Child Labour
In Pakistan, more than half the population at the age of 18 years old children are involved in child labour. Nearly 600,000 children under the age of 5 years old died in Pakistan. It is affecting children health. Their lives are a burden on them because of working at a small age. Most children are far from schools and other happiness in life. Since they are working with their parents to fulfil their three-time meal. It can affect the children mentally and physically. They look weak, unhappy, they become old soon even though they get multiple diseases related to the mind like migraines, loss of memory etc.
Factors responsible for child labour, There are many different types of factors which can cause child labour.
Unemployment
According to the (UNDP) reported in1995 one-fifth of the world population goes to bed without eating. In Pakistan, most people have done their MA and graduation still no job to feed the family because of this they let their children work in order to get food to survive.
Lack of Education
Most children are not getting an education. In the case of South Asia universal primary education is not available. 30 per cent of children are not going to school. In Pakistan 25 million children are out of School. One-fifth of boys, half of the girls at the age of 5 or 9 not enrolled at all. Poor quality of education, lack of education and educational institutions in Pakistan have no basic facilities like shelter, drinking water, no bathroom, and no furniture. Teachers are mostly absent. Parents do not like to send them to school and children are complex to work with their parents.
Illiteracy and Poor Parenthood
In Pakistan large amounts of adults people are uneducated and they have poor ways to live life. 50 million adults are illiterate in Pakistan, and they do not let their children get an education, either they can not afford or have poor thought too. That’s why children lose their education and work out with their parents. In Pakistan 60 per cent children at the age of13 working with their parents in baking. There are conflicting reports about the exact population of children in Pakistan, official work population of children is about 3 million, and a report showed that the total population working children are in Pakistan is 18 million.
These are the most dangerous factors which are affecting today’s young people, especially to the children. so child labour is very dangerous for the future, one never gets a bright future since they lose their all qualities and health condition in child age so how they can be able to get a good life.