Blog #2

"Some common causes of child labor are poverty, parental illiteracy, social apathy, ignorance, lack of education and exposure, exploitation of cheap and unorganized labor. The family practice to inculcate traditional skills in children also pulls little ones inexorably in the trap of child labor, as they never get the opportunity to learn anything else" (http://www.childlabor.in/causes-of-child-labour.htm).

That's a shame. Children had to work for those common causes. I know those children did not want to work but they had to because they have no choices. There are some store companies that I buy and use, for instance, NIKE and ADIDAS. I like the quality and the comfort but unfortunately, children made them! Ugh, not a great feeling. Again, they had no choice but work due to those common causes and I can't help buying them! I am an awful and selfish person right here for continue buying Nike / Adidas stuff. I personally believe children should make their own decision if they want to work or not rather than force them. For parental illiteracy, it is like children are losing their opportunities for getting their education because they are stuck working?

Another statement that I agree,

"Illiterate and ignorant parents do not understand the need for wholesome proper physical, cognitive and emotional development of their child. They are themselves uneducated and unexposed, so they don’t realize the importance of education for their children" (http://www.childlabor.in/causes-of-child-labour.htm).

Uneducated parents know no shit about what their children needs, especially for their education needs. Poor them. Sometimes I questioned myself, why would parents who live in poverty decide to have children, if they knew they will have more mouths to feed, or put themselves and children with suffer. Now, for parents with no education, I understand if they wanted to have kids because they have NO idea what will happen later. The bottom line, everybody should get education, period.

I am out. :)

Blog #1: World Poverty

Wheey, my first blog! My first blog will be about world poverty.

World poverty is really tragic! There are thousands, I mean, million people are in poverty, even though there are plenty food in the world. “Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death for them and their families” (Breen, 2009). Out there in the world, children attend school to eat. It helps children to forget about hunger. Honestly, poor those children. I sometimes questioned myself, if the parents knew they are living in poverty lives, then why continue give births? They knew their children will suffer with hunger in severe poverty. One website even said that poverty is one the global issues, then, do something about it? Eh, there are many organizations trying to reduce / stop poverty but apparently, it is hard. Nothing have changed yet. “But deeper and more global causes of poverty are often less discussed” (Shah, 1998). I can’t imagine watching my children dying from poverty, to be specific, hunger. Over 25 thousand children die every year from poverty. Children are our future and this need to stop!

Credits go to:
http://www.poverty.com/
and
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty