Then check out our help section to figure out the basics of the web. Children have always been treated differently than adults, and they probably always will be. In the olden days, some children were even used as slaves in foreign countries.
Children have rights, too.
But children's rights are different than adult's rights. This story explains children's rights, and how they've changed from the past to the present. The displaced working classes, from the seventeenth century on, took it for granted that a family would not be able to support itself if the children were not employed. The children of the poor were forced by economic conditions to work, as Dickens, with his family in debtor's prison, worked at age 12 in the Blacking Factory. Most prostitutes were between 15 and 22 years of age.