“To fight against child labor is to fight against global poverty.”
According to the ILO, the benefits of eradicating child labor would outweigh the costs by nearly six to one. There are about 168 million children that are engaged in the child labor during the year of 2013. Only one out of five gets paid for his or her work, and most of them perform unpaid family work. Many of these children work in the mining industry, which is also an industry that has the most dangerous for child laborers. Many of the parents in impoverished countries let their children work out of necessity, just because they were unable to sustain their families on their own incomes. Therefore, the parents thought that they have no other choice but to turn their children into laborers.
Child labor is wrong, and would never be condoned by anyone with a decent moral compass. It should never be done AT ALL. We think that even if the parents couldn’t support their families with the incomes they have, they should find out a way to support their families, not just send their children and turn them into child laborers. There must be other ways to solve these kinds of problems. Children, to us, are supposed to have a happy childhood, even if they’re poor. They shouldn’t be working at such a young age. One of the best ways to stop child labor is to provide fair wages and safe working conditions for parents so that they can provide for and support their families with the incomes they have earned.
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