They also will work for less pay than adults so the children receive their jobs. As a result the amount of money brought into the home is less and not enough to support the family. Child Labor continues generation after generation because the children grow into unskilled adults who are not employed where they worked as a child. They become unemployed as the next generation of children take their former jobs. The children are often beaten and the girls often sexually abused.
Child labor hinders a third world country s industrial development.
Factory and industry bosses do not buy labor-saving technology because child labor is cheaper. Child Labor is also harmful for powerful first world countries like the U.S. Industries leave their countries and their workers for the much cheaper Child Laborers in Third World countries whom are underpaid and work in unhealthy, unsanitary conditions. The workers in the developed countries are globally competing for jobs with these children workers. Children who are unable to attend school because of costs or non-availability tend to join the work force earlier. Starting free quality elementary schools for children under 14 will let them join the work force later and decrease ignorance and illiteracy.