Child
Labor is defined as any work or economic activity performed by a child that
subjects him or her to any exploitation, or is harmful to his or her health,
safety, physical, moral, mental, and psycho-social development. It is stated in
the Rights of Filipino Children that “A child should not work before a minimum
age and never when that work will hinder their health, moral, and physical
attributes”. Children are supposed to go to school, not seeing them working,
especially doing those hazardous works.
The
latest survey of the National Statistics Office say that out of 29 million
Filipino Children, 3 million of them are engaged into Child Labor and a huge
percentage of them enters into a hazardous type of work. For me there are two leading cause why Child
Labor happens in our country, these are Poverty and lack of decent and
productive work. Poverty, in a way that the parents of the child can’t afford
to sustain the needs of their children especially education and food, that is
why children are forced to work to earn a living for them to help aggravate
their situation. Next, there is a lack of decent and productive work for the
parents. If the parents of these children don’t have a stable job the effect
would be it is hard for them to sustain the needs of their children, and
because of this, children are forced to work even though they are not yet
qualified to work. Child labor leads to different problems to the child. The
effects of Child Labor to children are; it deprives a child of a proper
childhood, they may suffer from mental and physical problems and they become
mentally and emotionally mature very fast.
Child
Labor indeed is a big problem. We all know children play a big role in shaping
the world when they grow up. It is necessary that Child Labor should be
stopped. Children should be studying at school, not seeing them doing hazardous
works. That’s why we should help each other for us to stop Child Labor, before
different bad effects start to show up.
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