In Zimbabwe some children work 60 hours per week picking cotton or coffee.
In Nepal children work on tea estates, some for up to 14 hours per day.
In its most extreme form, the exploitation of working children takes the form of slavery or forced labor,
still practiced in parts of Asia and Africa.
Children’s work may be pledged by parents for payment of a debt,
the children may be kidnapped and imprisoned in brothels or sweatshops,
or they may be given away or sold by families. Child labor is evidenced in the United States by children trafficking drugs in inner-city neighborhoods.