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buying products from companies like Walt Disney, where their workers
only earn 5 cents for every $11.99 item they produce. They proudly give
these items as gifts to their own children, children that are the same
age as those working in Haiti, not realizing that they are stained with
other’s fingerprints. Another widely known company that exploits
children is Nike. This company pays its workers in Indonesia about
$2.20 a day while the founder of this business has over $4.5 billion in
Nike’s stock alone. Although most of the companies that have been
mentioned have factories in third world countries, this is not the only
place that one can find child laborers, or sweatshops. A 1994 study by
the General Accounting Office found that 2,000 of the 6,000 garment
shops in New York City could be called sweatshops, and 4,500 out of
5,000 in Los Angeles were given the same title. If sweatshops and child
labor are to vanish from the earth, a multi-prolonged effort will be
needed to tackle some sizable related problems such as illegal
immigration, intemperate corporate profit-seeking and inadequate
schooling for the developing world’s children.
Although the above jobs sound dangerous and difficult, the most risky
form of child labor has yet to be discussed: child prostitution.
People in today’s society, and especially those in developed countries,
refuse to admit that this is indeed a large problem. They view children
as innocent beings, not as sexual objects. The fact still remains that
there are enough people out there that are willing to exploit children
in this way. There are over 300,000 children who sell their soul in the
United States, 20,000 in Sri Lanka, while Venezuela is home to over
40,000. India is reported to have between 400,000 and 500,000 and
Thailand has once been quoted to have over 800,000 child prostitutes
invading their streets. There will be an expected one million child
prostitutes joining the industry every year if current conditions do not