Keeping an Eye Out:Child Advocacy

Keeping an Eye Out: Child Advocacy Name: Course: Institution: Instructor: Date: Keeping an Eye Out: Child Advocacy As an educational professional, the child advocacy issue for an education professional is ‘child labor’. Child labor is one of the issues affecting many children across the board. This issue affects children educational aspirations, and instead it has negatively affected their life. This is because; many children are denied educational opportunities, as they dedicate their time and effort to working. In most contexts, child labor affects the educational aspirations of the children, as labor substitutes take a substantial fraction of time, which would have been spent on education. Importance of the issue of Child Abuse The issue of child abuse, especially child labor, is a crucial issue, because it affects the quality of life of the children. In this case, children are subjected to working in places with, poor working, conditions. A number of children are subjected to working on sweatshops and in environments, which risks their health and well-being. In this case, this is a serious issue to address, because it does not only affect the quality of life of the children, but bars the children from undertaking principal areas of development in life. For instance, most of the children subjected to child labor, often end up dropping out of school. In addition, these children also face various kinds of abuses as they work. This happens because they are a vulnerable group for abuse, for they cannot effectively defend their rights. The risk factors for children and families, whose children have been subjected to child labor is diverse. The first one is that these children are denied the opportunity for schooling and education. This bars them from growing up well into useful beings in the society. In addition, families, whose children are subjected to child labor increase the likelihood of the poverty viscous, cycle (Murphy & Bailey, 2011). The ...