Child slavery is one of the largest international issues we have today; it is such an exacerbated issue that it is one of the first issues causing international attention to be abolished (Glind). Many people believe slavery has been eradicated and no longer exists, but this idea could not be more erroneous. According to antislavery.org, in multiple forms of slavery, there are over 8.4 million child slaves in the world today (Antislavery.org). There are many different forms of child slavery. Some of these forms are child work, forced labor, child trafficking, child marriage, debt bondage, and the worst form of all, children working in hazardous conditions that threaten their health (Antislavery.org). According to this fact, child slavery
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This slavery movement at first was only accepting adults because of their ability to work harder, so this caused farmers in the western world to not desire children (Vasconcellos). As the 18th century emerged, planters desired children to a greater extent because of many reasons; one reason planters desired children is because they would be able to work for a longer amount of time. Based on the risk, investment and profit of trading children in the slave trade, this problem boomed (Vasconcellos). Not only has child slavery been an issue in Africa, but also in modern times, child slavery has made its way all across the globe from Sudan, Ghana, and Guinea (Spaulding, 2010) to Haiti, Asia, and the US (Evil, …show more content…
By educating the public, especially places susceptible to child slavery the problem can become more prevalent therefore becoming solved. Enforcing laws and states supervising each other, the global community can rid the world of this horrid bug. And finally providing basic needs for children will create a sound basis to build the next generation up on. All of these solutions can help get liberated from a problem that has been around forever and currently affects 8.4 million children. If nothing is done these children continues to be victims of the entire process (There is no end to child
This slavery movement at first was only accepting adults because of their ability to work harder, so this caused farmers in the western world to not desire children (Vasconcellos). As the 18th century emerged, planters desired children to a greater extent because of many reasons; one reason planters desired children is because they would be able to work for a longer amount of time. Based on the risk, investment and profit of trading children in the slave trade, this problem boomed (Vasconcellos). Not only has child slavery been an issue in Africa, but also in modern times, child slavery has made its way all across the globe from Sudan, Ghana, and Guinea (Spaulding, 2010) to Haiti, Asia, and the US (Evil, …show more content…
By educating the public, especially places susceptible to child slavery the problem can become more prevalent therefore becoming solved. Enforcing laws and states supervising each other, the global community can rid the world of this horrid bug. And finally providing basic needs for children will create a sound basis to build the next generation up on. All of these solutions can help get liberated from a problem that has been around forever and currently affects 8.4 million children. If nothing is done these children continues to be victims of the entire process (There is no end to child