Comments
Here are some comments from people with different points of view on child labour:
"I think that we should expose the companies that produce through child labour and have harsh penalties for them."
- K. Thorburn
"Not many people know about child labour because it is kept very secretive, so it think we need to tell the world that child labour needs to be stopped and we need to think of ways to fix it. "
- G. McArthur
"I won't be able to have an Apple!"
-Anonymous
"I think in some ways child labour is a great thing, because it produces things in big numbers and financially is good for the bigger businesses, plus if the children didn't have it they would have nothing."
-Anonymous
" It's not right. We have so many things and then look at the children who are hungry and in poverty. We need to stop being so selfish and think of the people less fortunate than us."
-Anonymous
"I think that child labour is one of the most selfish acts that the human race has come across - everybody has a right to be able to live a happy healthy life."
- E. Kessels
"I think that child labour is wrong and should be stopped immediately because it is unfair and they deserve to have a life - a life to have freedom. Also they should be treated the same as of the other children of the same age."
- S. Patil
"It is a cruel way to make money. Children are forced to work in harsh conditions with little or no pay."
- Anonymous
"I know it is unfair and they work in terrible working conditions and sometimes it is the only source of income in some cases - but I strongly support they should have better working conditions and more better pay."
- M. Chew
"Child labour should not happen and it is not right - some people have so many things that they don't need when others are dying in poverty."
- Anonymous
"I think it is completely and utterly atrocious and there is no definition for it - despite it being illegal in some countries."
- D. Woodhouse
"I feel that child labour is despicable and that all children should have a childhood and a right to an education. The exploitation of children by large companies is most unethical and unchristian."
- Anonymous
"Although I know child labour is wrong, I feel that it is not happening to someone I know and I definitely prefer to buy the cheaper products even though they use child labour."
- Anonymous
"I think that the phrase 'The love of money is the root of all evil' applies to this situation that large companies want to sell cheap products to people that want to buy them and underpinning this is the exploitation for their labour, which is cheap. People can be inadvertently supporting child labour, without realizing it by buying products that use child labour where materials are made in developing countries. Have you ever see advertising for a product that says 'This product was made with child labour?' No."
- Anonymous
"I think that it is terrible that children are made to work - children should be allowed to be children. Their rights should not be exploited."
- Anonymous