Volume : III, Issue : II, February - 2013

Child Labour and its Real Picture

P. Soundrarajan

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The Prevalence of child labour is not a recent phenomenon. In the ancient times children were put to arduous labour in houses and in the fields. Performances of tasks like tending of cattle, collection of grass and fuel etc. by children relieve the adult members of the family for more productive work. There was no social labour against children working along with their parents. It was this factor of child labour which strongly established family and kinship ties in occupations. In the urban areas, because of their poverty many parents cannot make any investment in their childrens development and are also reluctant to support them. They want their children to find work for themselves as early as possible. In developing countries, children have always been the responsibility of the primary institution of society, viz, family. The traditional care lavished on children, has suffered* erosion because of new constraints and consequently abuse and exploitation of child has become common place. The plight of the child has been further aggravated by the endemic and entrenched poverty. Inspite of the constitutional measures and number of welfare development schemes for them, a sizeable proportion of child population is still working as wage labourers/apprenu. paid/unpaid both in urban and rural areas in very deplorable and inhuman conditions.

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P. Soundrarajan Child Labour and its Real Picture Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.II February 2013

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