Реферат: Child Abuse Essay Research Paper People in

million children enslaved in its trap, including those working as

domestic slaves. Out of these there are over 73 million children that

are under the age of 10. Children, who should be out in the sunshine

having fun with their friends, or playing on a local soccer league are

in actuality slaving over machines in factories or serving families as a

domestic slave. These frail beings work in places like India making

rugs that need 4000 knots per square inch. They are sold as slaves in

Sudan for a mere $15 per child or in Africa for domestic work. In

Pakistan they are enslaved in the brick industry, in Turkey they work in

textile industries, and in Italy they sweat over making shoes that

people all over the world buy and proudly wear. The mines in which some

children are forced to work in Columbia and Peru collapse upon them and

severely injure or kill hundreds of workers. What is unbelievable is

the amount of money that these children are paid for their long hours in

the factory. While most children prefer to work in a factory over doing

domestic chores the conditions are not that much better. Granted there

are hundreds of other children their age surrounding them, but they are

not allowed to talk with them, if they do, they are beaten. They work

between 16 and 18 hours a day, are sometimes shackled to their looms and

can not go to the bathroom or take breaks of any kind. This is indeed

unfortunate, but what may be more regrettable is that children in Canada

complain that they earn only $6.85 an hour as minimum wage. For doing

what, flipping burgers or serving drinks? What they do not realize is

that they can eat when they are hungry, they are allowed to take breaks

(in fact it is mandatory), they can socialize while working and they

work under sanitary conditions with benefits. These children that are

being exploited earn only 31 cents an hour in Honduras, 24 cents in

Nicaragua, and a whopping 56 cents in El Salvador. In Sri Lanka they

are given 18 cents an hour and in China and Vietnam they reportedly