Child Labour Survey Results

Child Labour

Child labour is when children are forced to work extremely long hours in very hazardous conditions and are being paid practically nothing. These children are being treated very poorly and are performing in jobs that are meant for adults. In other words, they are underage for this type of employment.

I created a survey with the following questions;

1. What are some of the main causes of child labour?

2. Where is child labour a large issue?

3. What are some solutions to end child labour?

4. What are 3 (or more) companies that are guilty of child labour?

5. How can we protect the children who are forced into child labour?

6. How can we further prevent these children from being exploited again?

The results were the following;

1. “Large industries taking advantage of of impoverished villages and families”, poverty, and “Unethical companies and organizations”,

2. Developing countries

3. “Don’t support places that use child labour”, install a system that eliminates child labour where it is commonly found, and “Stimulate economic growth so that child labour is no longer needed”.

4. Kitkat, Mars, Nike, Victoria’s Secret, Apple, Disney, H&M, Walmart, Nestle, Forever 21, Hershey's, Abercrombie, and Calvin Klein

5. Create rules and regulations against the use of child labour and implement consequences if these laws are broken, further educate the children.

One answer for this question that did not come up was to educate the families and parents of the children. Although educating the children is very important, the priority is the adults of the family because they are the ones who are desperately sending off their children as a result of not being able to support their family themselves.

6. “Enforce laws and business rules that only allow businesses who don’t use child labour to be certified and a legal business”, do not support companies who use child labour.

Conclusion

Child labour is when children are taken to work in hazardous conditions for long hours for practically no pay. This is not only poverty and lack of education in developing countries but it also occurs in large companies in first world countries although it is kept a secret (for obvious reasons). Some solutions to this problem is to not support companies that use child labour, implement a system that eliminates child labour, and enforce severe punishments for breaking the laws against child labour.

To follow up, we can stop buying from and supporting companies who use child labour. These children and frightened, depressed, underage, and in danger.