Varying Child Labor Laws

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Varying child labor laws and cultural views on the matter makes child labor not necessarily only a legal matter, but also a matter of morality and ethics. Some may argue that because child labor is a cultural norm in some countries, and not against their own laws, there is no problem to be fixed in the first place. As a predominant amount of child labor is outsourced to underdeveloped countries without our same labor laws that argument cannot be entirely disputed. However, as outsourcing causes much of the child labor that is taking place from the very countries where it is prohibited, it is clear that the laws themselves are not enough to cure the problem. A change in the child labor industry around the world can only occur when we look past

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