The ABC news clip online centered a grave looking, plastic surgery hackneyed pretty boy with every hair in place claiming that FLDS puts its boys to work in the fields to help provide for the community when they become teens. They portrayed an FLDS website describing the children's daily routines as "propaganda."

It occurred to me that those 13 year old boys were probably tougher and heartier than the pampered, powdered anchor.
 
The story called the boys' work "child labor," and as I watched the clip I thought to myself, that's what my dad did to help his family when he was a boy. He worked for the family business delivering ice blocks early in the morning, to ranches and farms. Who is pedaling the propaganda?

Then I wondered: are these boys' peers better off in the larger culture who are not working?