Stolen Childhoods By: Gyeong Eun You

Should children work? Should they suffer on streets? Should they be uneducated?

No, but more than 200 million children work instead of

getting educated. These children do not get paid. They are slaves, working for other people and not getting any money. This is called child labor. Children should be going to school and learning instead of working. But most children are doing this for their family. Believing theyll go back to their families. In the carpet factory, they mostly use child labor. They cheat families and bring children to work. The children are working dawn to dusk, every day, on and on. I think this is cruel and unfair. In Latin America, around 40 million children are street children. This means children who live on streets. Even in Mexico children are living on streets. They sniff the strong glue that is damaging their brains. They sniff this because