Entry Number 30

Should children be working?

Everytime that i go to the park i see a little boy selling plastic roses, he is goes from couple to couple asking to buy his flowers. The other day i realised that he is not alone a man takes him to the park I think he must be the child's father. That made feel that the child is obliged to do a job that in other cicumstances he should not do at his age. I read an article about chinese children who were kidnnaped and forced to work as slaves and I think there is not much difference between the child from the park and those from china. It is obvious that the government is turning a blind eye on this issue in both cases. Maybe when they realise how much damage is being done to those children it would be too late for them. The sad truth is that there is not much that we can do about this but to wait until someone with the power to stop it takes some actions an help the children who are leaving there chilhood on the streets or in a factory and not recieving what they deserve. The parents of the chinese kids were not aware about where their kids were took so they could only wait to hear something from them. On the other hand here in tucuman i realise that many parents use their children to get money and do not care if they go to school or not so they will have to keep doing the same thing when they grow up. To my question I think that the answer is clear, children should not be working they should be at school.