The children are more likely to work when their parents income is low and there are living in poverty to help out their family. It is a norm that when the adult members in the household cannot make enough money, the children are expected to do work. Sometimes the parents work with their kids because in some occupations they are paid on the output rather than the time. Besides poverty, societys traditions play a role on child labor. In the northern areas of Brazil, it is common that the people who are parents now started working before they were eight years old to because it was their belief that it was okay to work at that age. The concept of working at a young age was a common behavior, so the parents now do not see the problem with making their children work. Another reason why parents send their children to work is because of the conditions in the public schools. In rural areas, primary schools are located far from each other and the secondary schools are only located in the bigger areas. The schools in rural areas usually lack the required funding needed to be equipped for students and it allow the children to not have t
he best education environment. Education is required for children aged seven to fourteen, but it is not very strict. Connecting to the poverty argument, these parents cannot afford the proper school equipment to help them succeed in their education. Ninety percent of children working in rural areas attend school for less than four years and instead they work.
Compared to the United States, BrazilΒs children are making little to none. There was not much evidence that was said about children making money, but there was something that stated that they make money off their output rather than time. No matter what, in the United States, workers will always make a certain page for their time, even if nothing was being produced. The child labor provisions that the U.S. and Brazil have are a somewhat similar because they do not allow, or they restrict work for minors under 6. The difference for this labor condition between the two countries is that in the U.S. the restriction include lists of hazardous occupations for minors and they need to be at least 6 to work with hazardous work while Brazils age is 8 to work with hazardous work.