Abstract
Child labor is a widespread phenomenon. It is globally known to be an aspect of child abuse. The present study discussed the impact of mass media to create awareness among poor parents against child labor. For this purpose, data were collected from parents of a child laborer, child laborer, and employers who recruited child labor from Cumilla districts. The findings revealed that male adolescents have been involved as child laborers compared to female adolescents. Downcast literacy rate observed of the parents of the child laborer. Sample characteristics indicated that child laborer belongs to a large family. Also, the study observed that the dropout rate is high for working children. Two of the greatest usual reasons for the kiddies to reasoning the jobs were poorness and careless outlook unto study as reported. The finding of that study will help our parents to be more conscious of their kids.
Highlights
Concerns over the adverse effect of child labor are gradually increasing from the commencement of the twentieth centenary
It is observed from Table 1 maximum of the child laborers are men
Male adolescents are mostly engaged in child labor than female adolescents
Summary
Concerns over the adverse effect of child labor are gradually increasing from the commencement of the twentieth centenary. The Media has been ever used as an efficient cause of overthrowing consciousness in the masses. The Media has the force to touch close to all. Many communal scientists confide that mass media replay is necessary if patent attention for children’s realism is to stay on the political procession, and if children safeguard worship are to keep responsible (Goddard & Saunders, 2001). According to the International Labor Office (ILO) children work the longer times and are the scalp paid of all laborers (Bequele and Boyden 1988). Bangladesh is an extremely replenished country in the world. It has [1, 44,498] square kilometers in total area and more than 140 million populations (Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, 2011)
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