Today, child labor is illegal in most developed countries. There are strict laws that monitor the jobs, hours, wages, etc. that children have if they do work. An example of these laws, is one that requires all children to go to school until they are 16 years of age before they can drop out and b

Many parents make their children work because there are no alternate sources of income. In many economically depressed countries where child labor exists, there aren’t any welfare systems and easy access to loans. The money for these types of programs isn’t readily available. The shortage of money is due to the fact that there are economic problem within the country. Not all of the places where children work in third world countries are dangerous and dirty. Some major corporations move their businesses to places like Pakistan and China because the people there will work for less. Many times the people who work in these factories are children. Not all of these companies pay just a few cents a day though. Mattel, the maker of Barbie, is one of these corporations. In their factory based in Chagnan, China, workers are paid a $1.81 a day. (Holstein.) The factory they work in is also kept up to higher standards than most factories in China are. It is clean and they are very rarely forced to work in dangerous conditions.

“In Pakistan, I talked to a boy making bricks. He had been sold into labor by his grandfather to pay a debt. ‘Would you like to go to school?’ I asked him. ‘What is school?’ he asked me.” (Kielberger, 5.) In India, only 64% of males and 39% of females are literate. When children are forced to work at a young ag

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