There are about 215,000,000 children involved in the child labor work force every day. Child labor is very hard on a child. The labor is both hard on the children mentally and physically. As you can clearly see child labor is a horrible industry that destroys childhoods and has serious negative effects on children mentally and physically throughout their life.
Physical Effects
- Mutilation and physical injury can occur from poorly maintained machinery
- Inexperienced workers can be injured on the job
- Intense jobs can injure children
- Pesticide poisining can occur to children working on farms
- Growth deficiency can occur later in life
- Respiratory desiese and a variety of cancers can impact children who work with chemicals
- Exhaustion and malnutrition can effect children who work hard jobs and don't have proper nutrition
Mental effects
- Children won't receive proper educations
- Kids can form problematic social behaviors
- Kids will be have a higher risk of developing bad habits such as using drugs
- They might develop major aggression
- They will be more likely to break the law because of aggression
- They will have struggles developing useful social behaviors
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