At what stage in life the child will get personal rights? Until the twentieth century children's rights based on local practices. Infanticide in Polynesia, for example, is speculated to have existed as a way to keep population in check despite the fact that the island residents had plenty of food and lived in a tropical paradise. Deformed children are routinely killed in the ancient civilizations instead of providing care to persons with disabilities as we do today by social services. Human sacrifice is well documented in various countries around the world especially in the Atacama Desert region of South America where the mummified remains of Inca children routinely detected. Children's rights were virtually until the missionaries traveled the world in an attempt to make the world a "civilized" by Christianity. In a primitive society refined infant mortality from infanticide and human sacrifice decreased in most cases. It was not until the separation of church and state that many of the ideals of human conservation is repealed especially in children abortions. Many suggest a child's rights should be enforced immediately after fertilization of the egg. Others suggest a child protected by law once a separate heartbeat is detected in the uterus. Some people believe that a mother should have an absolute right to determine their child's fate just before the cut cord.Since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Court, we have a set of preference generated by the Supreme Court of the Untied States which ruled the women have a constitutional protected right to determine a child's fate in the early stages of pregnancy and freedom from government interference. But the law will be constantly challenged by individuals who believe in "right to choose" should be extended to official separation from birth. This is an issue that we recently the Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and other selected candidates in the future have to decide that in 1973 they are constantly challenged by activists for and against the ruling. We take most of our rights for granted. You get up when you want a leisurely breakfast, working anywhere from 8 then hopefully to 10 hours to enjoy a good dinner before you watch television and go to bed. Imagine having no rights for a moment. Can you stand being told to get up, eat, go to work and sleep? This is what happens to children around the world every day. They are bought, sold, traded over worked, abused and treated like a commodity. Children have no rights. It was not until the Industrial Revolution, children were given special rights to protect them from unfair labor practices. In my forthcoming book entitled American Hero children in Manhattan after the Civil War are treated as expendable machines. With very few social programs to assist the exploding population, orphaned children are bought and sold to carry hazardous occupations from dawn to dusk or victims for profit. The picture on the left is a typical scene in the early 1900s before the National Child Labor Committee in 1904 worked hard to eliminate child labor in America and offer training on site. It was not until the Fair Labor Standards Act 1938, which sets federal standards for child labor in the United States. Today, many countries still use child labor on huge profits. Guilty countries like India has an estimated 70 million children as young as 11 are working in sweatshops for less than a dollar a day. According to a recent survey by the BBC suggests that in Bangladesh, one of 10 children are currently working in the country that legally allows child labor to exist. Fortunately, thanks to several organizations unfair child labor practices are exposed. It was not until after World War II as a United Nations International Children's Fund was founded to help homeless children in war-torn cities. Today, the organization officially known as UNICEF, which started a convention on the rights of children worldwide. The organization provides protection against human trafficking, offers education and other necessities to children who can not support themselves. The images you see in this article were taken over a span of one hundred years, but abuse and neglect remain. Boy sewing in southern IndiaThe Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified in 1990 and the Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations proclaimed that childhood is entitled to special care and assistance and should be offered the necessary protection and assistance so that they can grow up and take responsibility in society. The starting point is to give dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality and solidarity for children in all countries worldwide. But without a legal system in countries like India sustain the proposed Statement, we will never put an end to child exploitation on a worldwide basis. In America, legal rights of children as the United States Bar Association and Children's Rights Litigation Committee began to address a child's rights in all aspects of the justice system. The Committee provides pro bono (free) lawyers to represent children in the United States seeking legal advice. Children who need help with child abuse and neglect cases be provided with legal advice and help to protect the child's right to an education. As global standards should be introduced to give a child the right to eat, sleep, play and develop into a young adult instead of being forced into slavery and worked for over 14 hours per day? We must expose countries with child labor laws or speculative that it will never be an end to such abuses. Children will be bought and sold for profit as animals for sale to the world decides to stop such immorality.
