Child Labor A Tragedy That Touches All

Child labor is work performed by children under the age of 18 ( depending on the country) that require a long hours on a regular full- time basis, abusive treatment by the employer, no access, or poor access to education, low wages. Child labor also includes selling things on the street or working in someone's house as a domestic servant. In these cases, it's not so much the work itself that's bad, but how the child is treated, how many hours a day they work, and the work prevents school attendance. In the worst cases, children are trapped in these situations by debts or are out right slaves.

Child labor is a growing problem that seems to be going nowhere, there are 225 million child laborers in the world that’s about a ten million increase from 2004 in that’s an estimate then there are the classifications of the child workers. This article will deal with the worst and ugliest forms of child labor those who work and extremely hazardous and exploited conditions. From the four-year-old that was sold into bonded labor by his mother in tied to a rug loom at a carpet factory in Pakstatin, to the little girl who picks cotton in Africa twelve hours a day.

The other worst type of child labor is called "unconditional worst forms." That means that no matter what the circumstances are, not matter how much is paid or how little the child does, it is illegal-even for adults. Every effort must be made to end this form of labor. This includes slavery, the buying and selling of a human being (called "human trafficking"), forced or bonded labor, using children in armed conflict, prostitution, pornography, and involvement in drugs or any other illegal activity.

The cycle of poverty is one of the reason child labor is possible in some region of the world, for example, in some Southeast Asian countries it’s more beneficial to send the children to be pedal on the street they can make more sales. Another example of poverty is the selling of children you will find this practice happening all over of the world but; the story of a four- year old Pakistani boy who was sold to a rug factory owner stands out his mother was poor her son was the only thing she had of value. To end child labor the cycle of poverty must be broken.

From this cycle of poverty, you get what’s called unconditional the worst form of child labor in the US alone there are 325,000 child prostitutes, there are estimated to be 2.5 million in the world. “Sex and Slavery and the World’s Children: A Heart for Justice .org Estimates there are “2.5 million child sex slaves in the world today some as young as 4 and 5” sexual deviants have very little heart it could be said or is it just no regard for the young. Eighty percent of these victims are young girls but do not exclude young boys its estimated boys only make up “5 to 10 percent that put the numbers in the hundreds of thousands “ sex trafficking must be stopped if the world's children are to cease being at risk.”Sex crimes are just one of the risk faced by the children, there are many others.

Child labor has many effects on children it’s the worst form of psychological abuse a child can face their the story of a little African girl who was sent to the cotton fields and lost all her dreams, day by day hour by hour. Clarisse’s was her name her cotton would go into Victoria's secrets products to fulfill the dreams of others why Clarisse’s earns two dollars a day.

These are just a few tidbits of the tragedy known as child labor and the risk the children face join the cause to end child labor speak out every child has a right not to work and to get an education.

.