Child Labour ! A serious Problem.

Poverty is widely considered the top reason why child work at inappropriate jobs for their ages. But there are other reasons as well - not necessarily in this order: family expectations and traditions, abuse of the child, lack of good schools and day care, lack of services such as health care, public opinion that downplays the risk of early work for children, uncaring attitudes of employers, limited choices for women. 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, children are employed because they are easier to exploit.

I have never been to India but some of my friends have. They reported seing a lot of child labour. Now I know it is forbidden in India and yet as you saw yourself it still exists. How can it be stopped? People who hire children should be fined and put in jail. People who see child labour should report it to the authorities. We also have laws against child labour in my country and I know contractors would never hire children to work on construction. The fines would be so severe and put the contractor out of business. There are however shopkeepers who employ their own children to help out in the shop. As long as the children don't miss school and are well and healthy the authorities usually don't get involved but they do if someone reports child abuse.

hi amit, i think this is something which spoil the childhood. and growth of the country. because if the childrens are working than they didn't go to school. that's a problem.i think we have to do something to stop this.

Hi Amit, I think the biggest example of child labour is you Amit please dont work as it will give rise to child labour and please help others to overcome child labour.

I do agree that child labour is a serious problem...but do you think it can be stopped completely. I don't think so..The root cause of child labour is poverty.If any parent is not able to fed their children , then the child has to work in order to feed themselves or take some burden off their parent's head. It is still better than begging and stealing. Having said that..it is still sad to see the small child working hard and losing his/her childhood under the burden of poverty. Most important thing is imparting education to such children. They should be encouraged or (forced ,if required) to complete at least Primary education so that they can get a decent job in future and erase the word "poverty" from their life.