Citation

Sekar HR, Khurana M. Soc. Change 2004; 34(1): 57-65.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Council for Social Development, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/004908570403400106

PMID

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Abstract

Child labourers are denied their rights to education, an adequate standard of living, and opportunities for developing their personality, talents, and mental and physical abilities. They are deprived of leisure and play, of survival and development, and do not have protection from abuse and neglect. Children are future assets of any society, and their arrested growth affects the country as a whole, in the long run. Societies with large number of working children will be producing more and more illiterate citizens, who are devoid of the skills needed for development.

Language: en