This is what??? EXPLOITATION of, young children, in the western countries, right? But, in these Southeast Asian countries, it’s, a necessity, and this young boy’s carrying the weight of his whole families’ economic burdens on his tiny shoulder, when he should be in school, learning, but he isn’t! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
“My name is Tarta, I’d fought in TWENTY boxing matches, fifteen wins, five defeats.”, in the beliefs of the outside world, this nine-year-old young lad should be in school, studying, playing around with his fellow classmates after school. But, because Tarta was born in a poverty-stricken family background, his mother relied on the incomes he’d made to help the household survive, hoping that her son can become, a famous Thai boxer one day, so the family can be better off economically. But, because of the outbreaks of MERS-CoV, he hadn’t boxed in the ring, and he can’t wait to get back in to the ring for the matches already.
Tarta told the press reporters, “the money I made for boxing, like the tips from the fans, I’d handed it all to my mom. My mom told me, that if I keep on boxing like my older sister is doing, one of these days, I will make enough, to buy her a house, a car, to make more money for her”. But the last time he had a match was in October of 2020, and after that, all the boxing matches, came to a dead halt because of the outbreaks of MERS-CoV, and Tarta can only, sell foods with his mother on her food stand since.
There’s the loosened rules of children in the Thai boxing matches, so long as they children get consents from the parents, they’re, allowed to box in the matches. In the professional Thai boxing association, there are about 300,000 children under age fifteen who had been, registered to fight, and these children, they not only registered to fight in the formal fights, thy would also make their appearances in the celebrations of the temples and on the holidays too.
Most of the medical experts were all against underage boxing, stated how it would stunt the growths mentally and causing long-term neurological disorders too. The head of the research institute of Mahidol University’s Children & Family Development Department pointed out, that from the older boxers, they’d found the damages to the brains from boxing, there were the loss of memories, losing the control of one’s own muscles, Parkinson’s Disease, along with myasthenia gravis, and other symptoms.
Some of the members of the national congressional council once tried banning children under age twelve to fight, but the juvenile boxing matches are too popular, and there’s, a ton of profits to be, made, which caused the vote of the draft of this bill to not get to the voting tables in the end.
And this is not just out of necessity, it’s still based off of supply and demand, and these children are FORCED to fight, instead of staying in school, getting a better education, so they can have what they will need, to turn their lives around, because these parents are tired of living in poverty stricken means, so they’d, exploiting their own young, to help them make more money so they can live on easy, when it’s the parents’ jobs, to keep the children safe, to provide them a safe and security, and a not dangerous environment, and yet, these parents in these “third-world nations” such as Thailand, Cambodia, etc., etc., are using their parents to make money, because they lacked the level of education, and, this is going to be a vicious cycle, because eventually, these children won’t be able to fight in the rings anymore, due to, brain damages, lacking in swiftness, because, your reaction time will, SLOW down, as you age, and then, the next generations of young children start off in the ring again, to make more money for mommy and daddy and their families, to get by, this IS, a vicious cycle here, and, there’s, no way you can, END this, because of how poverty stricken you are, living, and the children are still, getting, exploited here.