in my opinion child labor should be legal, because there many families which are very poor and need money. why children if they want to help their parents cannot do it?

I think that some types of working, which are not required physical efforts should not be forbidden. I'm talking about singing, dancing or something like that. actually it is child labor too, because they earn some money. so they can combine bussines with pleasure.

There is an international duty on governments to uphold the dignity of man. This can only be done with the independence gained from education, a good quality of life and independent income. Child labour destroys the creativity and innocence of the young, and must be stopped.

I think that child labour is not really good for them,because children should study but not work, they will have time in their near future, their future job depends on their education.

Apprenticeship was considered a very good idea, children learned a trade and became professionals later in life. Present day education does not prepare children for the working environment, they also do not understand the value of money. There was never a sole earner in a family, everyone worked to survive. The system has developed in which before the man of the house was the only one working for the entire family, but as economic circumstances changed both parents worked. That too has pr oven to be a failure. In an economic crisis - parents also also lose their jobs - how is the family going to survive? The answer lies that everyone pools in - including the children. Isolating people and making them sole earners does not not help - no person can ever be sure that his or her job will continue and will continue making the same amount of money. The family as a unit makes money for itself. Part of it goes for food and shelter, the other goes buying things for oneself without depending on someone else to get them.

In earlier days children were apprentices of carpenters and tailors. Those professions have gone. With changing times, children have pr oven to be good at programming computers - just one example. Ultimately it is the value of money is what they learn. Parents can remain unemployed for prolonged periods - that is not good for the family.

I am for child labor, that is any form of safe labor performed by a child for a fair wage.

Coddling children does not do them any favors. It is essential that they learn the workings of the adult world before entering it, rather than being blindsided by it when they turn 18, and being completely unprepared, and totally irresponsible. "Public Education" does nothing to assist in this necessity, the only way to learn it is to experience it yourself, and you do that by working.

Apprenticeships, assembly lines, arts and crafts, farm labor, these are a few of the things that children should be permitted to engage in for a wage. It really does them a disservice to prevent them from working, especially if they want to.

Laws prohibiting child labor should have instead pushed for safe working conditions, decent hours, fair wage, and encouraging apprenticeships, in all disciplines.