Reaction Paper on Hidden Heads of Household

Alma GuardadoProfessor TurkonOctober 11, 2018Reaction Paper on unsung Heads of Household1.Within Brazil, poor children are found in situations that they cant escape cod to extreme poverty and globularization and even culture. Children are sometimes considered peak of households, due to their parents inability to run sufficient income, hence, they would be ferocityd to assist. akin for instance, when a mother can non pass away due to pregnancy or staying billet to take care of the infants, children would be likely to work to replace their mother, I documentaryized that it was the shrimpyst one who was getting the most bullion.So, I let them go alone, until today. (Kenny, 1997, p.97) Due, to the low amount of oeuvre available, families must move around oftentimes to available jobs, which most likely guide them to overcrowded, violent favela nearby. Culture and politicians contribute into the factor that poor children within these situations, since children fool the min dset that they are hopeless and must work in dirty conditions and politics would lie that they would back up on gas, light and water bills. However, they do non. They just wanted a vote. Children are forced upon their situation based on their family situation and poverty.2.In Brazil, globalization and economy are global influences that foster child jab. Child craunch was influence due to the amplify of wealth, since it brought upon an increase of poverty and inequality. A global shift in production resulted into the growth of favelas, where more children were born into. In those horrible conditions they were forced to find a job at a young age to father for in their plates every night.Also, due to the increase of capital investment in factories in Brazil where the toil is cheap, labor laws are not enforced brought upon more increase of children working there. Also, pulverization owners takered children since they can pay them fewer wages. The increase of economy brought up on the lust of more workers to be able produce more goods.3.As the former emphasizes how she allow for give details, and the problematic study allow result into good results, I honest expected more. I tangle it could be consider an using method, but not a study that led to good result. Yes, it did back up numerous programs to be formed, yet exploitation does the selfsame(prenominal). It did not impact the livelong situation in a large extent, it pushed positively, but it did not force individuals to stop and wonder what they could do to change the problem.It does a good job, stress the suffering young children are faced and provokes us readers to feel benignity and heartache knowing what is happening to them. However, does not give valid results, since the programs are not enforced they are created, yet not pushed forward into action. The author herself can use the situation for her benefit for her research. there was no real solution for her study.4.Global tourism is on e of the issues that affect the lives of many children damagingly and positively based on the description given in the book. Some children will arrive at 8 am at the tourist location, to exploit for tourist for money, however, sometimes they frequently were solitary(prenominal) offered food, but the kids wanted money due to the easier way to split money among each other and be able to buy what they want with it and hang on to some.Another, positive face of tourism was that they brought employment to male children like guides, vendors and based on the enjoyment they might be able to gain extra money or food additionally from their fee for tours. But, for girls sometimes global tourism would be a negative aspect for them, since most of the time they could not generate the same jobs as boys due to their physical appearance, hence, they would work in the enkindle industry.Sexual relationship with foreigners was in the hopes for young women, since it was a strategy for them to us e up with poverty, and a commit for travel and material goods. Girls with low-esteem preferred foreigners to Brazilian men, since they plan they treated them better and believed in the hopes of opportunities would come around. In their perspective they believed they were adroit since even if they lacked the formal education and financial safety net, they provided money to their family and felt some statues with their peers. The tourist industry brought exploitation of the poor children, however, at the same time brought hopes.5.The author refers to agent they mean a representative of the integral community or household on their behalf. Specifically, the agents the author refers to is the children, since they are actually the spokesperson telling their own reality of the harsh situations they are veneering. In fact, the children should be agents in crafting policies that affect their situation, since it directly affects them.They are the ones who are facing poverty, low wages a nd harsh conditions and sometimes even the responsibility to have to put money on the table for their family. A fourteen-year-old child should not have the responsibility to work and not be able to receive an education, so why shouldnt they be able to craft the policies that are modify their own lives. Its not the politicians nor the high-income class or even the adults who are being directly affect, its the children.They are the ones who are working and facing conditions that most individuals do not face at their age and no one unfeignedly knows what goes on in their lives, since yes we can research about it, but it does not mean we face it every day like they do, so they should be ones who craft the certain policies rather than those viewing them as sweet little victims.6. Globalization isnt a tool to eliminate child labor in Brazil or elsewhere. It may be able to increase the employment and even the earnings to poor households in developing countries. But, the more desire for export products led to an increase of demand for labor, however, not towards adults. Within factories, they would prefer children since they could pay them less for their labor.Also, their shortness was desirable, since they could fit in small holes and infra machines. (Kenny, 1997, p.7) Adults would be unemployed, or those in Brazil will work along with their children in the mills or textile factories. Altogether, globalization brought a negative effect, since when Brazil created a minor code to restrict children into working only six hours, parents did not like the idea which didnt led to the enforcement, nor was there an excretion of child labor.Also, the global shift increased the growth of urban favelas, which led poverty becoming deeper in Brazil and those who most likely work in factories would live in poverty, due to their low income. Globalization brings a desire for interaction of economy and prosperity, with no consideration of how children are treated. There is a more focus on the products than those creating the products.Kenny, M. L. (1997). Hidden heads of households Child labor in Northeast Brazil.