All Work and No Play – Problem Log

The problem is complicated when the students learn that the parents of the children want them to work and are in dire need of the additional income provided by them, as well as by the fact that an overwhelming majority of the children say that they want to work and would prefer it to going to school. Putting restrictions on the rights of children to work could be economically devastating for families and keeps children from progressing in the careers that will support their own families someday.

Faced with these facts, the students must decide what recommendations to make to protect child laborers—a difficult task. The unit culminates as the students present their recommendations at the hearing.