. Child labor is a atrocious practice that specializes in the employment of children in a business or industry that harms them physical and mentally, or keeps the children from attending school. Underage children work in all sorts of settings, and usually are apart of large families and are extremely poor. Child labor involves threatening children physical, mental, or emotional well-being. Majority of child labor occurs in Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to the unethical side of child labor, it threatens the children’s mental and physical health, deprives them of their childhood and potentials, and removes the dignity and freedom of children. Therefore, we should not buy from countries that endorse child labor.
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There are so many forms of child labor that can put children in dangerous situations. For instance, child slavery, child prostitution, child soldiers, and child trafficking are all forms of child labor that have harmful effects on children. Organizations that fight to ban child labor should work together to unite to eradicate all forms of child labor to save children all over the world and provide for them an outlet to provide for their families as well as get the education each child deserves. Grace Abbot once said, “Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.” Quotes like this seem slightly disheartening to those trying to abolish child labor. In truth, we cannot stop child labor until we start at the center of it all-poverty. Because of all these facts provided, it is a given that we should not buy products from countries that endorse child labor, but rather join forces with NGO’s and put our money into places to promote education in places were child labor is evident. There are many ways to do this by going on mission trips and doing hands on things with the locals in those countries or through monetary donations to produce means of operation to fund schooling in factories, mines, or
There are so many forms of child labor that can put children in dangerous situations. For instance, child slavery, child prostitution, child soldiers, and child trafficking are all forms of child labor that have harmful effects on children. Organizations that fight to ban child labor should work together to unite to eradicate all forms of child labor to save children all over the world and provide for them an outlet to provide for their families as well as get the education each child deserves. Grace Abbot once said, “Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.” Quotes like this seem slightly disheartening to those trying to abolish child labor. In truth, we cannot stop child labor until we start at the center of it all-poverty. Because of all these facts provided, it is a given that we should not buy products from countries that endorse child labor, but rather join forces with NGO’s and put our money into places to promote education in places were child labor is evident. There are many ways to do this by going on mission trips and doing hands on things with the locals in those countries or through monetary donations to produce means of operation to fund schooling in factories, mines, or