What is the best solution to prevent child labor?

Government to make it compulsory for all children below certain age e.g. < 18 etc. must go to school and not allow to be idle or work anywhere.

Social awareness will be the major component.

Limit children birth in a family, then provide government funding to child

What is the best solution to prevent child labor?

Government to make it compulsory for all children below certain age e.g. < 18 etc. must go to school and not allow to be idle or work anywhere.

families should be aware about child spacing and their children rights to have a shelter , food , clothing and education so parents should know these rights and they should do their best to provide it so child labor and be avoided

Apart from the insightful responses of the colleagues, in my opinion, those who push children to labor should be punished.

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What is the best solution to prevent child labor?

Awareness, teaching etc doesn't over come hunger, in order to overcome child labor seriously.....government should provide jobs to the jobless parents....if cant, then at least government should bear the expense of a child till certain age....as this practice is going on in many of the countries...

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Educate and encourage poor people to not have many children.

I agree with Dr.Ahmed

Educate and empower the child.

I agree with the fact that Government should make legislative rules that prevent certain age from working

Thanks for the answer, but the laws exist and yet did not limit that problem

I will try to conduct a study to identify the real causes of this problem. Is the case study the appropriate method to study it?

I agree with Arben J Salihu

Seven Solutions to Stop Child Labor:

1. Laws: Bringing in laws that makes it illegal for children to work until they reach a certain age makes it much easier to combat a culture of child labor. In addition, laws can be brought in that ensure that when teenagers do begin to work, they are not allowed to work beyond a certain maximum number of hours and they are paid a minimum wage. Such laws do not just provide an explicit statement that child labor and child exploitation are wrong. They also provide a framework and a set of prerogatives which mean that anyone who wants to challenge child labor has the official backing of the government.

2. Reduce poverty: Poverty is a key reason for the existence of child labor. When a family lives in poverty, they may very often end up sending their children out to work at a young age – even if everyone else in the family is working as well, when wages are very low, additional child labor may be needed to support the whole family. This situation is exacerbated if one or both parents is absent, has fallen ill or has passed away. So, reducing poverty in communities helps to support families and means that they do not need to send their children out to work.

3. Education: Studies show time and time again that providing free and good quality education to all children around the world helps to reduce the incidence of child labor. This is especially the case if schools provide free meals and uniforms so that poor families do not have to go without necessary things in order to send their children to school. Education widens children’s perspectives and shows them that they have so many more options in life than simply to labor at arduous, low paid jobs from childhood into old age.

4. Ethical consumerism: By spending their money wisely or inadvisedly, consumers can help to halt or can (often inadvertently) support child labor. By investigating the companies that you buy from and refusing to hand over your cash to companies that deploy child labor, you can stop funding sweatshops and other unethical businesses that are taking away the childhoods of young people across the globe. Do not be seduced by the often cheaper prices that sweatshop made goods can be associated with: these cheap prices come as a result of employing children, making adults work excessively long hours, and sometimes even employing slave labor. Child labor can also be involved in designer goods, too: many of the metals found in expensive cellphones, for example, have been mined by children.

5. Look after your employees: If you run a company, make sure to set a good example in terms of how you treat your employees. Do not just adhere to the minimum legal requirements for fair labor, but go beyond them, ensuring that everyone who works for you is taken great care of. If you set a shining example as an employer, you will have a knock on effect, as other employers will start to follow your example.

6. Be alert, and ready to act: Keep your eyes open and if you see any examples of child labor occurring do not be afraid to report them. If you have spare time, you could also train to work on a helpline, giving advice and support to children dealing with a variety of problems – including child labor. So many people just shut their eyes to the issue of child labor, refusing to see it when it is right in front of their face or refusing to inquire as to where that brand new laptop or that cheap new pair of pants came from.

7. Donate to charities: Donate your money to charities that help children to escape the trap of child labor. Donate, too, to charities that work to end poverty and lack of education more generally because these are two factors that contribute especially heavily to conditions in which child labor can flourish. Sometimes, we are too busy or simply not in the right place to dedicate ourselves to the fight against child labor. Fortunately, there are dedicated charity workers out there who do spend almost every day tackling this issue and our money can help them to keep up their good work.

For more information you can link: https://www.importantindia.com/25318/solutions-to-stop-child-labor/

Best regards

Respect for children and knowledge that they are future leaders. Standing up for their rights all the time. Cultural renaissance has a lot to offer us in this regard.

Thank you for your interest in the question

Good questions and excellent answers.

Maybe increase the access to a high-quality educational system at all levels, for all children. Increase the source of income of their parents, or increase the offer of the job for them. Fight to decrease the cases of corruption in government.

