SEC S17W2: Protecting Children
Introduction |
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Children are an amazing gift, delicate and as such require ultimate care right from the early years. A solid background must be ensured for these creatures because that determines how bright the future will be.
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Unfortunately, the world is full of people who are filled with personal interests and show no concern about other humans' lives. Some of these categories exploit children and use them inappropriately. We will explore a few things about the topic raised about children in this contest.
Child Slavery |
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Child labour in its simple term refers to different exploitations of minors to participate in illegal activities beyond the age of a child, under forceful order that tends to attach severe consequences if children under the scheme disobey.
Child Labour Representation | Pexels
Child labour can come in different forms, for example:
- Children subjected to hard labour on the farm.
- Children forced to hawk during the general school days/hours.
- Sexually exploiting minors.
- Children used to beg for alms or participate in robbery.
- Forcefully taken into illegal avenger group or other illegal armed scheme.
- And so on.
Unfortunately, child labour is not peculiar to outsiders who pick children up either by kidnapping or recruiting willingly under different schemes. Parents and guardians are also found guilty of using their own for such evil works and it happens all across the world.
The Impact of Forced Labour on Children |
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The impact of forced labour is undoubtedly negative, it's a destiny killer and might leave an eternal dent in the children and generations that tend to sprout from them. Forced labour makes the victims less important than their mates because they have been involved in activities that hinder their development.
Most of the victims of forced labour tend to forcefully adapt over time, that toxicity can be seen in them and they use it to affect people around them. As such, children under forced labour are not the only victims here but also everyone around them, even outsiders.
Forced labour creates stone-hearted children that become so toxic to affect their community negatively and may be a national threat in the future. That being said, they may reproduce in this state, bring forth new creatures under this toxicity and as such pass on the bad omen to the new innocent souls.
Eradication of Child Labor |
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The root cause of child forced labour is not only limited to exploiters who find pleasure in using anyone to get their work done, parents are heavily involved in this as I said earlier in this context and several factors can be attached to such actions.
For example, some children are seen hawking around the town while their mates are learning under the roof of the school. Parents in some cases use poverty as an excuse and think one way they would be able to survive is via child labour since they can't afford school fees and other things.
I have a few ways which I think can a bit relieve child forced labour:
Poverty Alleviation: There should be schemes by the government or other non-profit organizations that cater to the basic needs of families that live in extreme poverty, it can be monthly stipends and basic provisions for the household.
Free Education and Other Supplies: Education should be free under a scheme to ensure all classes of humans have access to quality education. In addition, other supplies like school uniforms, feeding, stationeries and so on should be provided.
Frequent Orientation: There should be a place for frequent orientations about the impact of child forced labour on a community. Constantly reminding the populace about the consequences of such acts can help relieve the occurrence of forced labour in children.
Strict Sanctions: Strict sanctions should be attached to people or groups that get involved in such evil schemes. We have seen children hawkers who were followed home by philanthropists, reward the parents with advice to keep the children in schools, unfortunately, some parents are unrepentant and continue with forced labour. Having a strict sanction like serving a jail term for the perpetrators would go a long way.
How Important is a Child's Freedom? |
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Children's freedom is paramount to the innocent souls. The freedom to do what they love and develop on it is the pathway to a bright future for every child. If a child is not allowed to participate in activities that align with their passions may translate to building a beast that tends to go wayward later in the future.
The world has evolved and we are no longer in an era where parents dictate to their children what they want them to become. We are in an era where passion and interests are figured out at the early stage of life, guiding them to develop them while getting involved in other things we consider necessary, like education.
Happy Children | Pexels
It takes a happy child to be productive and positively contribute to the development of a nation, as such children should be given the freedom to develop their interests.
Conclusion |
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In conclusion, child labour is not limited to any region of the world, it's everywhere maybe with slight differences. It affects children's now and future, some of the ways to eradicate it have been discussed in this piece. This is an amazing contest and I hereby invite @kouba01, @inspiracion and @chilaw to participate in it.
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Hello friend, you mentioned very important factors to take into account, and one of them is that boys will not always be boys, they are the men of the future, and when they are in harsh environments, their hearts harden, creating men who in turn will give continuity to that toxic situation that affects their lives, also affecting everyone around them.
Children deserve the opportunity to develop in a healthy, kind and loving way.
I liked reading your post, thanks for sharing. Greetings and blessings.
So apt! To expect something good from them, parents and society must ensure they grow under favourable conditions for them to maximize their potential. Thanks for stopping by, dear friend @inspiracion.
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This is disturbing, outrageous, how parents can attack their own children, manipulate them, sell them in many cases, use them for their own purposes, what a horror.
The laws must be implemented and with the maximum penalty for these heartless....
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When children see the situation, their heart cries tears of blood and then they get very angry with such parents that when they have given birth to these children, why did they not take responsibility for their safety and their good education and training? If not taken into consideration, then such children become victims of feelings of inferiority and become helpless and helpless in the society, who have no support. Why don't you pay attention to the children? Why don't you take care of their health? Although the children are the joy of the house and they have a good future in the future. They give good education to them which is their basic right but parents don't think like that, they give birth to children and leave them careless.