- Depriving children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and is harmful to physical and mental development.
- Is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful.
- Interferes with their schooling by depriving them or the opportunity to attend school, obliging them to leave school prematurely, or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work.
The ages are raged as so:
- Ages 5-11: At least one hour of economic work or 28 hours of domestic work per week.
- Ages 12-14: At least 14 hours of economic work or 28 hours of domestic work per week.
- Ages 14-17: At least 43 hours of economic work or domestic work per week.
Accidents
- 1992-2000, there was reported 603 children that died as a result of occupational injuries.
- 1998, 77,000 child workers required treatment in hospital emergency rooms and an estimate total of 230,000 children under age 18 suffered work related injuries in the same year.
Bibliography
LL, J. (2009). Child Labor. Retrieved from NCFH: http://www.ncfh.org/docs/fs-Child%20Labor.pdf
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