User:Heather.Richmond

I am a student at Drake University majoring in Psychology and Sociology. I have created my page for my Global Youth Studies class in an effort to explore Wikipedia. The key interests for me in Global Youth Studies, is identifying how youth is defined and portrayed in other societies.

The subject that interested me was expanding the Child labor laws in the United States, minus the United States. When searching child labor laws it automatically redirects the page to child labor laws in the United States. It is great that the laws in the United States in covered as well as it is, but what about the rest of the world? I am looking at expanding this page on a more global level.

I am considering starting a new page separate from that of the United States. I think it will be easier to have a separate global page for the child labor laws and have the one for the United States linked. This would also make it easier for anyone else to expand or create separate links for laws specifically in other countries. This would also allow the United States page to stay as is or be edited per laws that may change in the United States.

There are a few topics I intend to cover on the new page. The first is a brief global history of child labor laws. The United States page has a good representation of what has transpired in the U.S., but not what has happened globally. I also would like to highlight laws throughout the world and possibly some countries that do not have any. Lastly, I would like to include organizations that are trying to change the laws, or lack of laws, in countries where child labor is still currently used. I will search for these organizations and create links where they exist.