Child labor is the service paid
by the children in their childhood in any field of work. This is done by the
child own due to the lack of resources for the life survival, irresponsibility
of the parents or forcefully by the owner for increasing their return on
investment at low investment. It does not matter the cause of child labor as all
the causes force children to live their life without childhood. Childhood is the
great and happiest period of the lives of everyone during which one learns about
the basic strategy of the life from parents, loved ones and nature. Child labor
interferes with the proper growth and development of the children in all aspects
like mentally, physically, socially and intellectually.
Child labor has become a biggest social issue in pakistan which needs to be
solved on regular basis. It is not the responsibility of the government only, it
should be solved and taken care by all the parents, owners and other social
organizations. It is the issue of everyone which should be solved personally as
it can be happened with the child of any person.
In many developing countries child labor is very common because of the existence
of high level of poverty and poor schooling opportunities for the children. The
highest incidence rate of the child labor is still more than 50 percent in which
children of age group 5 to 14 are working in the developing country. The rate of
child labor is high in the agriculture field which is mostly found in the rural
and informal urban economy where most of the children are basically employed
into the agriculture work by their own parents instead of sending them to the
school and free them to play with friends.
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.
Child labour is the full work taken by the children in any field of work. It is
a forceful act either by the parents, bad events or owners. Childhood is the
birth rights of everyone which he/she must live under the love and care of their
parents however this illegal act of child labour forces a child to live life
like elder. It causes lack of many important things in the life of child like
improper physical growth and development, inappropriate development of the mind,
socially and intellectually unhealthy.