When is a child to young to work?

Wow! That is tough!!! I can't imagine my chidren working at that young of an age. But I also have to think about the fact that they are struggling. I hate to think that they are struggling so hard that these children can not continue to go to school that would earn them a better job to help the family more in the long run. I would seriously have to consider if it was really worth it. I would much rather work my fingers to the bone so my children would not have to. I would want them to have an education so that one day, they would not have to be faced with sending their children to work for their survival. It is a very sad situation!!! My son who is 16 yrs old started working his first job this past summer. He works for Mickey D's and is planning on saving for a car when he graduates for college. Even with him working, I have set the boundaries that he can not work past 9 pm on school nights because he has to have time for homework and enough time to sleep for school. They do respect that. Which, if they didn't, I would not allow him to work because his schooling comes first. But I think it is good for him to have a job at this time to help him learn what hard work is and that he wants to aspire to be more than a person that takes your order.

This is just a personal opinion, and I realize that things are different in other countries..but.. If you can't afford to support your own children, don't have them. I got my first job at the age of 17, but it was because I wanted to get a job. My parents, obviously, weren't going to pay for me to buy the latest trends of clothes and get my nails done every week just because I wanted it. They said if I wanted those things, I need a job. So I got one. They were never not able to provide for me, they simply wanted to teach me that if I wanted nicer things that were a necessity, then I would have to earn money for them. From then on, I've only ever gotten a job because I wanted one, not because my parents made me. So, again, if you can't afford to provide your children with the necessities in life, don't have them. Children of any age should not be FORCED to work so they can provide for their family. Teenage jobs are for buying things that your parents won't...not buying things that your parents can't.

in most of the under developed or developing countries these children dont work because they want to some extra pocket money but they do so in order to eat a single meal a day...the employers also take advantage of this fact and they are paid very low wages when compared to the amount earned by adult workers doing the same job..so all together they are being exploited a lot..they dont have even time to have basic schooling...

I am personally against child labours. It hurts my heart to see them struggling to earn some money for their family. Children's main duty is to get education because their future wont be better if they're uneducated. They can work, but only after school. So they can get both education and help their parents.

I've been working since I was 12. Picking cherries, doing odd jobs on farms, even door to door selling. I can't remember a time when I had to ask my parents for money for something I wanted. When my own oldest son was 12 we lived right in the heart of potato country. Kids in that area get 8 days off of school for the "potato harvest". I checked with some of the farmers in my National Guard unit to see if my son could spend those days working the harvest. The answer I got was disappointing. They said that they used to pay kids 12-16 $1,000 each for 8 10hour days of work, but with the modern child labor laws, there isn't much they can let the kids do anymore. I understand that there can be abuse when it comes to child labor, but it can also get to the point where the "protection" hurts the child more than the work. I think kids today are being robbed of learning opportunities, just because some suit in Washington wants to act like they care.

In my opinion,the kids under the age of 14 are not suitable to work, they are at the age when they should to learn more knowledge and enjoy their childhood. They are still growing, not only the body but also the mind. They should learn more knowledge and prepare for the future work, but not under labour.

you have just found this out? it has always happened it happens in america too but americans just close their eyes and pretend it does not happen in other countries children are sold to work farm when they are new born and stay there all their life dont believe the properganda that america tell you it is all lies just like jfk the cia and government know what happened and who did it, it was not oswald!

Unfortunately in some countries kids have to work under age 14 to help their families. In the U.S. I say 14 is the youngest and they should be limited to 10-15 hours a week, just to let them learn what it is like to have a job, but so they spend the majority of their time on school work and learning to socialize with friends and family.

A child should not work to support the family or himself. After 14 may have some symbolic things to do and get some symbolic money, again not for maintainig himself. They should study.

child labour is absolute brutality.... ppl use children 4 works just because they r the cheepest labourers... most of them dont evn need payment.. just food... this must stop and human rites should act on it and abolish this... it should b compelsory 4 children to b in school till the age of 16... nothing else!!!!

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I think the age below 15 is tooooo young to work......

I agree with you.A children under the age of 14 is too young to go to work.They should study hard at school.

hmm.. i think if the kids want to, why not? IF our parents cant work again....so why we aren't to try something that can help us. Helping our parent... hmmm I think that's not bad even we are still young. Only that can I say. Sorry if my english isn't good.

I think, the government should provide for its people. But in countries like Pakistan and India, the governments are so corrupt that children have to work to provide for their families

In Bangladesh too many child under 14 is working in transport sector, retail shop, small workshop, cottage industry, crop field. In Apparels Industry it is prohibited so none is work in this sector only. I do not support child below 18 do work, but how they will survive? Many are orphan, many from divorced family, someones mother get married with another man lefting his child, many are too poor that they are bound to work for their livelihood and for feeding their little brother or sister or ailing mother or disable father. So child labor cannot be stopped until we can provide their family with adequate food security.

In Bangladesh too many child under 14 is working in transport sector, retail shop, small workshop, cottage industry, crop field. In Apparels Industry it is prohibited so none is work in this sector only. I do not support child below 18 do work, but how they will survive? Many are orphan, many from divorced family, someones mother get married with another man lefting his child, many are too poor that they are bound to work for their livelihood and for feeding their little brother or sister or ailing mother or disable father. So child labor cannot be stopped until we can provide their family with adequate food security.

i am absolutely against teh idea of kids below 14years getting to work. whtever may be the circumstances they should not be made to work. if the family doesnt earn enough its the parents problem, they should think about such things before producing a huge brigade of kids

i do belive that a 14 year old should be in school and beeing a kid, but at the same time i never like u said, grew up in need. I do belive that it to some extent can be good for teenagers to work, to learn the value of money, but it should not be fulltime and it should not be for survival! I do belive that the world in general needs to change In some countries girls at the age of 9 are expected to get married and start having babies as soon as they hit puberty.

Kids under 14 should be in school. Basically,it comes under the resposibility of parents depending on their economic condition. National policy also plays great role if it has to produce experts in the future. The ruler of country must consider child rights factor for the planning of the nation.