THe Choice prostitution or labor?

It's ironic that the overpopulated country which has been managed inefficiently by successive governments in Bangladesh are not 'punished' for making people poorer, rather the Western world is weighing morality to engage kids below 18 years of age who can earn a living with honor and dignity if they are working in any export-oriented industries where compliance are strictly maintained in other parameters of any Western industries. As a result these poor kids aged between 14 to 18 years are thrown back to the 'sea of hunger' where they would revert back to more degrading work under the ownership of enterprises who would produce low quality products or low-value products for local sale, thereby, paying half or below salary to what these poor souls would have got if they were allowed to work in export-oriented industries where the long-arm of the Western Buyers could monitor their safety and security besides a respectable salary that would have helped the families, who are also themselves working for a pittance in local industries, just to make the ends meet. Now the question of which would need to be tackled first? It's more like egg or chicken came first.

I would say that restricting kids between 14-18 years is a double-edged sword. If you keep allowing it then people would be dependent and future generations won't improve much. But if you throw these kids out on the streets and they get more degraded then how can you justify the 'cruelty' meted out to these aspiring kids who would have one day taken the position as good worker to replace the aging work force? If you do not come and see the problem at ground level then you could hardly fathom what is the result of your advocating high moral values and depriving people who were starting seeing some lights at the end of the dark tunnel. Let me quote a few survey results and leave it onto your good judgement as to whom you are depriving by creating awareness as if you are savior of these unfortunate kids who were barred to earn a decent living.

Quote: "Over a third of the population is under the age of 18 and almost seven million children between five and 14 have to work to help their families survive." Un-quote.

Quote: "Legal protection: Bangladesh enacted the Labour Act in 2006, which includes a chapter on child labour. This new law prohibits employment of children under 14 years of age, as well as prohibiting hazardous forms of child labour for persons under age 18. However, children who are aged 12 and above may be engaged in “light work” that does not pose a risk to their mental and physical development and does not interfere with their education." Un-quote.

Quote: "Around 26.5 million of the 63 million children in Bangladesh live below the national poverty line, regardless of the measurement method used and more than half of all households with children are poor in terms of international poverty line below the $1 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) threshold. Around 58 per cent of all children are severely deprived of any one of the six deprivation indicators: shelter; sanitation; water; information; education; and health, with around 20 per cent suffering from at least two severe deprivations. Around 64 per cent are deprived of sanitation facilities; 59 per cent of information; 57 per cent of proper nutrition (stunting, wasting, or underweight); and 41 per cent of adequate shelter......About 6 per cent of all children are orphans; and relatively more orphans (30 per cent) are from femaleheaded households......Despite constitutional recognition of the right to shelter for all citizens, 41 per cent of all children are deprived of adequate shelter. At policy and programme levels, there is little provision for providing shelter facilities to poor, homeless households, or children living on the streets." Un-quote

I would suggest that an in-depth study of the problem of child-labor be undertaken in Bangladesh context and then come out with a possible solution as to how to curb this curse of child-labor with a win-win situation whereby the winner would be innocent children in one hand as well as their employer & buyer of the output on the other hand.

Hope above helps understand the dilemma we are passing through now about child-labor in Bangldesh.

So long as men and women have these wicked desires and the method to meet them with no need to do any work, these things will keep happening. It can be very sad. Sure, some females opt for to promote their our bodies, they usually enjoy it, and like the money. However as a rule they are either compelled to, this is called human trafficking, or they suppose that there is nothing else they can do for money and just keep digging a larger hole and can't get out. In particular in cases with a single mother with no good job, she could lodge to prostitution.

I was fascinated to hear that workers in sweatshops don't want us to know that children make our garments. They want their job security, but if our society becomes outraged about child labor, then their jobs are threatened. It doesn't work to just lay off all the children. Their parents have to be paid enough to send the children to school.

So you think that when kids can't work they become prostitutes.

Well...that's an interesting fantasy you have there.