Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Child Labour in my point of view
I feel that child labour should not even have existed as it is really a very cruel thing. Imagine a child under ten working in a factory doing what an adult is supposed to do. Isn’t it very torturous for that child? Even some adults find factory work tough so how could a child take it. I think that child labour is most probably caused by poverty. Those families struck with poverty will most likely have their children working in factories and other places. I feel that those parents are really very cruel to their children and they seemed as though they don’t care about their children at all. Even though they were struck by poverty they should seek help from human rights organizations or government bodies.
In India, it has one of the highest child labour rates behind Africa. This is because India is struck by poverty and most of the families have more than five children so their daily income could not support the family. The unemployment rate in India is high so a lot of the families have nobody to support the family and has to send their children to work. Even though the Indian government has set law to ban child labour, many employers still do not care and carry on employing children to work for him or her. This is most likely because the India government only set the law but does not take any action. Even though some of the employers were caught employing children, he or she might have got away from being punished because the India government was suspected of accepting bribery and just let the criminal go. The Indian government should change its way of doing things and be stricter on child labour. Factories and employers should stop employing children to work for them.
In “Village by the Sea”, Hari was the one who supported the family as his father is a drunkard and his mother is sick. He is working in a farm growing crops. He is only twelve years old. He even had to go to Bombay to work as their family was almost always in debt. This is considered a form of child labour in India as Hari’s father is always drunk and unwilling to work so he had to work in Bombay in order to support the family.
I fervently hope that this problem would be solved and children would be able to study and enjoy their childhood.
SLAMit.DUNKit 4:48 AM
