Comprehension Passage
Read the passage and answer the following questions.
Child labor is an important topic that is being debated as a serious social issue all around the world. Keeping the society aware of this issue will help to avoid such illegal and inhuman activity from destroying the lives of many children. Child labor is something that replaces the normal activities of a child, like education, playing, etc., with economic activities. These economic activities may be paid or unpaid work, which benefits the family of the child or the owner the child works for. The age limit is restricted to fourteen years or even seventeen years in case of dangerous works.
Children may be forced to do child labor because of poverty and financial problems in their family. Many owners accept child labors since they only need a less amount as salary or even some accept non-monetary jobs too. Children are often made to do such hard jobs by their irresponsible parents. They send their kids for domestic works for the money as well as for the food they get through these works. These demanding works often spoil the childhood and give a harder way of living to the kid.
Parents allow their children for such jobs because of lack of awareness too. When they are too poor to take admissions in schools and the lack of good schools in their locality may also lead to such activities. Not all forms of jobs done by children are considered as child labor, but there are some things to note while categorizing them. Whether the job is done mentally, morally, physically and socially, does it affects the child in a dangerous way? Does the job done affect their education and other childhood activities like playing? The job they do shouldn’t be both tiring and excessive that they are forced to avoid other activities they should be doing in their age. These are the characteristics of Child Labor.
In extreme ways, there are owners who treat children like slaves and separate them from their families to do such hard jobs. Whatever be the job done, child labor depends on the age of the kid involved, type of activity and hours of work they do per day. As a conclusion, children are meant to be enjoying their childhood and should be allowed to educate themselves at early ages. There are many schemes introduced by the government to reduce such child labors like providing free education and taking severe actions against those who promote child labor.
Why do owners prefer child labors?
Because -
1. They are cute
2. They need less salary or wages
3. They do not throw tantrums
1
only 1
2
only 2
3
only 3
4
all of the above
5
none of the above.