Child Labor Still Exist in Some Countries
UNICEF estimates that there are approximately 250 million children, ages 2 to 17, in child labor today. Although child labor is a practice considered exploitative by many developed countries and international organizations, poorer countries still accept the use of children in regular and sustained labor. Poor families often depend on their children to provide a very much needed income for survival. Some of the jobs performed by these children include working in sweatshops, agriculture, family businesses, selling food and wares in the streets, polishing shoes, cleaning and other menial and tedious jobs – all done for minimal pay and mostly in poor working conditions. But with the child’s income the only source of revenue for a lot of families, the governmental officials of these countries intentionally ignore the exploitation of the children.
Tags: Child Labor, exploitation, sweatshops, UNICEF
October 6th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
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