So what happens within the factories? How are children treated? Are they given enough food so that they are considered to be on a balanced diet? Do they work in a clean air environment? According to the US house of Representatives, "children work for twelve hours a day, with only small breaks for meals. The children are often fed very minimal staples. The vast majority of migrant child workers who cannot return home at night sleep alongside of their loom, further inviting sickness and poor health." Such a review of how the children are being treated is heartbreaking. We are talking about 7-14 year olds, or in other worlds, 1st to 6th graders. I understand that there is an economic situation happening worldwide, that does not mean that children should be treated like animals, or suffer an even worse form of treatment. Even though we cannot fix the problem entirely, we can try to "butter it up" in any possible way. What I mean by buttering the situation is making it seems less abusive and more child friendly. What factory owners can do is make sure that children are allowed breaks because they are not adults, they have to make sure that children eat a sufficient amount of different types of food and not just grains of rice. This is all crucial to the child's health. Children are working in polluted factory shops and are treated miserably. All I am asking is that factory owners have to be more considerate and treat the children as if they were one of their own. Is that too much to ask for?
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Works Cited
"Child Labor in India." Pangaea Publishing and Design for Nature & Peoples of the Earth. 28 Apr. 2009 .
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