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For many centuries, children have helped support their parents, caregivers, and other family members through work and labor. In the the past most of this work may have been done argriculturally or young girls helping with household chores or outside the home such as selling newspapers. shining or buffeing shoe, or sweeping chimneys. When the Industrial Revolution began children as young as four were working in factories that were hazardous and could have killed them. Many times small children were used in factories to crawl under machines to grab things that were dropped or fix equipment. Some young girls in extreme low poverty were used as prostitutes to make money for their families. Although child labor is put under more control in present day it still occurs. UNICEF reports that there are still 158 ages 5 to 14 are still providing labor. There are several disadvantages to woking children to hard to support a family. These disadvantages may be fatigue, trouble in school or missing school, or social learnig on how to be parents themselves

From July 1, 2009 legislation has made more laws and regulations permitting children to work and produce labor.
 * People under the age of 16 are not allowed to hold a job unless the place or person of employmen keeps a work permit.
 * Child must obtain a work permit.
 * Children 14 or 15 can only work outside school hours and no more than four hours per day and no more than 28 hours per week.
 * During the summer children can ork up to eight hour per day.
 * Some children under 18 are not permitted to do certain jobs.

Other statistics:
 * Two-thirds of high school students have jobs.
 * 50% of these kids work an average of 15 hours a week, one in six work more than 25 hours.
 * 1950, less that 5%of high school students had jobs.
 * 57% of kids that have been interviewed have said they had a job at age14

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