Child labor is the practice of having children engage in economic activity, on full or part time basis. Can you imagine working a twelve-hour shift everyday as a seven-year-old girl or boy? Well this is the life of many abused children in India. Because of India’s population it had the largest number of children under fourteen of age laborers in the world. Although there have been laws made to end child labor in India there is still a mass number of children under fourteen working hazardous jobs.
Who is Responsible?
There have been many controversial arguments on who is responsible for child labor in India. But the most common found answer was a few big name companies such as; Gap and Primark is why there is child labor. Also to blame is the government of India in which they cant help their own people who are in great poverty cause the children of families to take dangerous jobs.
Causes and Pressures How are there so many child laborers in India? There are many answers based on different regions and they way of life for that child because some children have a choice to work and others don’t. Children work because they were born into a poor family and are forced to work to help family finances, others work in fear of being sold or their family getting harmed if they don’t, some get tricked into accepting a job and not knowing what is involved. A large number of children get kidnapped to work in prostitution or to work in factories. The government of India is lagging to fulfill the amenities of these families and children. Child labor is spoiling the future and lives of these children and their hard working families.
Discussion of Abuses As if working at a very young age isn’t already a bad concept these children suffer horrible working efforts. One horrendous job was coal mining in which children five to fourteen of age would climb down hundreds of feet below ground to start digging for coal for hours. Another horrendous low