Many people thought Child Labor was right, but it was wrong in my opinion. Child labor has been around for a long time. Parents had been sending their children to work on a farm or a factory for a long time. Also, the owners of the factory thought that children can operate a machine and didn’t need adult strength to do that job. People hired children because they were cheaper than adults. A lot of children started working at the age of 7. They had no time to sleep, play, and go to school. A lot of the children turned very sick.
In my opinion child labor was bad because why would the parents want the children to work and get sick, but it was for one reason they needed money. Children that worked in factories had to work 12 to 18 hours a day, 6 days a week, to just earn a dollar. I don’t think it was right that they made the children work. Then again, that was a lot of money back then. Sometimes parents couldn’t support their children so they turned in the children to mills and factory owners, this is terrible for me because what would the children think that their parents didn’t want them anymore.
In conclusion, child labor is terrible. My opinion stays the same because on what I have read. Child labor is terrible because on what children had to go through to work. Children should have been able to sleep, play, and go to school, but instead they had to go to work. For me I couldn’t imagine how parents can give their children away. Also, how can children work in dark, dirty, and damp factories. If somebody could have stopped child labor it would be totally different. If they changed it then the parent could have worked and the children could have stayed and helped out in the farm, but that is only my opinion. Do you think child labor is right or wrong?
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