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‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation’: the states pushing for 14-year-olds to serve alcohol
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023
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"Roughly 160 million children were subjected to child labour at the beginning of 2020, with 9 million additional children at risk due to the impact of COVID-19. This accounts for nearly 1 in 10 children worldwide. Almost half of them are in hazardous work that directly endangers their health and development.
Children may be driven into work for various reasons. Most often, child labour occurs when families face financial challenges or uncertainty – whether due to poverty, sudden illness of a caregiver, or job loss of a primary wage earner.
The consequences are staggering. Child labour can result in extreme bodily and mental harm, and even death. It can lead to slavery and sexual or economic exploitation. And in nearly every case, it cuts children off from schooling and health care, restricting their fundamental rights."
Lmaoooooo you are comparing working in a restaurant to sex trafficking. Top notch shit 👍🤣.
Sure, just as 'top notch' as suggesting it's good for children to make bloated plutocrat corporatists richer off the sweat of their backs rather than enjoy their childhoods because "it never hurt me."
And, by the way, what exactly do you think will happen to young teenage girls tending bar? Do you think they won't be sexually harassed by drunk older men, possibly raped?
Or did you forget that this was about allowing young girls to serve alcohol to drunk adults?
Realistically I don't think you'd even notice a blip on the radar. I've found most bars are extremely productive of staff especially women. They are far more likely to be raped at home or with friends. I think this is a lot of truthiness and imaginations running wild.
Considering it's bad for adult women working in bars... https://www.cosmopolitan.com/career/a15334055/female-bartenders-sexually-harassed-at-work/
Spoken like a true man. Go ahead and Google the percentage of women who were sexually assaulted before the age of 18.
Better yet, here's a link laurenskids.org/awareness/about-faqs/facts-and-stats/
I don't care how nice or high-end your bar is, children don't belong in a bar. And it doesn't matter how protective the bar is of staff, a place where adults gather to drink alcohol is a completely inappropriate environment for children.