"10 facts about child Labor in Iraq" (they mean Boy labor but are being gender neutral when it's about boys who are suffering).

ArCSelkie37 · 2019-12-30T03:20:10+00:00

Child labour will always be a thing until you can fundamentally change these countries. It’s not even a case of them being forced into slavery, these kids need to work in order to even survive. That’s why Fact 7? That goes on about UN law means nothing.

Sure you can make a law that means kids can’t work, but they still need to work because both parents are dead and his sister isn’t allowed to work because she’s a girl. So yeah, it’s a bit more complicated than just banning kids from working.

The entire country would need to change including support for orphaned/vulnerable kids that have no one to rely on.

mcmur · 2019-12-30T17:32:09+00:00

'child' labor and 'child' soldiers are weasel words the media uses so they don't have to say boy soldiers or boy laborers. Its a shitty old tactic they've been employing for decades to erase the subject of male issues and male suffering from public discourse.

ARCS2010 · 2019-12-30T00:32:01+00:00

This is a stretch. I've never heard of child labor as anything other than gender neutral. Separating it into "boy labor" and "girl labor" is ridiculous. This is the primary reason nobody takes us seriously.

adool666 · 2019-12-30T20:58:09+00:00

I was a kid living in Iraq until 2006. My dad took me to work with him in the summer and weekends. It's just a thing, your dad expects you to take over after he retires.

Title	"10 facts about child Labor in Iraq" (they mean Boy labor but are being gender neutral when it's about boys who are suffering).
Author	MRA-automatron-2kb
Upvotes	226
Comments	22
Date	December 29, 2019 9:49 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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