Claims, Reasons, and Assumptions

"Put your money where your mouths are" by Nicolous D Kristof was pretty interesting.The story followed  a short story line about a boy named Akbar and used his childhood as an example of the child labors he had to endure.  The author, Kristof started off in his article speaking about international labor laws and how it is detrimental for children in third-world countries. He makes it well known he isn't a fan of the child labor laws. Then he speaks on the income of the children's families and the lack of education available to those in third-world countries. The author then continues to list off a number of ways the laws negatively impact these poor families.  Then he opts to bring about a number of cases that show all these problems negatively affecting women just as it does children such as those in Bangledesh(garment industry) and Pakistan. He continues to remark on how powerless these children are without any kind of substantial income and education.
He also makes it sound like we choose to be ill-informed or perhaps pretend to ignore the situation, ''self-righteous indignation", when really the case is that we don't really know how bad things really are. I felt he had a very biased opinion against many of those of us who exist in the U.S. He would really like to make sure those international labor laws for children are changed for the better. To end his editorial he offers up some helpful solutions to many of the problems that exist. He wants to find a fix for all the problems.

       It is a good opinion editorial but I don't think it had a ton of substance to it. Kristof listed his claim, his reasons, and assumptions.  He said what he had to say and got his opinion across and he has targeted his audience pretty well.