How is Child Labour wrong & right? In ethical terms. Please Help.?

Question

How is Child Labour wrong & right? In ethical terms. Please Help.?

Answer 1

Child Labor is simply a child of any given age, working.   What is the child working on? Does the child want to work?  Are they chores given by the parents?  Is not education child labor in that they are working on their minds and kids are forced to go?

Basically, child labor itself is inherently ambiguous until it is shaded with its agenda.

Answer 2

Would you rather want your child to hawk wares or go to school? I know you will prefer that he or she goes to school. Then, child labour is bad.

The word child means such person ought to be under the care of his or her parent or guardian and be fully protected. If the reverse is the case, then such child is exposed to danger.

Child labour is not good from any perspective. PERIOD.

Answer 3

Ethically speaking, children are supposed to be learning about the world and receiving formal education.  It's hard to do either if they are working in a factory for 8 hours a day.  That's what adults are for.   Letting the kids learn, play, and grow is ethical.

Answer 4

Wrong in the sense that they don't pay a child like they do an adult and often treat them as slave labor with intimidating factors while depriving them of an education.  

Right in the sense that sometimes a 13 year old can be the only person to make money for their  family, sometime. I.E. single-mother who is dying from an illness and the younger kids need to eat.  I don't see why a someone around age 13 couldn't get a job as a dishwasher or something along that line for the income to help the home while still attending school.  I do have problem with a 3 year old being beaten and forced to work in a Nike shop in Singapore for a nickle an hour.

Answer 5

There's nothing wrong with giving a child the sense of self-respect and self-worth that comes from doing a good job and being rewarded for it. But  working mustn't prevent a child from getting education, playing, resting and enjoying family life. It also mustn't put a child's health and development at risk.

Sadly, many of the products we use today are made with child labour, because we like to buy things cheap. Our big companies often play a key part by driving prices down so that suppliers overseas look for cheaper and cheaper labour. Children are living and working in conditions that would have us up in arms if it happened in our country.

If we truly love children, we should all play our part in making sure that exploitative child labour is outlawed. Just a fraction of the money we spend on sweets and treats would enable children in the poor parts of South America, Africa, India and Asia to get good food, a good education and a chance to make life better for themselves and their families.

I hope we'll all act on that, by giving, by taking action, and in the way we choose to spend our money and the companies we support.

Answer 6

I think it is not wrong as long as certain factors taken into consideration and taken care of - like child physiology, psychology etc.

and social too - that child needs to spent certain time to study and grow, develop, PLAY, socialize, BE LOVED - to become a wholesome individual.

labor is not wrong in itself, even might be useful in proper does and way - but exploitation IS, and the neglectfulness of all those above mentioned (and perhaps many other) factors.

and it is much easier to exploit child than adult.

Answer 7

Children should not be bearing the weight of supporting themselves or their family.  That is the people who made thems job.