ARTICLE
ARTICLE ON CHILD LABOUR.
With out effecting health and personal development if any children help
their parents around their home, assists in a family business or earning money
outside school hours should not be called as child labour. These kinds of activities provide skills and
experience to the children and to the welfare of their families.
Work that deprives children of their childhood and that is harmful to
physical and mental development should called CHILD LABOUR. Child labour is
mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children. It
deprives them of the opportunity to attend school. Child labour is a crime against
humanity. Children work when they are supposed to play or go to school. It is
sad that children work under hazardous conditions. They became slaves and
separated from their families. Acute poverty is the main cause for child labour
throughout the world. These families have to send their children to work, even
if the future of these innocents is ruined, as that is the only choice open for
them to survive in this world.
Though poverty forces families to send
their children into labor, the employers find it a source of cheap labour.
Children can be beaten and bullied into doing dirty jobs. The child labour is
considered as 'forced labour' because children are rarely in a position to give
free consent to any activities performed by them as most aspects of their lives
are determined by adults.
Can we eliminate child labour? The government alone can not deal such a great problem. A change in
attitude is needed to eliminate or reduce this problem. If children of the poor
can be provided education and vocational training and if stipends accompany
such training, parents would be under less pressure to send their children to
work. But this requires a huge effort and a fresh thinking.
Whether or not particular forms of
“work” can be called “child labour” depends on the child’s age, the type and
hours of work performed the conditions under which it is performed.
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