Children in Labor

Think about it, you hear it blaring on the news all the time and you think to yourself “Oh gosh, that’s horrible…” Well, obviously, you haven’t heard the whole story. Everyday, millions of children are forced into labor in many different areas just so they can provide enough food for their families to eat, many areas of which are very harmful and hazardous to kids under the age. I don’t know about you, but I think that’s just terrible! Nobody should have to suffer this. Yet, people sit around ungrateful for what they have and think nothing of it. To where these kids, who have to work for food, appreciate that they can get a job and earn extra pocket money. They appreciate, they understand.

Most Americans don’t take what they have; they want more, and more. We Americans are lucky, though. We have doctors and nurses who treat our sicknesses or injured bodies. But the children who work their fingers to the bone always injure their bodies and also increase the chance of dieing. Still, they have no medical help whatsoever. Sure, they may have band-aids, but that doesn’t exactly count. Child labor also causes results of four year old children being tied to rug looms to keep them from running away and to seventeen year olds helping on a farm instead of being in school getting an education. So those seventeen year olds will never get a good paying job to help their families survive. Child labor can also pull children away from other children and their families because they’re always kept so busy. One little girl is in child labor and only had her parents visit her twice! She also lives with five other families, yet they never talk to her. How would you like it if no one talked to you just because you have to do labor?

This is why child labor is so wrong to me. Children need to be outside having fun with friends not doing labor. The least you could do is respect a child you know who is in child labor, let them know that they’re worth it or you could donate a little money to the children to help them get out of this dilemma. Child Labor is a cruel situation to be in, so people should think twice about forcing children into labor.

Heaven H.