Child Abuse
People in the rich world tend to assume that child labor, likeslavery, is something that was abolished a century ago and that now only exists in third world countries. This can not be any further from the reality of this issue. In fully developed countries like Canada and the United States, parents encourage their children to have a job at an early age, as a way of letting their children gain experience of the real world. Few people see it as exploite that a child should work (for example to have a paper route) even if they are paid less than adult wages and local child-labour laws are infringed by their working before seven in the morning and after seven o'clock in the evening. ‘Child labour' in general is too explosive and negative a word to be applied to all children workers. It is insulting to those whose lives are ruined by hard labor to lump them into the same category as those children who help out in the family shop after school. If people treat all work by children as equally unacceptable they are trivializing the whole issue and making it less likely to be able to root out the most damaging forms of child labor. It is simply the nature and conditions of children's work that determines whether they are e
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Approximate Word count = 2784
Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page double spaced)
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