Child labor exists all over the world, not just in Asia. In countries like India, as many as five million children are child laborers. The country that shocked me was the United States of America, with 300,000 children working as child laborers. Many people think they don't buy products of child labor. But companies such as Mattel, Fisher Price, Nike, Adidas, Reebok and clothes from the GAP, are all sub-contracted to factories that may use child labor.
Child labor makes poor countries remain poor.
The children and future leaders of the country are forced to work in factories. This doesn't allow the children enough time or money to attend school, so when they all grow up they are another population of uneducated adults to be taken advantage of by the rich. In a system like this, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Alicia Lauersen gave us insight into all these problems. She let us know that the only way we can change this is to take matters into our hands.