Children were often treated and used as if their sole purpose was to serve the world around them, and to accommodate the ever-thriving economy. Several philosophers such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Charles Webb, all rationalized that, “children worked under deplorable conditions and were being exploited by the industrialists.” These children worked in what they described as “dark satanic mill(s)”, where they were subjected to long hours, rare to no breaks, extremely low wages, and stuffy poorly lit factories, with neither adult supervision nor safety precautions. (Tuttle 2006)1. Children were deprived of their childhoods, due to the fact that their basic civil rights differed from that of an adult, “The legal fact that parents or guardians
