In the issue of child labor we have to know the causes to come up with the solution. The main cause of child labor is poverty. If poverty is the cause to child labor then there needs to be a plan for it to end.
To end this poverty we should start by spreading awareness to those who could actually take acting in changing the problem. The most important people that awareness should be brought up to is the government of those place that struggle with poverty. As soon as the government is aware they should start off by supporting those families that are in need. A way they can support these families is by rebuilding the unsanitary places these families live in. The children are working because their families do not have the money to spend to send their kids to school. To make is possible for the children to go to school without families having to worry about the money is by getting the government in those counries to make school affordable for the families with the little money that they make. The next step into solving poverty is providing some type of health care for those poor communities. In the working areas these children work the environment is not very healthy. With the health care being available others can help out in making a building small clinics for those in need. Another way the government can help the families with little money is giving them opportunities to get better jobs tha pay a more reasonable amount of money. The jobs that these families have is barely enough to feed themselves and their whole familes. To solve the issue of child labor we have to look at the problem of poverty and how to stop that is stop child labor
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The world issue of child labor has its own affects. Education is something that is effected by child labor.
In the text Child Labor and Household Composition: Determinants of Child Labor in Mexico, the author talks about the chooses that have to be made. The author talks about the chose "between investing in education or not". In this quote the authors meaning that the families have to make the chose of spending the little money they have on the child going to school or to send them to work. In some cases this can be an obvious chose because some families might need that extra money. The author also talks about parents and child having to see whether the child has a better opportunity in doing good in school. If not then it would be better for the child to just work, "depend on the opportunity they have". It's not just the parents having to decide in spending on them going to school or not. They also have to think if the child will have a good opportunity in school. The opportunities aren't the only thing that is thought of but also the "long-term benefit their child can obtain". Having to think about the advantages that they will getting out of by going to school. In Child Labor and School Achievement in Latin America, the author talks about the "child labor lowered study time". Those students that have an education by going to school don't have the time to focus on their school work. The child is more focused in their job and getting the extra money. If the child is not able to focus on school it minimizes their opportunity in going far in school and their benefits. The author also explained how the parents would prefer the child going to work "because of poor academic preference". If parents see the child doing poorly they would rather not spend on them going to school. In the articles Child Labor and Household Composition: Determinants of Child Labor in Mexico, and Child Labor and School Achievement in Latin America is helps explain the affects child labor has on education. Child Labor is the use of children in industry or business, especially when illegal or considered inhumane. This issues has both positive that come out of it as well as negative. It was said that in 1995 children of ages five to fourteen from all the world 120 million of them were working.
The children are not working in the most safest or healthy environment. Children was working in hazardous work areas and are are risking themselves to get in an accident and getting injured. The working areas are affecting their health because of the heavy things they work with and the thing they have to carry around. The work areas are the most sanitary and are causing them to get sick. Their bodies are not yet well develop for the environment they are in. These risks are no problem for the kids. It's more important for them to get money and to be able to help economically in their homes. Most of the places in the world that have child labor problems are those place where people live in poverty. These families can only realie on what comes home to survive and get was is needed. It doesn't matter what job is had to be done as long as it's help family. Many are trying to figure out what should be done to stop or at least minimize child labor. Because children are doing this to help their families they think that helping them out will help them to stop working. They can help out all those places with poverty. They also want to children to go to school and get an education instead of working all day. |
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