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__**Child Labor**__
Child labors is becoming more and more common in different countries of Africa. Due to the terrible economy living standards and income have fallen. The decrease in income has forced children to go and work so to help support their family. They will work for hours of the day and get paid very, very little. They perform a variety of tasks, such as mining, bird chasing, weeding, and breaking apart stones. In Zambia there are over 1.2 million children who are forced to work (AfricanNews). A man named Furio Rosati devised research in Zambia, and found that children who work and go to school do much worse than those who don't work. Being uneducated, and being placed into adulthood with disadvantages can have a major impact on the community socially and economically. This, however, isn't something that can just be stopped because we feel it’s wrong, there are many aspects that tie into this and just taking it away may cause more bad than good. If you take away the kid’s jobs they will have no other choice but to go find another one. They will sink so low as to prostituting themselves for money because they are so desperate for money. In Malawi, there are many parents, mainly mothers, who say that as long as the child/children is under the care of the parents they have no rights at all. A lot of parents will make the child do whatever it takes to keep the family going. Some even send their kids to estates or plantations to work, where its 40 cents per child. There have also been incidents where young girls were forced into marriage for money. The way the parents see it, is that children are a pair of hands to support the family, so they put them to work because money is the main objective now. Without money you have no food, no clothing or any other basic essential.

Zambia

Malawi

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