Bangladesh employs millions of children, many in hazardous jobs, to help their families survive poverty. This 101 East episode from Al Jazeera follows the government's plan, announced the previous year, to end all child labor under age 14 by 2015, and asks whether that goal is realistic in a country where families have relied on children's wages for generations. It revisits the 1993 US Child Labor Deterrence Act as a cautionary example: when it pushed roughly 50,000 Bangladeshi children out of garment factories overnight, many ended up in worse work, including stone-crushing and prostitution. Social commentators interviewed argue there are cultural reasons child labor persists, including a belief that early work trains children for adulthood and keeps them out of crime. The film weighs policy against practice, showing why bans alone have failed before and what officials are trying differently this time. It won the Best Short Documentary award at China's Gold Panda Awards.