child labor is harmful when it interferes with healthy development
by imposing inappropriate physical and social demands on children,
when it directly expose children to noxious conditions that harm them physically or psychologically,
and when it is detrimental to children’s full social and psychological development.
Children are especially vulnerable to dangerous or stressful
working conditions because they are emotionally, physically, and cognitively immature.
Child laborers are too young to understand the physical and psychological hazards they
face and are too powerless to escape them. The plight of children around the world confronted
with extreme family poverty and crime as precursors to forced labor has been the
subject of major initiatives by the United Nations.