Child Labour Is Wrong

Imagine a skinny boy lying on the floor. His ribs are showing and his face is dehydrated. His family is in the same condition, not even fighting for life anymore. They are too poor to keep going and too weak to keep trying. Child labor has helped many families get through with enough money to survive. It’s sometimes not even illegal in some countries, having the minimum age at 10-14 years of age. The economy of the companies also help the families in need, hiring their children for the money they desperately desire. Some worldwide companies have gotten in trouble for using child labor, for consumers started to boycott products made by children. This raises a question for many people: is boycotting the right thing to do? Child labor has been
According to John H. Cushman, Jr. who published an article on the New York Times, “companies pay workers in China and Vietnam less than $2 a day and workers in Indonesia less than $1 a day...critics say workers need to make at least $3 a day to achieve adequate living standards.” These hard-working people have very low wages forcing their children to help out for the family's survival. In pakistan the per capita--amount of money made per household--is low at about $2,800 which “commonly drives children to work” as stated by David Montero in his article “Is Doing the Right Thing Wrong?” $2,800 probably can’t maintain a whole family in a household which surely makes children work. Families can’t live with this amount of money everyday, and so couldn’t anyone.
Nike for example, cut their deal with Saga which “accounted for $33 million of the industry’s $210 million total.” As stated by Montero. Saga is a huge business which supports many families that need child labor. As many as “20,000 families would get affected” with the deal Nike ended and “%70 percent of the local market relies on them [child labor] for work.” according to Saga’s estimate. I understand that many consumers may want to boycott these companies’ products using child labor; however, a boycott might hurt many of these poor families, therefore leading to more child labor in possibly harsher working conditions based on their desperate need for work. Consumers need to take into consideration how their actions might benefit everyone not just the children. A worldwide boycott on an immense business could turn out catastrophic throughout the world because consumers thought they were doing the “right