What are the causes of child labour?

      

What are the causes of child labour?

  

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Eric
1 Lack of money / poverty
2 Death of parents
3 Dropping out of school due to pregnancy, indiscipline, (truancy), poor academic
performance or lack of school fees.
4 Those who never went or taken to school
5 Lack of good role models e.g. coast province Mombasa, Malindi has several of the
financially stable people being school dropouts, engaged in drug trafficking, commercial
sex etc.
6 Influence of cultural values e.g. circumcision of boys in some communities is done later in
life and one is declared an adult e.g. the kikuyu circumcising at 13 years, or 12 years
7 Children being lured by employers
8 Greed for material benefits
9 Being homeless ending up as a street child
ericmunguti answered the question on September 28, 2018 at 11:45


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