Claims, Reasons, and Assumptions

The claim that Nicholas D Kristof makes in "Put your money where their mouths are" is that stopping child labor in other countries doesn't have positive outcomes but rather has serious affects on the child and their family. The reasons that he shows to backup his claim are the lack of schools that these countries have. So if the children lose their job then they don't have a better place to go. Secondly if they lose their job then they will probably find another job with less wages and sometimes worst conditions. Sadly enough, some go into prostitution. Last of all, the children financially support their families and with out these jobs, the family will be caused to go into serious poverty. And lastly when enforced nationally can cause the whole country to enter into poverty. The assumptions that Kristof makes are on the beliefs that we have. One being that we worry about foreign children. After that we think that financial problems are the first to deal with. Last of all that we truly value the importance of an education. This causes me to believe that he assumes that his audience is some what older and interested in helping foreign countries. The questions that come to my mind when i read this article is how those who support enforcing the child labor laws haven't been able to see the serious causes that it has on the nation and on their families. Also i wonder why they wouldn't make sure that after taking them out of their jobs, that they could and would be able to get an education.