Countries
This huge continent has the highest number of child workers in the world today.
Africa
This word describes jobs that are unsafe for a kid's body, like mining or construction.
Dangerous
Child labor is bad for a kid's brain because it keeps them out of ________.
School
Kids usually have to work because their families are dealing with extreme ________ and need money for food.
Poverty
This type of big workplace with machines is where many American kids had to work instead of going to school in the 1800s.
Factory
This large country is known for forcing minority groups to work in factories making solar panels.
China
Kids in Brazil risk falling out of giant trees to pick this purple fruit used in smoothies.
Acai Berry
Working all day means kids don't have any free time to ________, which helps them learn and grow.
Play
Child labor is bad because it takes away a kid's ________ and stops them from just being a kid.
Childhood
In 1938, the US government made a law that finally set a minimum ________ so bosses couldn't hire very young kids anymore.
Age
This country close to the US started a program that gave parents cash if their kids stayed in school.
Mexico
Spraying chemicals to kill bugs on crops can make a working child's body very ________.
Sick
If a kid works a lot of hours, they are usually too ________ to do their homework.
Tired
Most child labor doesn't happen in factories. Over 60% of it is just kids working in ________ fields.
Farming
A man named Lewis Hine took real ________ of working kids to show the public how bad it was.
Photos/Pictures
In this European country, young kids were found digging in muddy holes for amber rocks.
Ukraine
There are 138 ________ kids working globally, and almost half of them do dangerous jobs.
Million
Kids who drop out to work usually stay poor as adults, which keeps the problem going for the next ________.
Generation
Counting child labor can be tricky because girls often do hidden work at home like cooking, cleaning, and other family ________.
Chores
Today in the US, it is still legal for kids to do outdoor chores and work on a family ________.
Farm
Kids work way longer hours in Bangladesh than they do in this nearby country known for Mount Everest.
Nepal
Kids working on fishing boats often don't get enough clean ________ to drink, which makes them dehydrated.
water
Poor parents can't borrow money from a ________ to pay for school, so they have to send their kids to work.
Bank
For little kids, working even just ________ hour a week at a regular job counts as child labor.
One
Long ago in the year 1900, child labor in America was just as common as it is in poor countries ________.
Today/Right now