Background of the Study Child labour is a worldwide problem regardless of the economic status of a country. This social phenomenon continues to exist both in developed and developing countries. The Philippines as one of Newly Industrializing Countries‚ also encounters the same (C. Diaz‚ personal communication‚ December 7‚ 2009). Child labour is rampant in this country due to poverty. It deprives basic right to education and health (Philippine Star‚ 1993). Many child labourers are forced to stop
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being promised a better life. Second‚ West Africa produces seventy percent of the world’s chocolate therefore they need many people to work so the percent of kids working drastically goes up. Third‚ many organizations are trying to lower the number of child laborers in West Africa. Chocolate production in India has an impact on many children in West Africa today. Firstly‚ production in West Africa has an impact on children from poor families in West Africa today. Children in West Africa from ages five
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According to NSO Survey‚ in the year 2011 the population of child labor grew up to 3 million compared in the year 2001 that has 2.4 million population of child labor. 25% of the population are doing hazardous jobs that can harm them. Many laws had been passed but the population of child labor still increases. Child labor refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood‚ their ability to attend regular classes‚ and totally dangerous for them. In the developing
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The child labor has been a controversial issue in China over the past ten years. According to the World Bank‚ ten million children below the age of 16 are employed illegally in factories‚ coalmines‚ and construction agencies across different provinces in China (2010). Even though there are some regulations enforced by the Chinese government to try decrease the number of children workers in cities‚ there is still a large number of families taking the risk of losing their children by sending them to
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The Effects from Drug Use‚ Drinking‚ and Smoking While Pregnant Women who are pregnant or wanting to become pregnant should not drink‚ smoke‚ or abuse drugs. Abusing these substances could cause substantial harm and have serious side effects on the child from the time it is in the womb to post birth. Each of these harmful substances could entail damaging consequences if a child has exposure to them in utero. This can lead to physical‚ emotional‚ learning‚ and social impairments for a child.
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“The object of employing children is not to train them‚ but to get high profits from their work‚” wrote Lewis Hine. Child labor was and still is real. People shouldn’t buy products that were manufactured from child labor. People shouldn’t buy products manufactured from a child with child labor because those children are being deprived of many things in life because of child labor. Children are deprived of their childhood and most of all their education. Although‚ some say that children go to work
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Cultural Relativism and Child Labor Child Labor The use of child labor in developing nations is not a moral issue‚ it is a cultural one. International corporations should not let the moral argument or current legislation such as the Child Labor Deterrence Act (CLDA) influence how and where they conduct operations. Grounded in what appears as legitimate concern for children‚ proposed legislation such as the CLDA hinder the potential growth and progress of developing nations by limiting the number
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children who died from work injuries were agricultural workers. These children’s are not protected by US labor law because of laws in United States. The law says that with parental permission‚ children as young as twelve can be hired for an unlimited number of hours (outside of school hours) on a farm of any size. There is no minimum age for children to work on small farms. Although child labor laws have been well enforced in the US‚ thousands of children‚ especially Hispanics‚ work in arduous agricultural
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Child Labor in America Throughout the 1700’s and the early 1800’s child labor was a major issue in American society. Children have always worked for family businesses whether it was an agricultural farming situation or working out of a family business in some type of workplace. This was usually seen in families of middle or lower class because extra help was needed to support the family. Child labor dramatically changed when America went through the Industrial Revolution. When America’s industrial
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Child Labor Have you heard of one of the causes of why children and adults died in the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s? Child labor was terrible and needed to be stopped. In the 1800 and 1900’s‚ children were forced to work in factories in America. Child labor was hazardous and awful‚ and many actions were taken to improve working conditions and save the lives of children. In the 1800 and 1900’s‚ working conditions were deadly and cruel. First‚ many kids were working barefoot. They were barefoot
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