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Brain teaser 2 A family has four children. Their two eldest, a boy and a girl, are of primary-school age. The parents need help at home as well as extra income. Should they send both their eldest children to school? 1| 2|3|4|5|6|7| Next >>
A girl fills a bucket of water
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Rebecca, 12, fills a 20-liter bucket of water near her home in the southern Malawi


"It would be OK to talk about the right to go to school," the parents might say, "if we had plenty of money. But the reality is that we cannot afford to send both children to school. The first consideration must be to make sure the family is fed and healthy, and to do that, one child must help at home, looking after the younger children, so the mother can go out to work."

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