Killing Of Innocence - Child Labor

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Priyanka Bhadouria
Apr 05, 2019   •  34 views

Child labor has become a common practice these days. Present day of poor Indian child is very dark. Child labor is a violation of human rights. Article 24 of the Constitution of India, 1950 says, No child below the age of fourteen years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or employed in any hazardous employment.

From time to time I wonder whether some people are merely stupid or whether they are inherently evil. They are playing with the moral of the innocent people and their kids. Protecting children from the child labor is the responsibility of each and every citizen living in the country. Child labor is the socio-economic issue which is coming from long ago and now need to be solved on ultimate basis.

Certainly children should not have to work for a living .Childhood is when a person needs nurturing, schooling ,time to time play and explore, the opportunity to grow both emotionally and physically.

Where a child is forced to work ,it hampers her growth, stunts herpsychological and intellectual development and restricts the child to know his full potential .Child labor is an unmitigated evil and any society that is being a part of it should be grossly ashamed of that fact.

In developing countries, the rate of the child labor is high because of the 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 by their parents in the rural areas. Poverty and lack of schools are the primary reasons of child labor in any developing country all across the world.

Poor people do not love their children any less than the rich people. It is dire necessity that forces them to take that drastic step. It is a choice that they make after considering the alternatives. It is rational response to an unbearable condition.

I don’t see how banning child labor can help the cause of extremely poor children. How about throwing the parents of children who work into prison? Seems to me that this policy would have equally “beneficial” consequences .How about increasing the fines on those people who employ these little children for labor? .This will reduce the number of children exposed to labor and also will reduce the income of the people who employ them instead of an increase in their income. The evils of child labor cannot be vanished away. The way out is to address the complex of causes which leads to the effect which is millions of children being denied a childhood

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The rational solution would involve, first of all, implementing policies which prevent the birth of too many unwanted children. Next, make it a law that a child laborer has to be paid the same wages as an adult. This would give employers no reason to employ children when for the same wages they can have an adult worker.

Finally, provide very poor parents a monthly stipend if their children attend school regularly. This would help them earn money without sending their children for work.

I should stress that all of the above mentioned should be done .And not just that even more should be done for these children.

The issue of the child labor has now been an international concern as it highly involved in inhibiting the growth and development of the country. Healthy children are the bright future and power of any country thus child labor is damaging, spoiling and destroying the future of the children and finally the country.

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