I often wonder, how deeply do the people understand the problem of child labor? Whenever people talk of child labor they often talk about it in a detached and from an observer’s point of view. How many people actually put themselves or their children in the place and try to feel and realize the problems of this menace. As a matter of fact, we always tend to look at the problems of the downtrodden or less fortunate from the practical or objective angle because somewhere down there we always know that this is not going to happen with us and so, we don’t have to think about it with a personal tinge.
And that I think is one of the biggest reasons why all our efforts to eradicate or address such problems go down the drain. Well maybe not exactly ‘down the drain’, but yeah we are having very limited success in matters of awareness and accountability within the upper middle and middle class.
We know it is wrong, it is against the law, but now employing this one child at your work place or home won’t solve the problem. So, well why not employ the kid. Anyways we are doing a favor to the family of the kid by providing them an extra source of income.
We so easily manage to bluff the law; we know that one kid employed at our place won’t dismantle the whole law and order institution (because until and unless the law threatens to kill us, we do not bother to mind it).
We refuse and ignore child labor. We refuse that we are involved in the crime and we ignore all the crimes we do in context to child labor. We ignore them when they come selling magazines and flowers on the traffic lights, we ignore them when we see them in small restaurants and garages serving us and we ignore them when they are washing utensils and doing chores around our houses.
From what I have understood regarding the issue of child labor, the problem need to be solved on the psychological level rather than the practical because no matter how much you argue that these problems are more of a practical nature, they all melt down to our approach to these issues.
2 comments:
absolutely furkan.i saw this girl comment on facebook and she wrote"a few ppl might refuse to employ minors in their household but that won't solve d purpose at all coz dere r many othr sectors dat wud willingly employ dem as workers"
if i stretch this logic with issues like women n child trafficking, domestic violence and female foeticide then with the above logic i get a very empty feeling and ask myself this question"so what is the use of my education"
as more young people like you get sensitized to this issue i am sure more people with shun child labour.the act has to start at one's own doorstep.
very rightly said sir, we all have to realize and understand that being the change that we want to have in the world does really work and it contributes and conveys a lot to the masses. one man is a whole universe in itself, so education never goes waste even if one person learns or is affected by it.
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