Very painful

في وضعنا وظروفنا الكل يعلم العوامل التي ادت الى ان يترك الكثير من الاطفال المدرسة ويذهبون للعمل، وفي مقدمتها ضعف او انعدام المورد المعيشي داخل الاسرة وعدم توفير فرص العمل المثمرة لرب الاسرة او اخوة الطفل البالغين، فلو وجد مصدر العيش ووجدت فرصة العمل المستمر لما اضطر الاطفال الى ان يمتهنوا اصعب المهن واكثرها عرضة للخطر، ولا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله

Provide a legislative framework to prevent child labor

Follow-up families and income level

Provide a legislative framework to prevent child labor

Follow-up families and income level

Provide a legislative framework to prevent child labor

Follow-up families and income level

Public outrage that produces policies to prevent it.

Frame security to the children using laws.

well, i think so government should stop child labor from the country by laws. Mostly children do work for supporting their families due to poverty. but what is poverty? Actually those parents who are uneducated they don't understand the important of education they always prefer on doing work. If parents will be educated , they will teach theirs kids.The government should ban on child labor.

one respected member said government should punish the parent who sent their children on work. If parents are also uneducated then how can they understand the importance of education. first we should change the thinking of uneducated parents .

With due respect Ms. Farkhanda Ijaz, I do respect your opinion, but in a country where education is not being regulated by the government. This is usually what happens where the parents who are uneducated and living below the poverty line, send their minor children out for work because they don't have choice. I also understand your point about government should punish the parents who sent their children to work, however; I don't fully agree with it. I believe that the government is the problem here. If the government provide support to the parents to send their children to school rather than to work, no parent will send their kids to work. There is no one who likes to live in a poverty. Firstly, there should be a free, mandatory education system at least until the 12th grade and government should support this system and provide resources like scholarship and grants for the students as well as for the family. After that, if the parents don't send their kids to school, then the government can punish the parents.

Thanks Dr. Azhar

Government should ensure free education at the preliminary level so that equal opportunities can be given to all.

· To give them opportunities to develop in all spheres of life

· It is also required to promote child welfare,through positive actions.

· For child walfare,wholesome food,education ,clean and encourageous environment with enogh care are also necessary

· Government formed various policies for development of education .

· Mid day Meal programme is one of the steps for this target.

· Free education ,books etc are also available in addition to scholarship

· Vaccination,medical check up in schools ,co-curricular activities for their walfare are under implentation.

· In field of justice,children below fourteen years of age are treated as minors and are not generally given corporeal punishment but sent to child care homes where they are taught various skills of handicrafts etc. So that they can earn and rehabiliate in society after sentence period

· All these steps for child labour eradication and promotion of child welfare are implemented through various policies and acts at central and state levels apart from various programmes of NGOS.

· We should not allow child labors.

Make use of your power as a consumer. Make sure the products you buy doesn't employ any child labour. You can find this simply by being aware of latest news and doing some research. Report companies that uses children in their supply chain. Corporates are scared about bad publicity and negative consumer feedbacks. Patronize and support only the products produced by ethical business and fair trade practices. Brand image of an organization is as important as the quality of their product.

Sign petitions for local and global child labour issues through which you can raise your voice and inturn influence policies.

Get involved in media by writing column’s in local newspapers and in social networking sites about anti-child labour activism. You can even integrate your thoughts in stories, poems, drama’s or art works which are easily reachable.

Spread the information. If a child is being employed in horrendous condition please dial 1098.

Talk about it. Speak out against child labor, raise awareness on this issue. It is not necessary you have to address masses on one go. Start with your parents; extended family; neighbours; shop keepers / business units in vicinity.

Ltes work together to realize their dream

Child labour is socio- economic problem, if Government provide livelihood facilities to the poor people and organise awareness programmes to motivate the people, then there will be chances to overcome this problem.

Most of the decision takers do not try to understand the roots and causes behind any problem; they just want to cover the problems for a short period in the name of solving it.

We should discuss the actual reasons for conversion of child to labour and will try to solve the reasons, if we actually want to solve the problem.

Thanks.

First solution is population control. It will take care of the resource management of any nation including the manpower in a refined way.

Second is social awareness. People should be strongly discouraged to employ minors and children.

Third and last is production of ample employment opportunities for people. If people have work and money, there would not be the need to send their children to work and give rise to child labor. Government needs to take strong actions in this regard.

I agree with Dr Hussain.

Thanks for your good question.

I think this links have good answers for your question:

https://humaneeducation.org/blog/2017/10-tips-for-helping-end-child-labor/

http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Young-Hans/2017-12-04/Ways-to-prevent-child-labour-in-India/343050.