http://www.poligazette.com/2008/06/27/child-labor-in-turkey-court-finally-does-something/ News and Analysis from Different Moderate Perspectives Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:34:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.poligazette.com/2008/06/27/child-labor-in-turkey-court-finally-does-something/#comment-59308 Robert Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:18:15 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2008/06/27/child-labor-in-turkey-court-finally-does-something/#comment-59308 I think it's easy to condemn situations like this one when we look at it with our "western eyes".Don't get me wrong, I am against child labor 100%.But there are realities in countries like Türkiye that we tend to overlook quite easily...Things like: NO unemployment benefits, NO welfare support, NO social benefits as in NO medicare, NO social assistance or services...The reality for MANY of these people is: Para yok, ekmek yok / No money, no bread.The story here might be one of abuse but then, we know nothing about the economic situation of this specific family.So unless Türkiye provides proper social services to the people in need, there will be situations like this that will certainly lead to child abuse.Now my question is: Wouldn't it have been better for the Judge to get the father a decent job, instead of sending him to jail, sending the kid to school and condemning this family to "ZERO" ytl income ? I think it’s easy to condemn situations like this one when we look at it with our "western eyes".Don’t get me wrong, I am against child labor 100%.But there are realities in countries like Türkiye that we tend to overlook quite easily…Things like:
NO unemployment benefits,
NO welfare support,
NO social benefits as in NO medicare, NO social assistance or services…The reality for MANY of these people is:
Para yok, ekmek yok / No money, no bread.The story here might be one of abuse but then, we know nothing about the economic situation of this specific family.So unless Türkiye provides proper social services to the people in need, there will be situations like this that will certainly lead to child abuse.Now my question is: Wouldn’t it have been better for the Judge to get the father a decent job, instead of sending him to jail, sending the kid to school and condemning this family to "ZERO" ytl income ?

]]>
Warning: is_writable() [function.is-writable]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(error_log) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/p6525pol:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/p6525pol/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 500