Child Labour

Child labor is an important topic that is being debated as a serious social issue all around the
world. Keeping the society aware of this issue will help to avoid such illegal and inhuman
activity from destroying the lives of many children.

Child Labor is something that replaces the normal activities a child, like education, playing, etc.,
by economic activities. These economic activities may be paid or unpaid work, which benefits
the family of the child or the owner the child work’s for. The age limit is restricted to fourteen
years or even seventeen years in case of dangerous works.

Reason for Child Labor:

Children may be forced to do child labor because of poverty and financial problems in their
family. Many owners accept child labors since they only need a less amount as salary or even
some accept non-monetary jobs too.

Children are often made to do such hard jobs by their irresponsible parents. They send their kids
for domestic works for the money as well as for food they get through these works. These
demanding works often spoil the childhood and give a harder way of living to the kid.

Parents allow their children for such jobs because of lack of awareness too. When they are too
poor to take admissions in schools and the lack of good schools in their locality may also lead to
such activities.

Types of Child Labor:

Not all form of jobs done by children are considered as child labor, but there are some things to
note while categorizing them. Whether the job done mentally, morally, physically and socially
affect the child in a dangerous way? Does the job done affect their education and other childhood
activities like playing? The job they do shouldn’t be both tiring and excessive that they are
forced to avoid other activities they should be doing in their age. These are the characteristics of
Child Labor.

In extreme ways, there are owners who treat children like slaves and separate them from their
families to do such hard jobs. Whatever be the job done, child labor depends on the age of the
kid involved, type of activity and hours of work they do per day.

As a conclusion, children are meant to be enjoying their childhood and should be allowed to
educate themselves at early ages. There are many schemes introduced by the government to
reduce such child labors like providing free education and taking severe actions against those
who promote child labor.

One of the cruelest crimes that are done to the children is the child labor in which the kids are
forced to do work at a tiny age. They are compelled to earn like adults for supporting their
families economically. As per the International Labour Organization, the children who have not
attained the age of 15 should not get forcefully involved in any kind of work.

Employing children in work at an early age make their childhood deprived of the right to
education along with the lack of mental, physical and social welfare. Child labor is prohibited in
certain nations, but still, it is a global concern in maximum countries for rescinding the kid’s
future predominantly.

As per the Indian law, the children under the 14 years of age should not be hired to any work at
the workshops, organizations or restaurants. Their parents cannot also force them to do any job.

Different Causes of Child Labour:

There are numerous causes of child labor like repression of child rights, poverty, improper
education, limited rules and laws on child labor, etc. The reasons for the child labor are almost
the same in different nations.

The following are the various causes of child labor:

i. The high level of unemployment and the problem of poverty in developing countries are the
primary cause of child labor. As per the statistics of U.N. in the year 2005, over 1/4th of the
people globally are living below the poverty line.

ii. The lack of right to regular education is one of the reasons for child labor in numerous nations.
According to the research done in the year, 2006, nearly 76 million kids have not seen the face of
the school.

iii. Violating the regulations about the child labor has also provided the way to enlarge this
problem in developing nations.

iv. Insufficient social control has resulted in an increasing percentage of child labor in the region
of domestic work or agriculture.

v. Small kids have to get involved in the child labor to add up in the income of their family so
that they can eat food for at least two times a day.

vi. They are employed by the industries at the decreased labor expenses to get extra work done.

Probable Solutions to the Child Labour

With the purpose to eradicate the problem of: child labor from society, there is the necessity to
follow certain effective way out on a serious basis to protect the future of an emerging nation.

Below are some probable solutions to avoid the issue of child labor:
i. Constructing new unions might benefit in stopping child labor since it will inspire more people
to support against the point of child labor.

ii. The parents should consider the education of their children as the priority from their
childhood. In this movement, the schools should also cooperate by providing free education to
the children without any obstruction.

iii. There should be a high level of social awareness regarding child labor with the accurate
statistics of enormous damage in the future for any emerging nation.

iv. Every single family should earn their minimum earnings with the purpose of surviving and
preventing the problem of child labor. It will also decrease the number of people living below the
poverty line in the country which ultimately reduces the child labor cause.

v. There is the requirement of more strict and effective government rules against the child
employment with the aim of preventing the kids from working at their early age.

vi. The issue of child trafficking must be abolished by the different nation’s governments.

vii. The child laborers must be substituted by the adult labors so that the adult can get the job and
kids get free from the child labor.

viii. The opportunities for employment for the adults must be increased for adults to decrease the
issue of poverty as well as child labor.

ix. Trade proprietors of manufacturing work, businesses, mines, etc., must have the pledge of not
employing any kid in any labor.

Conclusion:

Child labor is one of the broad social issues that require getting resolved on an urgent basis. This
step is incomplete without the support of parents as well as the government. Kids carry a
flourishing prospect of any developing nation. Thus, they should be a considerable concern of all
the citizens.

Children should get appropriate chance to grow and develop inside the contented surroundings of
school and family. People should not use them for their earnings or for-profit motive. Children
have full right to live their personal life with proper education.