Critical Thinking

The article I will be discussing it "Kids Smuggle food for cents along war border" from CNN World. Kids as young as eight years old smuggle food across the Pakistan and Afghanistan border and are paid twenty cents or less. The journey between the two borders is long and dangerous. Along the way kids have to watch out for suicide bombers and/or getting beat by the border police. On one side these kids are risking their lifes and doing what they have to do to get their families ahead. They are putting their lifes on the line to put food on the table. Living in the most dangerous place on earth, jobs are at an all time low and their parents are struggling to find a job to support their family. These kids are doing this against their own will, but they do it to help out the family. On another side, I don't think that these kids should be throwing their life away. They instead should be going to school and getting an education so that they can get a good and most importantly safe job that pays well. This however is impossible to most kids becuase their parents can't afford to send them to school. Although UNICEF is making it possible for students to go to school they are threatend by the Taliban for going against Islamic rule. Parents can get a loan to start their own business in exchange for sending their kids to school full time but only three hundred children have been placed in school so far. Kids shouldn't have to live their life in fear or danger just to make twenty cents a day. It's good that their helping their families out but in the long run an education will be worth more.