Abstract

Background: Child labour is a problem all over the world. Strongly affecting children involved. It humpers their chances of studying, compromises health and thence future opportunities, this means society will be deeply harmed. However not all work performed by children is categorized as child labour, oftentimes children or adolescents participate in work that does not affect their health and personal development or interfere with their schooling, this is regarded as positive since it contributes to children’s development and welfare of their families Results: The age of child, gender, presence of parents, the number of siblings a child has, place of birth of the child, employment status of the parent of guardian of the child, whether the child is schooling to date or not and if a child has ever gone to school were significant contributing factors to children’s involvement in child labour while cultural aspects of the respondents like perceived importance of education to a child, accessibility of education, education affordability and cultural norms on gender roles and socio economic factors like, the sector were children work , average monthly income earned by the child, place of residence after work, number of working hours, and consequences associated with child labour were significantly contributing to child labour . Conclusions: There is need to have access to data related to child labour, this can be generated through research studies like this one. Enforcement of legislations against child labour, Compulsory and universal education for all children would effective in eliminating child labour. Although there is free access to universal primary and secondary education, there is need to introduce a credit system for parents or guardians in which the child’s family can access scholastic materials and it can pay back later to make education more affordable and accessibility to schools can be achieved through increasing in the number of rural government owned primary and secondary schools, a substantial increase in the availability of public education in rural areas at the pre-primary, primary and secondary levels will diminish the pressure and existing congestion in schools in the urban centers where poor families migrate in search of both jobs and educational opportunities for their children.

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