Why is child labour bad?.?

Answer 1

It's normally used to describe forced labor by children in less than healthy conditions. Think the children in factories during the industrial revolution.

Answer 2

That's a really complicated question.

In many countries (even our own) children have been exploited for profit. More often by businesses but in some cases by parents & guardians as well. This is where it's bad.

But if a family is starving (mostly in third world nations) or desperately poor (some spots in Appalachia as well) often the parents are either disabled (due to the environment created by industry) or their pay so low everyone who can must work for all to survive.

Like illegal immigrants businesses often exploit children for a higher profit margin w/o any regard for their well being. Before child labor laws it wasn't unusual to see a kid 12 yrs. old working in a coal mine. A job that can be deadly dangerous even for adults. When I was 14 I was paid $1. an hr. under the table to wash dishes in a restaurant by hand (1970s). But if I hadn't there wouldn't have been any money for food or things I needed at school. Food stamps (a couple of yrs. later) helped some but the way they figured out the need was so pathetic I was only able to stop working a few less hrs. a week.

I knew other kids doing hard manual labor for what I was making. But since it was a government program to help the poor it was condoned. Kinda like welfare reform for adults now. They usually put you in some grunt job (janitor, gopher, etc.) in a non-profit 5 days a week, 4 hrs. a day and call it training. Give you $3. for transportation unless w/i a mile from home (in parts of Appalachia town is a half hour or more drive & no public transportation) and give you $4. extra a day & let you keep your welfare check which in many states is barely over $200. a month & $50. more for each kid. Alot of these areas don't have public housing or decent paying jobs or healthcare either so it's not a case of being lazy. So often the older kids will babysit, help on a farm or whatever they can do to bring in a few more dollars. W/o it the families have to do w/o even the most basic needs.

So I can see the pros & cons. No child should ever have to work to help provide for their family. But it beats going hungry, w/o basic healthcare or homeless. Plus if a child wants to work to earn money towards something special he should be allowed to as long as it isn't dangerous or interfere with his/her education. We need child labor laws but greater oversight on businesses that would exploit them.

Answer 3

Its very cruel to the kids. When they should be getting a good education. They will be growing up with there whole life uneducated and not making money just barely enough to
support family. Also they are getting pay less because of there young age. In many cases, the parents of a child cannot find jobs because they are scarce, forcing them to make their children work instead.

For some poor families, the government does not provide education, health care, or a way for them to earn money to get out of their poverty. This can force them to send their children to work. Some families even believe that child labor is not harmful to a child, encouraging them to send their children to work.

They should really banned it from other countires. Make all the adults work not the childern!

Answer 4

Child labor is bad because people discriminate children. They make them work and treat them bad. Child lab our dont get paid like adults. Child labour is bad because a child deprived of childhood, education and goes through mental trauma. Today's child is tomorrow's citizen. So in any country if you have good citizen then save your children today. Give them good education and good environment. A good childhood is a base for tomorrow's happy life

Answer 5

Uh, Spook, if you weren't a moron you'd know that's the continental spelling of the word. Sit down before you hurt yourself.

Now to answer the question--

It's only recently that Western cultures have gotten rid of child labor. I'm wondering if the rest of the world isn't just lagging behind in that respect, or if cultural differences don't make it a bad thing in the other countries where it does happen.

Answer 6

Some of the children that are forced to work, do not get enought to eat, or have warm clothes, and have to work sometimes up to 16 to 18 hour days. They don't earn any money, except to pay for their keep. All the profits go to the owners. Some of these kids are only 8 years old. Put yourself in their place when you where that age and tell me what is wrong with that.

Answer 7

Child and labour shouldn't be in the same sentence. That's a start.

Answer 8

What about Child Labor is not bad? A child should be assigned chores, but their bodies are not strong like an adults and it is not good for them, neither physically or mentally. If children were actually able to do everything adults do, they would have been doing it.

Answer 9

The conditions are appalling; filthy and harsh, the work often dangerous and the hours can stretch to twelve hour days and longer. The children are being deprived of education, playtime, a normal childhood and health care. They sometimes are injured, maimed and die as a direct result of forced labor. Any more questions?

Answer 10

Because I a certain age, you are not meant to work a job and before chld labors laws were in effect, child labor was a major problem around the world!