According to the International Labor Association, child labor is “work that harms children’s well-being and hinders their education, development, and future livelihoods.” Child labor is an obvious problem when children are put into strenuous working conditions, facing with a high injury rate, and are deprived from an education. The Human Rights Watch investigated child laborers in Egypt, Ecuador, India, and the United States. They proved that children working in agriculture are endangered and exploited daily. Even in these four different countries, risks and abuses are extremely similar. Egypt’s cotton industry was part of the Human Rights Watch’s investigation.
JeBari Lewis May 30, 2015 The children featured in Waiting for Superman are the epitome of the issues that plague their communities negatively affecting their education. Personal issues and a flawed education system go hand in hand. Personal issues that each of the featured children faced was crippling poverty. Their situation was made more dire by the fact they were surrounded by uneducated people who had often resulted to crime as a means to elevate their position in life or drugs to escape the reality of their position in life. Their impoverished communities resulted in less taxpayer dollars to fund the school which in educating the students would be able to provide the children with a chance at succeeding and eventually funneling
He argues that children who are living in these cities need the most help, racism is the cause of the in equality in schools, and more funding could be extremely beneficial to the students, schools, and communities but the media and politicians will not allow it. His discoveries are shocking but true. The first city Kozol tells the reader about is East St. Louis. The inner city is filthy and lies on a flood plain. Major companies built factories here and drain their waste into the city causing the children who live here to be at risk for many illnesses.
There was sickness and hunger and most of people’s children die before they reach adulthood. The Puritan did everything they could just to survive the difficulty of setting up the colony. It may be because this hardship and struggle that the puritans develop their negative outlook on life. Their need for a God to save them to get through the struggle of the day. It can also explain their belief in superstition and fear of things like witches.
With regards to child labor, these countries need to take into consideration that in most countries child labor is accepted to be bad. Child labor is very hazardous to these kids whom are not yet mentally and physically developed to perform the harsh duties of full time employment, these countries also deprive these kids of being able to attain an education; which will lead them to greater risk of living in poverty over the course of their life because they will not have any other skills that they would be qualified to obtain other jobs. Most countries that are involved in international trades have put laws in place to try to prevent these child labor practices. Even the United Nation (UN) has several international laws and treaties that are set in place to prevent such practices as well. Unfortunately there are still several countries that have child labor alive and well to this day.
In addition to this, another state policy was the Factory Act which saw the removal of young children from work, strict hours placed upon adolescents and compulsory education put into place. This effected society by presenting and supporting the idea of separateness and children’s need of education. Furthermore, Phillips, a new Right theorist, argues that children are vulnerable and in need of protection. They are too immature to make decisions about their lives, particularly as they have become increasingly important over the past 50 years. Increases in eating disorders and suicide show this.
One of the major negative effects of poverty to children is that they tend to dropout from school. Student dropouts lead to child labor because most of the children need to work in order to survive and help their families. Here in our country, there are kids who spends hours collecting trash in the dumpsites which they sell to junkshops. There are also indigent children who tend to steal things and money just for the sake of surviving. For the past years, there are many cases where children, at an early age steal things from other people.
Millions of people were thrown out of their jobs, and were left with no other options. Schools began to close; families were left homeless, wandering the streets. The elderly suffered because they had no money to live on. While Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) rushed to create more jobs, he also began to back an idea that would give aid to poor children and other dependent people (2). In FDR’s State of the Union address, he included that he planned on creating an old-age insurance program, federal unemployment and benefits for dependent people and poor single mothers with
School dropouts, which the experts appropriately name attrition, have been increasing suddenly. This issue in particular has been widely debated all over the world in order to find the appropriate solutions. People have come to understand the causes of attrition, which affect a wind range of children and teenagers, particularly in rural regions. Some statistics and strong evidence show that school dropouts can result from poverty, bad grades, and school’s location. Poverty is known to be the major cause of school dropouts.
Children cannot raise themselves. Without families, the odds are against them growing into productive citizens and the loss to society is devastating. Many children without parents don’t finish high school, they end up homeless and in our prisions. They are prime candidates for trafficking, prostitution, terrorists and becoming child soldiers. The loss of human potential is incalculable.