From the 1980s through the 1990s, children in many areas of the
world benefited from new opportunities to attend school, but they
also faced new demands to support their families because of
continuing and, for many, worsening poverty. Children's Work,
Schooling, And Welfare In Latin America is a comparative study of
children, ages 12-17, in three different Latin American societies.
Using nationally-representative household surveys from Chile, Peru,
and Mexico, and repeatedly over different survey years, David Post
documents tendencies for children to become economically active, to
remain in school, or to do both. The survey data analyzed
illustrates the roles of family and regional poverty, and parental
resources, in determining what children did with their time in each
country. However, rather than to treat children's activities merely
as demographic phenomena, or in isolation of the policy
environment, Post also scrutinizes the international differences in
education policies, labor law, welfare spending, and mobilization
for children's rights. Children's Work shows that child labor will
not vanish of its own accord, nor follow a uniform path even within
a common geographic region. Accordingly, there is a role for
welfare policy and for popular mobilization. Post indicates that,
even when children attend school, as in Peru or Mexico, many
students will continue to work to support the family. If the
consequence of their work is to impede their educational success,
then schools will need to attend to a new dimension of inequality:
that between part-time and full-time students.
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