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Because their parents do not earn enough to support them. It is a simple formula; smart, hardworking people create things that have greater value then they cost to make, and choose to use the proceeds to support their children through school. These educated children then repeat the cycle. Its not magic. Not everyone is smart enough to create more than they use, so they have nothing left for their children. By "smart," I don't mean simple genetics, but the sum of genetics and culture.

2007-01-05 05:32:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The correct answer is that the economies in such countries suffer from VERY LOW PRODUCTIVITY. That's a technical way of saying that the work available for people to do does not create much value. It's very low level work. Like subsistence farming, where you work all the time just to create enough food to stave off starvation.

As a result, entire families including the kids have to work in order to bring in enough food and basic staples to survive. Add to this cases of orphans and broken families and widowed mothers.

There is no magic bullet to solving this problem. If you send the kids to school, the family will begin to starve from the lack of their production. If you give such a country foreign aid, likely as not the corrupt dictator will steal it or use it for political manipulation, or it will become a weapon in tribal wars. (Such lousy places often seem to have dictators and tribes).

The only solution is gradual improvement in the country's average productivity. Realistically that will only happen if competent businesses from more developed countries are allowed to come in and provide work, build factories, establish their business practices, etc. Of course many people are strongly against this common sense improvement and demonize it as "globalization".

2007-01-05 10:13:02 · answer #2 · answered by KevinStud99 6 · 0 0

They need to support their parents or family. If they didn't then they would be out on the street and their families would disown the child for not providing! But the kids don't make much and that's about less than a dollar a day.

2007-01-05 05:36:11 · answer #3 · answered by Trapped in a Box 6 · 0 0

Children in 3rd world countries have to go out to work. In most cases, they live by themselves, and have to provide for thier siblings. Or their parents send the children out to work,because they can't. Its their cycle of life...and you really can't question it. Yes its sad, but you have to face the facts, they have been doing it for many many years...and that is all they know. The world isn't perfect, and there are somthings that we still don't understand, and prolly never will. You just have to sit back and wonder, and hope that things work out.

2007-01-05 05:38:04 · answer #4 · answered by Bevin M 3 · 1 0

The answer is very simple. Because all of these countries are so poverty-stricken, families will do absolutely anything in order to improve the family income. I'm not saying that it's right, but that's the way that it is.

2007-01-05 05:59:36 · answer #5 · answered by kravitz44 3 · 0 0

Probably for the same reasons they used to in the UK many years ago... because it is the done thing there and everyone accepts it. Also, they have to work ASAP so they can afford to live. No state handouts or welfare cheques out there. If they don't work they die...

2007-01-05 05:36:27 · answer #6 · answered by m3aab 1 · 1 0

they need to help their parents financially. most families have 8-9 kids because they cant afford contraceptives. the parents make $2/week so the older kids have no choice but to work and help the family live. its called survival.

2007-01-05 05:34:18 · answer #7 · answered by Miki 6 · 0 0

ignorance is bliss isn't it?

if it was that simple.. it wouldn't be happening... the problem would be solved.. they would have jobs and the country in question would be in a better state.

there's no work to be had in most of those places... that's why they're in the trouble they're in!

do some research.. moreso than just applying your own logic.

and it's results.. and solutions, by the way.....

2007-01-05 05:28:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Because they are pressed by the parents' responsibilities and made to feel responsible that their forth coming brought along poverty

2007-01-05 05:31:16 · answer #9 · answered by Lwangi 1 · 0 0

They do because Its just what they do and they need the money or labor.

2007-01-05 11:08:40 · answer #10 · answered by Neko 2 · 0 0

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