Behind The Beautiful Forevers Analysis

In India today 95% of all children are forced to work for money. Their parents are too poor to send them to school; yet they are the most willing to learn. Behind the Beautiful Forevers has a central theme of child labor. It homes in on families who are forced to send their children to work to make income for the family. Child labor in itself is morally wrong, but if it is too survive what choice do they have. This research paper will discuss the basic meaning of child labor and compare the labor in that of Behind the Beautiful Forever’s to the rest of the world; furthermore go in depth into the sanctity of such engagements and if in some cases is just. Child labor is an evident problem today. Child labor has been defined as many things and
They estimate child labor at 12.6 million children working. This biased view of things was not good enough for investigators in the child labor in India. Akshay Mangla a journalist in India dug deeper and found shocking evidence that they government is underestimating the amount of children working. They presumed their census on agricultural child labor. The NGO did not seek out factory production. The NGO was questioned and they responded, “It is easier to check the attendance at school, then to census the amount of children laboring”. If one were to conclude that all children not at school were working the numbers would total at a number between 44 - 100 million children working. Akshay decided to find out why children were sent to work. According to her research most children were sent to work not because the family was desperate, but because they believed hard work was the way out of poverty. Manny people believed this and refused to send their children to school in hope that in future generations they would have the money to leave. While people with less money made sacrifices to send their children to school so that they would become educated and bring them out of poverty with a good job. The other families are putting back breaking labor on their children for low wages while the educated child can make double that in half the
If the child were educated they would have good jobs and be able to provide for their next family and send them to school. To end child labor they proposed to the government a universalization of primary schooling. They predict that students in school have a lower chance of working than those who are not enrolled. This idea would become a large part in the ILO “World Against Child Labor”. They raised money for India SSA, the overseers of education, so that they may reach the dream of education for all