The full transcript and video of this report will be available Monday, July 19.

What are your kids doing this summer?

Swimming, playing, going to camp?

For some children in America -- hundreds of thousands of them -- summer means hard labor in the hot sun.

They're migrant laborers -- some as young as five or six -- working alongside their struggling parents on America's farms.

We took our cameras and spent months in the fields. What we found was a story of hardship, perseverance, and love. And sometimes a hard-won triumph over adversity. Watch the full hour here.

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Correspondent Dennis Murphy with "Children of the Harvest" on Dateline at 7/6 Central.

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