Child Labour
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Will the world stop fighting and look at the other side please ….Child Labor…
Stop for a minute and think!
India
accounts for the second highest number where child labour in the world
is concerned. Africa accounts for the highest number of children
employed and exploited. The fact is that across the length and breadth
of the nation, children are in a pathetic condition.Children are compelled to work for long working hours with inadequate or no rest period. Moreover, they are paid with minimum wages and enjoy no job security. Many people prefer to employ young boys to maximize services for those minimum wages. 17.5 percent of children in the aged 5 are engaged in economic activities. Many of these children are engaged in various hazardous occupations in manufacturing factories..
Causes of Child Labour
Today
one of the greatest maladies that has spread across the world is that
of child labor, coupled with child abuse. It is a very scary thought
when each year statistics show increasing numbers. And this is not a
problem afflicting under-developed or developing nations, but also
developed countries, though the numbers are comparatively less.
There
are a number of experts around the world who are working towards
controlling the numbers, and eventually eradicating the problem. Seems
like a difficult and nearly impossible task, but then all the same
immense efforts are being made in this direction.
The
first step to solve any problem is to be aware of it. And the prime
focus is to be aware of the causes of child labour. The following causes
listed, though from the Indian prospective, are also the contributing
factor to child exploitation in other nations…
The
leading reason is poverty. Families need additional sources of income.
And unfortunately their poverty-stricken way of life makes them so
ruthless that they sell their children as commodities to exploitive
employers. Most such employers pay a lump sum for the child and then
keep him or her imprisoned within the factory unit till the child cannot
work due to deteriorating health as a result of harsh living and
working conditions. A hard and terrifying truth about child labor in
India!
Truth about child labor in India!
Most traditional families believe that a child is born to them to earn more money for the family. The child is just another source of income. And traditional business families in fact put the child into the business rather than sending them to school. Under the pretext of training them, they make them work long hours, sometimes resorting to physical torture in case the child makes mistakes.
Child abuse is another cause for child labor. This is more so in the case of the girl child, who has probably been abused by someone at home, and to hide this fact she is sold to an employer from a city as domestic help, or then as a bride to an old man.
Lack of proper educational facilities force parents to send their children to work, rather than keeping them at home and giving them a home-based education, along with a happy and innocent childhood playing amongst other children.
Most traditional families believe that a child is born to them to earn more money for the family. The child is just another source of income. And traditional business families in fact put the child into the business rather than sending them to school. Under the pretext of training them, they make them work long hours, sometimes resorting to physical torture in case the child makes mistakes.
Child abuse is another cause for child labor. This is more so in the case of the girl child, who has probably been abused by someone at home, and to hide this fact she is sold to an employer from a city as domestic help, or then as a bride to an old man.
Lack of proper educational facilities force parents to send their children to work, rather than keeping them at home and giving them a home-based education, along with a happy and innocent childhood playing amongst other children.
"The
parents of child labourers are often unemployed or underemployed,
desperate for secure employment and income. Yet it is their children -
more powerless and paid less - who are offered the jobs. In other words,
says UNICEF, children are employed because they are easier to exploit."
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