Can You Imagine Being 7 years old?

     Child Labor exist all over the world.  It is viewed as a positive thing from the point of view of the laborers.  But in the eyes of by standers like you and I and the children themselves, it is a negative thing to go through and to exist.  In the article Putting an End to Child Labor which is set in Busan,South Korea 127 million children were working in Asia in the year 2000.  In 2004 the numbers decreased by 3 million.Many children from ages 10 to 14 are doing hard labor.  From my research the child labor age limit is 14 and lower.   Maybe in certain countries the ages are different.Common places in Asia for children to work are carpet factories, brick plants and mines.  From the picture located in the article, a boy was sewing beads into Indian clothing,the caption said ''they work instead of going to school.  '' There are absolutely no good in child labor.If it's taking a child away from their family and education, then what good is it to put your life in danger when you've haven't even lived.

     Reasons why child labor takes place is because families cannot afford to pay bills with their job alone, so they send their kids to work.  As Americans we can look at child labor as something awful and disturbing because America has planted this bug in our heads that we have to have the ''American Dream'' and differentiated people(kids,adults).  It's all about the stereotypes and expectations of children and adults.  As for Asia, they see it as we all need to be working people and age isn't anything but a number.

    Today, child labor still exist but is not a severe issue that it was centuries ago but is still affecting millions of kids around the world.  Statistics from ILO (International Labor Organization) show since 2000 child labor declined by one third, going from 246 million to 168 million children.   In Latin America and in the Caribbean, there are 13 million children in child labor and in the middle east and North Africa, there are 9.2 million.

    Factories are a major source of air pollution.  Pollution may slow down or speed up global warming.  CO2 is a greenhouse gas that may cause global warming and was actually one of the reasons the climate was effected by the industrial revolution.  With factories growing and beginning, pollution was being mixed into our atmosphere.  

sources: 1) http://laborawareness.wordpress.com/child-labor-today/

                2)http://portal.achieve3000.com/kb/lesson/?lid=15495&step=11&c=65&asn=1
                3)http://www.projectcensored.org/3-child-labor-in-the-us-is-worse-today-than-during-the-1930s/