also receive less or no education compared to their rich counterparts. They are made to do menial and low level jobs that hurt their self-esteem at a very young age. This may hamper their normal development.Child labor has certain positive aspects also. It is the only means for orphans to earn their living. These unfortunate children who loose their parents at an early age and have no relatives to support them have to depend on working at their small age. In the developing countries of Asia and Africa, there are fewer programs taking care of the problems of the orphans due to the lack of sources and vastness of the problem (Grootaert, 7). In many cases through the practice of child labor the children help and support their parents to settle their financial obligations and to earn money to support the family (2). People living below poverty line have no other option than to force their children into working in factories and other places for wages. Some parents force their children into the child labor market because they consider it as a part of socialization process that introduces a child to work activities and teaches survival skills (2). For households that have low income, any hindrance in the path of income creates complications in the survival of the family, as they do not have enough savings or credit facilities to support them in case of emergencies (4). This encourages the parents to send their children for work as it helps to face the risk of fall in income or loss of work by any member of the family.Many organizations and people around the world are engaged in activities to eradicate child labor from the face of the world. For this they favor policies which worsen the conditions of the victims of child labor instead of improving their living conditions (Henderson, 1). Such organizations favor the method of taxing heavily the goods that are produced by employers using child labor, to discourage them from employing...
