Stuff and Children Exploitation

Stuff and Children Exploitation

Child Labour

Look around you. Look at the stuff that you have and the stuff that you’re wearing. Have you ever wondered where they were produced? How they were produced? And most importantly, who produced them? Believe it or not, more than half of the stuff that you have went through the process of child labour. In definition, Child labour is work that is done by children under the age of 15, which restricts or damages a child’s physical, emotional, intellectual, social and spiritual growth. Globally 218 million children are child labourers, and 126 million of these children are engaged in hazardous work. There are three ways that a child can become a child labourer. The first way is when a child inherits a dept carried by his or her parents. The second way is when a child is used as collateral for a loan. The third way is when a child is sold by his or her parents for money. Most of the child workers are centered in the Asia-Pacific region, where nearly 125 million children are in the labour force. Some important factors that keep children out of school and in the labour force are social inclusion and discrimination. These factors are a result of poverty, and ethnic & gender biases. These children often work under conditions that are both unhealthy and potentially dangerous. They are also abused, both physically and sexually, by their employers. In the child labour ring that was exposed in China, Children from poor inland areas were forced to work more than 300 hours a month. Most of these children showed signs of abuse from their employers. The Chinese company used child labour in order to manufacture Olympic merchandize for the Beijing Olympics. These are innocent children who are being robbed of their freedom to work in harsh conditions. This is very immoral and wrong. Child labour is not necessary for economic growth and improvement of standard of living in developing countries.

Child labourers, who work in harsh conditions and get abused by their...

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