Why It's Time To Legalize Child Labor

Imagine a community where children are seen picking shrimp and cotton in fields. Their entire bodies are covered with bruises and scratches from working. Trying to fight back tears, their eyes flutter trying to stay open and their faces ache with excruciating pain. These children are working for pay as low as a few cents a day and only a few hours of sleep, if any. This is the world of child labor. In the past, children involved in child labor often died because of the working conditions, which made the death rate twice more likely for them (Freedman 25). Due to the damage it does to kids’ bodies, the low opportunities for education, and how it is against children’s rights, child labor laws should be kept the same to allow kids to live healthy and freely. Child labor should remain illegal because it destroys their growing bodies and stable health. To begin, child labor in the past caused numerous injuries. The working children fell into machines, cut themselves with tools, or even damages their limbs just by working …show more content…
This is important because some families could not afford food for everyone. Also, the needed bills, like housing and electricity, were being paid with the small amount of extra money. So, with the money from their child’s work, they could pay for things with a little less stress. However, if child labor continued to be banned in America, kids could go to school. These hours where the kids are at school would continue to give parents time to work! Then, if both parents are working, then there is more pay, and their children could become more successful with more money in the future! Therefore, even though kids would be able to help their families become financially stable, education could be put in place giving parents working hours while the kids are supervised at