Question

What will be effect of child labour

Answer 1

The economic growth of the country starts lagging as the number of educated people are less. Children miss out on their whole childhood if they are made to work

Answer 2

Every day, some 168 million children around the world go to work instead of school. In addition to denying them the joy and advantages of a normal childhood and education, much of the labour they undertake is dangerous and unhealthy. Most child labour can be found in developing areas, with children working in almost every sector, even in sectors considered as extremely hazardous like mining, construction and fishing.

child labour vicious circle

It depends completely on the circumstances, tasks and activities carried out if this work is hazardous for the child or not. We can assume that what is hazardous for adults will also be hazardous for children. However, children are more vulnerable since they are in physical and mental development. Children are often “achievers”, they want to perform well and are inexperienced and untrained in dealing with hazards. Tools and machines are not made for them, and thus pose more hazards.

They are also not organized and powerless. All those factors contribute to the fact that the same task carried out by children can be more hazardous for children than for adults. The effects of hazardous child labour vary from skin disease to asthma to (in the worst case) fatal injuries. Not only physical, but also mental and behavioural problems can be the result of hazardous child labour.

In May 2002, the ILO issued a global report on child labour that describes the extent of the problem