The International Labor Organization (ILO) has estimated that 250 million children between the ages of five and fourteen work in developing countries. Sixty-one percent of these are in Asia, 32 percent in Africa, and 7 percent in Latin America. Most working children in rural areas are found in agriculture; many children work as domestics; urban children work in trade and services, with fewer in manufacturing and construction. Of those children, almost three-quarters (171 million) work in hazardous situations and conditions, such as working in mines, working with chemicals and pesticides in agriculture or working with dangerous machinery. This situations need attention of government about their future. This essay will reveal some reasons why government should not allow underage children work. The reasons will include children education, development, the worst form of children labor, and the crimes over them. As a note, the children I mean are in age of five to fourteen years old, and commonly called underage children.

First, in relation with education, children work is not acceptable because they can not focus on their education anymore. Their most time is spent on working while they forget to study. Based on UNICEF statistics, many children do not attend their school because of working. If so, how can the children become educated persons? As we know, an educated person will lead a country and replace old generation position. Furthermore, government program of education will get barrier.

Second, millions of children work to help their families in ways that are neither harmful nor exploitative. But millions more are put to work in ways that drain childhood of all joy-and crush the right to normal physical and mental development. What they do and how they work may affect their development. In other words, they can not enjoy their childhood. I believe, it will give dangerous effect for their future.

Third, let us focus on the worst form of child labor. Children who work long hours, often in dangerous and unhealthy conditions, are exposed to lasting physical and psychological harm. Working at rug looms, for example, has left children disabled with eye damage, lung disease, stunted growth, and a susceptibility to arthritis as they grow older. Children making silk thread in India dip their hands into boiling water that burns and blisters them, breath smoke and fumes from machinery, handle dead worms that cause infections, and guide twisting threads that cut their fingers. Children harvesting sugar cane in El Salvador use machetes to cut cane for up to nine hours a day in the hot sun; injuries to their hands and legs are common and medical care is often not available. All these situations will lead to destruction of children body and future.


Forth,the children have to face many crimes over them. Millions of girls work as domestic servants and unpaid household help and are especially vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. Millions of others work under horrific circumstances. They may be trafficked (1.2 million), forced into debt bondage or other forms of slavery (5.7 million), into prostitution and pornography (1.8 million), into participating in armed conflict (0.3 million) or other illicit activities (0.6 million). If so, they will suffer and have no future anymore.

To conclude, for millions of children, there is no time to be a child. Work fills the day. Two hundred and fifty million children work, and many of them do not attend their school. They do not have the future anymore and get suffered because of working. Therefore, government shoud not allow them to work. Let them enjoy their childhood because to make sure their future is duty of government and society include ours.