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    Child labour refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives them of their childhood or the ability to attend school. It is considered exploitative and harmful to children's development. Legislation across most of the world prohibits child labour, though some exceptions exist. An estimated 1 in 4 children in the world's poorest countries are engaged in child labour, with the highest rates in sub-Saharan Africa. Poverty is widely considered the primary driver of child labour, as families struggle to survive and children are forced to work to support their families instead of attending school.

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    Child labour refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives them of their childhood or the ability to attend school. It is considered exploitative and harmful to children's development. Legislation across most of the world prohibits child labour, though some exceptions exist. An estimated 1 in 4 children in the world's poorest countries are engaged in child labour, with the highest rates in sub-Saharan Africa. Poverty is widely considered the primary driver of child labour, as families struggle to survive and children are forced to work to support their families instead of attending school.

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    Child labour refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives them of their childhood or the ability to attend school. It is considered exploitative and harmful to children's development. Legislation across most of the world prohibits child labour, though some exceptions exist. An estimated 1 in 4 children in the world's poorest countries are engaged in child labour, with the highest rates in sub-Saharan Africa. Poverty is widely considered the primary driver of child labour, as families struggle to survive and children are forced to work to support their families instead of attending school.

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    Child labour 

    refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their
    childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically,
    socially or morally dangerous and harmful.[3] This practice is considered exploitative by
    many international organisations. Legislation across the world prohibit child labour.[4][5] These laws do
    not consider all work by children as child labour; exceptions include work by child artists, family
    duties, supervised training, certain categories of work such as those by Amish children, some forms
    of child work common among indigenous American children, and others.[6][7][8]

    In the world’s poorest countries, around 1 in 4 children are engaged in child labour, the highest
    number of whom (29 percent) live in sub-saharan Africa.[12] In 2017, four African nations (Mali, Benin,
    Chad and Guinea-Bissau) witnessed over 50 percent of children aged 5–14 working.[12] Worldwide
    agriculture is the largest employer of child labour.[13] The vast majority of child labour is found in rural
    settings and informal urban economy; children are predominantly employed by their parents, rather
    than factories.[14] Poverty and lack of schools are considered as the primary cause of child labour.

    Child labor is one of the biggest problems around the world because it puts children in
    danger. It is basically utilizing that under aged children in any form forcing them to work
    which abuse, harms or violet them. This abuse may be physical, mental or sexual
    denying the children of their rights of basic education. This problem is increasing in
    many countries that are because of poverty and other issues, but poverty is the most
    reason for causing child labor. (1 2 3 Help Me. Internet resources.)

    There are many different causes of “bad” child labor around the world. Parents are one
    of the causes for child labor especially illiterate parents. Some parents are not able to
    work so they force their children to work instead of them. Hence, children are more
    easily employed because they get less money paid than adults and they are easier to get
    abused. Other cause that is the seedbed of child labor and the biggest cause for child
    labor is Poverty. In some poor countries, the government doesn’t help poor families by
    providing education, health care or find for them work to get money. So, in this case
    parents are forced to send their children to work and get money to their parents.
    Ignorance for the rights of child to be educated and not to be abused, so there are
    some parents that are rich but they spend their money on drinking, buying drugs…
    they force their children to work. Otherwise, the children can be beaten or can be
    abused by their parents so children are forced to leave the home. And when they leave
    home also they are forced to work because they lost the protection and they need to
    get me to survive alone in this hard life. (“Child Labour”. OVC Support. Internet
    resources.)

    Most societies expect children to do form of work. So, children are expected to play a
    part in family work from an early age. This will lead to harmful effects of child labor
    including low pay. Employers think that abusing children is easier than adults, so
    children are often paid much less for work done than adults. Long hours, some children
    are expected to work excessive hours that will result by physical harm. Also, one of the
    effects of child labor is losing education and taking their rights. Working children will
    lead for physical harm in many ways, because of long hours of working the body of the
    child cannot hold hard work as man therefore they will suffer from physical harms. Also,
    Children working in factories that contain big machines may cause the children to cut
    their hands or hurt themselves. Children that work in the street are also at risk of
    physical violence from police officers. Also, they may face in the street strangers or
    thieves that would steal their money. Children that work in street may get sick because
    of the bad weather and they don’t have money to buy clothes. Also, children that work
    in factories that contain toxic gases may lead for bad diseases for children. children that
    work in any place but especially in factories and street may be abused sexually. Physical,
    sexual or emotional abuse can leave severe impact on the child for years. It can cause
    several problems in the in the physical and emotional development of the child. Some
    other common psychological effect of child abuse is behavior problem attention
    problem, or drug abuse. These all psychological abuse for child will lead to be a bad
    person in future when he/she grows up. They will make bad things because when they
    were children their rights were taken from them and they were abused. Therefore, they
    will hurt other people abuse them, steal, taking drugs, poor relationship with the
    opposite sex, and do bad things that with done for them when they were children.
    (Buzzle. Internet resources.)

    Exploitative child labor is a huge problem affecting the world today. Some people think
    it impossible to end exploitative child labor. There are possible solutions, though. One
    step towards eradicating child labor is creating international laws that countries can
    adopt in order to stop child labor. Governments can play a key role in eliminating child
    labor by passing laws that ban child labor under a certain age. But in some countries
    these laws aren’t enforced. So, government must work more to enforce these laws so
    that it can make a positive impact on decreasing child labor. Sometimes, child labor is
    caused because parents do not have steady jobs or enough income. Therefore,
    governments must support these poor countries in order to decrease the number of
    children working in streets. Children need to learn and write. Also, governments must
    make education free and compulsory up until the minimum legal age for employment.
    Hence, governments of all countries must take harsh measure against child trafficking.
    Replacing child worker by adult workers is a solution for child labor.
    (library.thinkquest.org/03oct/…/globalsolutions.htm)

    Child labor is a complex problem that requires comprehensive, multifaceted solution.


    The most important solution is to give children their right to be educated, protected,
    and to ask actual child labor what they think the best solution would be, since it is they
    who would actually be affected. Child labor is a repulsive problem that must be faced to
    save the future of those children. (library.thinkquest.org/03oct/…/globalsolutions.htm)

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