Child Labor
child-labor
In my place it is a common scenario that to see school aged children selling sampaguita flowers at the churchyard, selling vegetable or plastic bags in the market place. This is true in the urban areas that the standard of living is so high. And I really pity those children doing such things. In rural areas the scene is different but the definition is the same child labor.
sampaguita-flower
I can’t imagine seeing my kids doing such things instead of they are enjoying their lives as a children. Because being children will not be a child forever, that’s why when my kids want to play with their playmates, I told them ok as long as they are only inside the subdivision premises. They need also to enjoy their lives; we need to understand also our kids because we are also kids before.
Some children cannot afford to finish elementary school because they are needed at home to take care of their young brothers and sisters while the mother or the father is away making a living. Worse still is they cannot go to school because they take care of their younger siblings while the mother is playing bingo or mahjong at the neighborhood.
What we can do today is just pray and let the parents enlighten their minds not to let their kids having a child labor which is punishable by law. Rather educate them and that is the only way we can give them to raise a good future.
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