Question

are we exploiting our children ( minimum of 400word)

Answer 1

Children are considered to be exploited whenever a profit is made from their vulnerability and lack of power, whenever children are abused to somebody else's benefit and whenever they start working despite being too young or for long hours.

MEAN :- Child exploitation is the act of using a minor child for profit, labor, sexual gratification, or some other personal or financial advantage

child exploitation happen :- risk of abuse and exploitation for a variety of reasons; these may include separation from their families, lack of access to education, and the need to take on adult responsibilities such as caring for siblings. children work, the kinds of work they do, and their working conditions.

Child trafficking is a form of child abuse. It is the exploitation of children for economic or sexual purposes, and includes the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring, or receipt of a child for exploitation. Children may be sold, illegally adopted, forced into early marriage, recruited into the armed forces, pushed into prostitution, or trafficked to work in mines, factories, or homes.

Child work vs. Child exploitation

In its fight against child exploitation, Terre des Hommes makes a distinction between child work and child labour, and gives top priority to eradicating the latter. Child work refers to the participation of children in an economic activity which is not detrimental to their health and mental and physical development.

Child domestic work

Thousands of child domestic workers are hidden within households, working hard and long hours (often over 16 hours a day), for little or no pay, living in abusive situations, without regular contact with their family. They no longer attend school, missing the opportunity to improve their future prospects through education.

Child labour and exploitation are the result of many factors, including poverty, social norms condoning them, lack of decent work opportunities for adults and adolescents, migration and emergencies. These factors are not only the cause but also a consequence of social inequities reinforced by discrimination.

Children belong in schools not workplaces. Child labour deprives children of their right to go to school and reinforces intergenerational cycles of poverty. Child labour acts as a major barrier to education, affecting both attendance and performance in school.

The continuing persistence of child labour and exploitation poses a threat to national economies and has severe negative short and long-term consequences for children such as denial of education and undermining physical and mental health

Child labour and other forms of exploitation are preventable through integrated approaches that strengthen child protection systems as well as simultaneously addressing poverty and inequity, improve access to and quality of education and mobilize public support for respecting children’s rights.

'Child maltreatment', often referred to as child abuse and neglect, includes all types of physical and emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect and exploitation which lead to significant or potential harm to the health, development or dignity of the child.

Five subtypes can be distinguished under child maltreatment – physical abuse; sexual abuse; negligence and inadequate treatment; emotional abuse; and exploitation.

Such child exploitation behaviors are detrimental to the development of physical or mental health, employment, confidence or social-emotional growth of the child.