"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. :)
yeah i agree.. children that young should not suffer that much pain.. at least we should be grateful with the life we are living now and we shouldn't take it for granted.. Who knows, someday you could work in some country and make a difference with child labor :)
ReplyDeleteUntil today's class (November 17th, 2009), I did not realize how much of an impact child labor is. Children as young as six years old are being forced to work in order to pay off debts or simply to get a day's worth of food. This is happening all over the world, even in America. Why is this happening? When I was six, my childhood consisted of laughter, adventures, happiness, charades, and more. I cannot imagine being put to work from the early morning until dark. I do not think my body could take the sweat and blood that is involved with child labor. I was a skinny child! Put me to a day's work where I have to smash rocks to powders, I would break my arm! I am sadden by the knowledge that the clothes I wear and the things I use could be made from children somewhere in the world who are working to earn not even a dollar to satisfy the needs of others. I believe that with enough effort and willpower, I can change my habit by educating myself which clothes and goods are child labored - free.
ReplyDeleteLike Sericia says, education is the key. If we could spread awareness to the parents, children, and the community the severity of child labor and what harmful consequences that could happen, the number of child labor may decline.
I believe the parents who do not have their education yet need to encourage their children to go to school and learn an education. Maybe their dream is that the children will be succeed in education so they need to be responsible to tell the children to go to school. The parents realized that they should have learned an education before and felt guilty. The parents should not ignore education for children. If the children don't learn the education, how the children and parents understand how to write and read in the future.
ReplyDeleteMy grandpa doesn't know how to write and read. He quit school when he was 9 years old. He worked with his father a long time ago. Luckily, my grandma loved him and supported him for helping the bills, appointments for doctors or dentist, etc. But a negative problem is that my grandma has a lot of responsibilities to assit my grandpa. It is not easy for her, but she made a choice to help my grandpa no matter what.
That applies to me that I don't want to see the parents that they are not educated yet and don't want to affect on their children to become uneducated, too.
Child labor is a really big issue these days. I know because I wrote my paper on it! It is sad that traditions pull children in child labor and most likely trap them in that cycle for the rest of their lives. I know your struggle about buying products and wanting to stop buying products because they use child labor. My question is if we stop buying it will that really stop them from working? There are two reasons why I think it won’t happen. One is that there are billions of other people buying products and the other reason is that there will always be some other kind of job that they will find to keep working. Your frank statement about uneducated parents is pretty straightforward. Sometimes parents in poverty do not decide to have children, they just happen get pregnant. They may not be educated enough about using birth control or not educated enough think about the consequences of children. Maybe they just want somebody to love and someone to love them back?
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