Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries of the world. Most people here live below poverty line. They cannot afford their basic necessities properly. Here the average family size is big & more then 5 to Up. As many families have low income or less earners than eating mouths, they engage their children in various earning activities to supplement the family income. Thus child labour is on the increase. In fact, child labour has become a serious social-economic problem of Bangladesh. It is a curse of our society, a satire to our development program's. There are certain causes of child labour. Poverty is the root cause. As poor people can hardly maintain their family and education their children, the education of the children is stopped at an early age and they are forced to do various manual labour to support their family. Low pay is another cause of child labour. Often employers offer low pay for certain jobs which the grown ups do not do. Such kinds of jobs are done by children. So poverty, exploitation, deprivation, family need, and lack of good monitoring of law are the causes of child labour. Children`s work should never be desired in a society. We must try to maintain that and ensure peaceful, carefree, and secured world for our children. Otherwise we will have to suffer in the long run caused from this social problem.
