Child labor is a recent phenomenon in Mexico, as many children are forced to enter the workforce to either provide an additional income for their family or as a means of survival. These children are working six or seven days a week, for as many as ten hours a day. Working conditions like these do not allow many of these children to attend school, further resulting in the even more difficult challenge of finding a life off of the streets. Sadly, many people do not recognize this struggle that children as young as five years old are going through day in and day out. These children are often stigmatized as delinquents and beggars with no futures. Unfortunately, as there is no way to place the blame for this situation on any single person or event, there is a similar difficulty to finding a single answer to this issue. The diversity of situations faced by these working children makes them a highly complex group which is difficult to cater to in a single, all purpose policy. Nevertheless, I hope that through my website, we are able to place a face on the statistics and clarify common misconceptions about working children.
http://itrs.scu.edu/faculty/Bousquet/winter07/ENGL2/ikristoff_winter07/beggarslife.html
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