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child labour
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Why the need for child labour laws??
If a child wants to work then why not??
If a child wants to work then why not??
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hellooo ...the real world ...exploitation health and safety ...what a stupid question!
what kind of employment do you have in mind ...flying a jet ...driving a train ...fireman ...soldier ...or just skivvy?
If they manage to escape brainwashing camps they have two options, to work or to gang up, hang around corners aimlessly, die from boredom and eventually turn into street gangs. What is better from State’s point of view, working children or street gangs? Rhetorical question. Look around and you’ll see what is happening. Certainly street gangs are better, so we have child labour laws.
Huh, so?
Why can't a child do a menial job like working in a shop or something?? It would teach them the value of work!
Child labour legislation should be relaxed.
It may not be, but surely you don't dispute economic differences between families?
Maybe different cultures have differing methods of treating children, I don't know. In many cases it's because families are too poor to support themselves!
Many of these family's still suffer poverty though because these multi nationals pay these kids mere pennys a day. They don't care about the childrens wellfare, only making a maximum profit.
these people don't just not give a fuck about anything but their own comfort ...they are incapable of seeing beyond that.
i could quite easily be persuaded to pick up a gun and become a freedom fighter ...oops ...terrorist ...to get shut once and for all!
my mind has boggled again! but that was anothrer thread.
Because the family gets child support, the youth doesn't need to work.
Uh oh... benefits come from theft! (aka taxes)
In that case, the children SHOULD work!!:yes:
children shouldnt need to work, you do enough of that yor whole life, that when you should be learning things for the sake of learning them and learning social skills
i am for activities such as scouts, cadets etc because they teach the kid what a bit of effort can do and helps with growing up
at age 14 i was working for £2.50 an hour at the weekends with no lunch break.
when kids are old enough they can get jobs but there are rules and regulations to make sure they arent over worked.
in any caes, would you want an 8 year old serving you in a shop?
WAIT, let's give them rifles and send them as cannon fodder to Iraq.:rolleyes:
We already do. Amnesty Internation regularly complain about the children in the British Army- someone who is 16 is only a child still.
old enough to die for ones country but not old enough to have a say in how it is governed :rolleyes:
Non sequitur.
Why not? It's not my child; therefore I'm not obligated to care for it.
http://www.learndirect-advice.co.uk/helpwithyourcareer/jobprofiles/profiles/
As for actually fighting, noone under 18 is given a rifle and sent to the front lines.
i know i wouldnt.