Hard facts about Child Labour In America

In most cases, the conditions of the work environment supplied for children is unbelievable. The area in which they work are not properly accommodated for even the healthiest adult, better yet a child. They are often forced to perform work in unbearable conditions.

The most common form of industrial child abuse is putting a child to work in an unbearable working condition. These conditions often include limited or no air conditioning causing the children to have to work in the heat. This can often lead to illness or even death if the child is overheated. Child labour in America is rarely involved in such factories but is not unheard of.

The exhaustion of working in unbearable conditions leads to unnecessary illnesses or deaths among innocent children. Not only do most institutions enabling child labour unable to provide air conditioning, but they are also usually very unsanitary. The proper cleaning or caring for the work environment in which the children are placed is minor. Children forced to work in such conditions often acquire serious illnesses “if” they even survive.
It is a sad but all too real reality that must be faced by people today. Although the law tries to do what is needed to prevent such child labour from happening, it is impossible to enforce the laws upon everyone.
Fortunately, child labour in America is strongly prohibited (these are facts from this article,[1] but I doubt it). Child labour laws are enforced at the utmost severity and only children within the age limit are allowed to work. However, many countries around the world are not as prominent when it comes to the prevention of child labour.

Especially in locations with vast poverty, there is limited or no laws regarding whether or not there should be a limit on the age a child is allowed to work. These areas are in desperate need of workers, and resort to the unthinkable. Forcing children to work is a criminal act that is atrocious in the minds of many people.

There is no real way to prevent child labour in America completely, just like its laws cannot be enforced for child labour in India or many other countries. The best way to prevent it is to educate people about the risks or allowing child labour. Child labour in America is strongly prohibited (I am quite sceptic about this statement based on the reports[2] I have come across) thanks to child labour laws, but the only way to prevent it is to understand it.

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[1] Susana Adame, ‘The Scandal of Child Labour in US farming’ <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/may/31/children-farm-jobs-immigrants>accessed 2 November 2010

[2] Marijke Peters, ‘Child Labour in US: dangerous double-standard’ <http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/child-labour-us-dangerous-double-standardaccessed> accessed 2 November 2010