Child Labor Good or Bad?
When is the line drawn amid okay and not okay child labor?
What is child labor?
- Someone working under the age of 15.
- One third of parents handed kids over
- 86% of 229 girls
- 250 million kids age 5-14- (61% Asia, 32% Africa, 7% Latin America and Carribian)
- elementary age not allowed to work- if dangers health
- the labor could be traditions, lack of education, or because of a developing area
Even young children participate in child labor
Child Labor Index
A yound boy working
There are many dangers to child labor, here are just a few...
- girls become frightened to go home- afraid of 'aunties'
- shouted at
- 14-18 hours per day
- they don't get a lot of food
- bad treetment form their 'employers'
How could child labor be good? You may ask.
- Sometimes developing nations need the extra help from children
- kids need the work to survive
- children require less pay than adults
- kids are more docile
- countries defend child labor as a necessity
Boys in child labor
- harvesting crops
- going fishing
Two real stories of girls who were forced into child labor
[Another girl said:] "I couldn't sell of lot of fruit that day. I went back home and my auntie beat me because I didn't bring enough money. I ran away to cry behind the house. A man proposed that I spend that night with him and he would pay my auntie the money I owe. The following day, he brought me to a station where we took a bus for Equatorial Guinea [western Africa]. I worked a lot on a plantation and also acted as his wife. One day, I fled by going through the forest until Libreville [Gabon]. From there I was brought back to Benin."...
What else do kids in child labor do?
- 150000 work in heat- orange season, 12hours, 6month
- mining-one in every five girls and one in every six boys
My thoughts on the topic. (Answer to E.Q.)
Bibliogrophy
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