Poverty & Child Labour

Child labour involves the regular working of children in their childhood at very young age from five to fourteen years. Children in many developing countries are forced to work hard for the whole day against their will at very low pay for their survival. They want to go to school, play with their friends and need love and care of their parents like other children living in rich houses. But unfortunately, they are forced to do work against their will.

In developing countries, the rate of the child labour is high because of poverty, low level awareness for education and poor schooling opportunities. Most of the children of age group 5 to 14 are found to be involved in the agriculture helping their parents in the rural areas. Poverty and lack of schools are the primary reasons of child labour in any developing country all over the world.

Childhood is considered as the happiest and vital experience in the life of everyone as childhood is the most important and friendly period of learning. Children have full rights to get proper attention from their parents, love and care from their parents, proper schooling, guidance, playing with friends and other happy moments. Child labour is destroying the lives of many innocent children every day. It is a high level of illegal act for which one should be punished but because of the ineffective rules and regulations it is growing enormously.

Nothing effective is happening to prevent the child labour from society as quickly as possible. Children are too young and innocent to realize the things happening to them in their early age. They are unable to realize that it is wrong and illegal. These children are happy in getting a little payment for their work. Unknowingly they become interested in getting money on a daily basis unknown of the fact that it is ruining their life.