Childhood is No Time For Fun

Would you have liked it if your whole childhood was just working and never have time to play? I am sure all of the people who answer this question would answer it with a no but some kids in this world don’t have a choice. In Asia, Latin America, and Africa 250 children between the ages of five through fourteen already work. At least 120 of them work for full time and can’t go home or go to school. These jobs hurt them physically and mentally. I think that child labor should be stopped immediately because kids are not meant to do work when they are young. They’re supposed to learn, go to school, and play.

It is not fair for children to work full time or to even work at all because they can’t go to school and get an education for the future. Education helps them by improving there health, safety, and will be able to work and get money when older. School is a big part in life and these children can’t even go. The types of jobs the kids are being forced to do is like cruelty, they are being used for drug trafficking, sale and trafficking, forced to fight (Military) and a lot more horrible jobs. All of these jobs harm there health, safety, and morals. They don’t even get to go home because they work so much or either work full time. They need their family and need love. There parents visit them only twice a week which isn’t really a lot of time to spend time with them.

All of those things hurt them and will reflect them in there future so it should be stopped, there are really no positive sides to it. If you think this is unfair for children and you live in the United States you should check the labels on the product you are going to buy before getting it and see if the country that made it uses child labor, if it does then don’t buy it that way they will stop this. As Sultana, a twelve-year garment factory worker from Bangladesh, Thailand says, "Why do we have to pay the price of poverty? We didn't create poverty, adults did."

Stefany R.