By definition any company hiring children in China is doing it illegally. By definition any company hiring children in China and working for Apple is doing it

By definition any company hiring children in China is doing it illegally. By definition any company hiring children in China and working for Apple is doing it (one hopes) in secret and without Apple's consent. Given those two premises, it's not hard to extrapolate that said company is unlikely to place a high priority on avoiding inhumane treatment of said children. Child labor and humane treatment of workers do not go hand in hand. After all, if you are paying fair wages and have good working conditions, why would you choose to hire children instead of adults? > After all, who in the right mind would send their child to work at such an early age is they don't have to? Many people. You don't think any child is working because her parents ignorantly don't see any value in an education? Your view that parents are universally well-intentioned and know how to make the right choices for their children is as naive as the view that no child would be better off working than going to school. Unless you think China has the capacity to inspect every home to make an individual determination of a child's right to work, I think most of us prefer it be universally banned than universally allowed.