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What are unintended consequences in law?
Would it be something similar to banning sweatshops in other countrys so the young girls who worked there became prostitutes and street hustlers to make money? Hasn't the US caused enough misery in the world?
From Wiki: "The absence of the work opportunities provided by sweatshops can quickly lead to malnourishment or starvation. After the Child Labor Deterrence Act was introduced in the US, an estimated 50,000 children were dismissed from their garment industry jobs in Asia, leaving many to resort to jobs such as "stone-crushing, street hustling, and prostitution." UNICEF's 1997 State of the World's Children study found these alternative jobs "more hazardous and exploitative than garment product
What are some unintended consequences of feminist laws?
Rose, the same way they get states to violate our Constitutional Rights; with money, or the threat of less money. The US banned imports from those sweatshops.
Rebel, how would you feel if that 3 cents a day was the equivalent of 30 US dollars? Living is so much cheaper in those countrys. Those children in the wiki cite were earning 15 to 30 cents per garment, not 3 cents a day.
Rose, yes prostitution and hustling were already issues, but apparently you lack compassion for those children who had to take it up. Pitiful.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Some abortion laws leave out the rare cases of men wanting soul custody. Other laws such as sexual harassment prohibitions create paranoia and hesitations to hire women. Sometimes they are abused. No law can cover every possible angle, but the court does all in its power to hear. Sometimes the greater issue must outweigh the minority tragedies, but other times new laws or clearer definitions are added to remedy those situations.
Source(s): EDIT: While ridding a place of child slave labor is a wonderful gesture, leaving no alternative forms of income is not very well planned. What is a good solution? I certainly am not comfortable buying products made by an 8 year old who got paid 3 cents per day! Numbers not specific on a particular country. Where were you speaking of? That is all I think of when I buy things....it is disturbing. It is still extortion. - Anonymous1 decade ago
Child Labor Deterrence 1992: proposed by Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa to encourage other countries..and company's even US ones. to follow the already established....The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, often referred to as CRC or UNCRC, is an international convention setting out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of children. 1990
there is also this Child Workers in Asia (CWA) - association of about 70 non-governmental organizations and groups, defending rights of children in the sphere of child labor in 14 countries. Established in 1985 as a support group[1].
International Labor Organization, there are an estimated 218 million children aged 5 to 17 in child labor worldwide, excluding child domestic labor.[4] The most widely rejected forms of child labor include the military use of children as well as child prostitution.
No I don't feel good about this, but you point has huge holes:
Street hustling and prostitution were already an issue prior to any involvement by the US...I know the US send money over there to help them.
secondly, both Acts were proposed and sponsored by men.
so your example is busted.....
Maybe the US needs to get involved more and only allow contries that have a minimum wage set that will reasonably support it's citizens. The companies that will get hit the hardest are america anyway...
Source(s): oh ya copy paste from Wiki to. - wendy gLv 71 decade ago
What needs to happen in those countries is what happened in the U.S. and other western countries, when we had those conditions here. We need to facilitate equal pay acts and child labor protection laws in those countries.
Why us? Because we are exporting jobs, and building factories "over there" to take advantage of the exploitative wages.
Which means we won't do squat.