Children are and always have been in need of extra help because to function in any society one must learn and children and the prime apprentices of life, needing as much assistance as anyone and can’t possibly be expected to perform like an average adult when they haven’t even progressed to the full functioning capacity of applying what they have learned to an average lifestyle.
All over the world children’s rights are being violated and disturbed in more ways than you could possibly count and they’re being expected to lead a lifestyle that even some adults in North America aren’t equipped to do. A child has innocence, a quality that should be prolonged as much as possible because our world, regrettably, is full of unfair and sometimes tormenting and terrifying circumstances and subjecting people who haven’t yet learned how to deal with such situations could very well cause them to develop differently than how they otherwise would have, sometimes even damaging their psychological self. Now that being said, I’m in no way implying that all children who live burdensome lives will become socially and emotionally challenged but they will grow up differently and lose that overbearing innocence that every child should be permitted to enjoy at least for a short amount of time. Because being a child involves doing everything for the first time and learning something new everyday, adding on the extra burden of strenuous, long hour days doesn’t leave them the ability to learn and experience as they would have if they didn’t work.
Child human rights violations are happening everywhere and it’s hard to figure out in what way we can help these children but at the same time try not be ignorant of how their society operates and have our “help” turn out to bring more poverty and economic distress to their community. The root of these types of problems can be a number of different things from government to ancient laws and the key to eliminating child labour is to fix the problems that promote it. Even the simplest idea of raising the minimum wage so as to not force children to work because their parents aren’t able to adequately provide the essentials for them. Action can happen and things can be done to help every single child subject to labour situations but the irrationality of a “quick fix” is not something that could ever be applied to a problem such as this. In the case of preventing child rights from being violated, persistance, perseverance, and determination can so easily be added into the mix. The sheer colossal impact that would have would be so exceedingly immense, it would make you think about why you didn’t do it before.
