Child Labor

Jesse Focused on the Philippines Child Labor How does a child that works in the Philippines differ from a child that works in another developed country? Situation in the Philippines Introduction: Why? 66% Child labor has been at stake in the Philippines in the past couple of decades. The country's economy has been rising over the past couple of years, but the amount of child laborers have taken no effect despite the rising economy (in terms of GDP per capita). In order to gain money, poor parents send their children off to work and they get paid a small fee. But recent studies show that some children are not getting adequate food, shelter and other basic needs. This proves that employers in the Philippines have gotten greedier. In spite, many children are coming down with various health conditions such as body pains and eye strains while working for their employers. of working children in the Philppines are situated in rural areas. w K Plus, many children don't get a good education- a) because of gender inequality; b) because of the Since the Philippines is a developing nation, I strongly feel that the major factor behind child labor is wealth. The government has not done anything to make sure wealth is distributed evenly througout the country. That's why some are millionaires while others spend a dollar a day. Is that fair? expense; c) because of the long distance from home to school; or d) they flunked out of school. Thus, the child is likely to be forced to work for Philippines (50.0%t A Staggering Fact a master. The Philippines have the most amount of child laborers when compared to other countries in South East Asia. In fact, if you look at the pie chart on the right, about half of all child laborers in South East Asia come from the Philippines. No wonder 1/3 of the population lives under the poverty line. Rest of SE Asia (50.0% Poverty Around the World Source: CIA. % of People who live above or below the national poverty line, in both developing and developed nations (Size of person represents nation's population; they are relative.) 84.9% 67.1 % 86% Above 81.5% 74.4% 73.7% 15.1% 32.9% Below Britain USA UAE Panama Moldova Philippines Developed Developing Conclusion As you can clearly see, less families live under the poverty line in developed nations. Thereby, there are more children working in developing nations. Also, employers that situate in developed nations are usually richer than those in developing nations, so it makes sense if children work in harsher conditions in developing nations, as their masters cannot afford better conditions. One more point-developing nations have a large problem regarding education- gender inequality. I'm not saying that the problem does not exist in developed nations, but it is severe in developing ones. Bare URL's http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/media/reports/iclp/sweat/philippines.htm http://ipecphils.tripod.com/phillaws/intro.htm http://rachanadeshpande2.articlealley.com/child-labor-in-philippines-666377.html http://www.soschildrensvillages.ca/where-we-help/asia/philippines/pages/default.aspx http://www.soschildrensvillages.ca/where-we-help/asia/philippines/pages/default aspx Piktochart You