How will poor families survive without the additional income of the children?
Many studies show that children’s wages contribute so meagrely to the family’s income that they are of little significance to the overall family income. And, a large number of child labourers come from households where the parents are unemployed or under-employed, while employers give preference to children as a cheap source of labour. Moreover, it is precisely the vast number of children in the workforce that bring down adult’s wages, their bargaining power is reduced and they suffer from wide-scale unemployment.
