Child Labor Ruining Childhoods
Child Labor is a big issue in factories right now. Children should not have to work at such a young age. In addition, if they are going to work then they should not have such low wages and long hours. I believe that there needs to be a national law that prohibits child labor. I believe this because child labor is stopping children from going to school and stopping them from getting an education.
In addition, the bad working conditions are causing children to catch diseases more often and earlier than they normally would. Some children even have to work in mines. This is really bad for their health. It does not make sense to me why so many children would be working when we have such an abundant population, willing to work. Since so many kids are working, many adults are unemployed. It does not make sense to me for kids to be working while the adults are sitting at home doing nothing. Instead of this, I think that the adults should be working while the children should be going to school.
However, this isn’t the only cause of the problem. When the families are poor, the children have to work to help support the children. In order to fix this, factories should pay workers more. The government tried to ban child labor, but had difficulty. I do not understand why anyone would oppose them, because why would anyone want a bunch of kids working all the time.