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Sammi
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Child Labour - A Necessary Killer
September 3, 2008 - 01:14 PM
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With regard to the responses I have observed on this very site I am surprised that many of us still lack the much needed know-how on child rights. This on one hand becomes a useful indicator on how we were brought up. SHe that has experienced the humiliation and continues to see it thrive despite a resolution by goverments across the world to work out and implement policies to phase out child labour really knows where it pains. We took it as part of our culture and a significant step towards maturity. What did it lead to? We were deprived of the precious formative years. Child labour has contributed to rising young generation global unrest. I'll illustrate this to create the right picture.
1. An illiterate persons engage into parenthood without carefully sorting issues out. They conceive as if there is competition and give birth to more than they can comfortably raise.
2. Harsh economic conditions force the guardians to let the children to fend for themselves at a very early age and thus exposing themselves to the very dangers we are trying to protect them from.
3. Well-up persons find it cheap and reasonable to acquire cheap labour due to low disposable income. *Remember these people do not give the opportunity to the kid since their interest is to have their work done and nothing more.
4. The employed child grows up having the mentality that the employer is a saviour rather than a criminal. The employer-turned-killer decides to keep such a child in hisher custody silently while taking his children to school and proper health medicare and even to recreation centres.
5. The abused child matures into illiteracy and the whole vicious cycle begins all over again.
That is a residantial house set-up. Think of the vast commercial set-ups like agricultural, manufacturing, processing, service provision sectors.
Increase in this illiterate population is what leads to unrest because in view of globalisation they are the younger and the majority. Unskilled labour is virtually irrelevant but comprises of the majority and the poorly emunerated. increased cost of living makes a good portion indulge into crime to make ends meet. We deny them livelihoods if we don't give them jobs yet we strangle them by giving them too little wages.
This war can only be won by looking at it from all perspectives. Tackle it from parenthood down the ladder to childhhood. My vision for children goes on.
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David Miao
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Re: Child Labour - A Necessary Killer
September 4, 2008 - 08:27 PM
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Is child labour truly necessary, as much as it might be true that the parents of the children performing child labour are forced into having children fend for themselves, aren't companies that employ these children and the governments of those countries, as well as global citizens at fault for the situation these children are in? Isn't it true that we do not, in fact, need child laborers, and that the situations we put these children in are poor and their basic rights as children are neglected?
First of all the environment in which these children work are dangerous for the children, and most times they are only paid a couple of cents, for hours of work. So the companies employing these children are only ensuring that these children continue to be in a poverty cycle and continue to work for them. They expose this oppurtunity since labor in other countries is more expensive, and the profit they will attain from employing child laborers is hefty.
In general as global citizens, are we not all at fault? If we did not want our NIKE shoes, or our brand name clothing the use of child laborers would decrease.
So in fact, child labour is not necessary, companies make it necessary so they can earn more profit, governments make it necessary because they to not protect the rights of these children, and we make it necessary because we turn a blind eye to these situations just so we can have our material goods.
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