Abstract on Child Labor in India
In my Government/Sociology class I was assigned a project regarding resource management. A requirement of this project was to thoroughly research a resource of my choice. I chose to focus on child labor specifically in India. After carefully researching I found that children have been severely mismanaged and exploited in India. I urge congress to help the children of India and free them of inhumane task by assisting the Indian government in their efforts to end child labor.
Children in India are currently being mismanaged by the people of India. India has laws against child labor that are meant to ensure children’s safety but have yet to enforce those laws. Although there are laws that have are meant to prevent the explanation of Indian to ensure children the government is going to need way more help to ensure their safety. The current laws regarding child labor fail at ensuring safety to children fourteen years and older at guaranteeing the safety of those children under fourteen. India lacks the resources to ensure child safety; they must be helped by a developed country that has combated it such as the United States to start child labor reform from a grass roots level. Some reasons why this issue is so hard to combat is because many employers believe that the law does not apply to them because they consider themselves “good employers” and many believe that child labor is necessary for combating extreme poverty. Too many children there is no alternative, its either child labor or poverty.
Jasmine Khatoom an eight year old child worker, states that she has often been abused by her employers for minuscule reasons such as simply being forgetful and works from hours before dawn till 11 at night daily. Sadly she is just one of the 60 million children in India that labor for extremely long hours for low to no pay. Unfortunately these children may never have a chance at becoming anything but a laborer continuously working for countless hours for meager pay.
I encourage a reform that consists of programs that provides therapy and activities for children who have escaped child labor and that provide jobs for the parents. The child labor reform should also include the prosecution of all that use children as a means of labor to discourage the hiring of children. I also would like to urge developed countries to jump start this reform by assisting the Indian government.
In my Government/Sociology class I was assigned a project regarding resource management. A requirement of this project was to thoroughly research a resource of my choice. I chose to focus on child labor specifically in India. After carefully researching I found that children have been severely mismanaged and exploited in India. I urge congress to help the children of India and free them of inhumane task by assisting the Indian government in their efforts to end child labor.
Children in India are currently being mismanaged by the people of India. India has laws against child labor that are meant to ensure children’s safety but have yet to enforce those laws. Although there are laws that have are meant to prevent the explanation of Indian to ensure children the government is going to need way more help to ensure their safety. The current laws regarding child labor fail at ensuring safety to children fourteen years and older at guaranteeing the safety of those children under fourteen. India lacks the resources to ensure child safety; they must be helped by a developed country that has combated it such as the United States to start child labor reform from a grass roots level. Some reasons why this issue is so hard to combat is because many employers believe that the law does not apply to them because they consider themselves “good employers” and many believe that child labor is necessary for combating extreme poverty. Too many children there is no alternative, its either child labor or poverty.
Jasmine Khatoom an eight year old child worker, states that she has often been abused by her employers for minuscule reasons such as simply being forgetful and works from hours before dawn till 11 at night daily. Sadly she is just one of the 60 million children in India that labor for extremely long hours for low to no pay. Unfortunately these children may never have a chance at becoming anything but a laborer continuously working for countless hours for meager pay.
I encourage a reform that consists of programs that provides therapy and activities for children who have escaped child labor and that provide jobs for the parents. The child labor reform should also include the prosecution of all that use children as a means of labor to discourage the hiring of children. I also would like to urge developed countries to jump start this reform by assisting the Indian government.
