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Child Labor and the Poverty Cycle

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Child labor is a serious subject that exists today around the world. A projected 120 million children globally work every day, often at the cost of their teaching, health and natural growth. Additional 130 million kids are said to work part-time, attempting to combine education (World Vision, 2001). Today, child labour is prohibited in most developing countries such as Canada and the United States. There are strict rules that control the type of jobs, hours, and salaries that children have if they do work. Some feel that child labour is ethically wrong and that children should not work, no matter how poverty troubles their families. Some large corporation’s e.g: NIKE support child labour, and claim that it is respectable because it gives families who are suffering from poverty a source of income and keeps manufacture prices low. No matter in which perspective you support, child labour does negatively affect children in evolving regions, mentally, sensitively, and economically risks future opportunities to break the cycle of poverty. In my perspective, the physical dangers related with child labour often go beyond the ethical implications. Dangerous and unfair work has a negative impact on child's mental happiness. Children get paid very slight amount of money and They work for very long hours in very unsafe conditions. Child labour exists in workshops, mines, and several other hazardous places where a child could get easily wounded. Child labourers are aware with broken arms and many other dangerous injuries, directly affected from the dangerous situations at their workplaces. In many circumstances, children are involved in labour and they will suffer with a lower IQ, mental damage and cruelty, low confidence, slight or no learning, and lack of adequate care (U.S. Fund for UNICEF, n.d.). When children are needed to work at an early age, they can also develop serious problems. “Health problems are compounded for children because t

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