“Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.”
- Dr. Hiam Ginnot
The term child is used in the limited sense to indicate an individual below the age of majority. The more precise word for such an individual is minor, juvenile or infant. The age of majority which transforms a child legally into an adult, has traditionally been the age of 21 years. Many states, however, have reduced the age of majority to 18 years.
Every child deserves a childhood full of happiness & care. Like the blossom of a flower they are tender, beautiful & pure. They learn from their surroundings with the help of their eyes & ears. They do what they are taught, they speak what they hear. As a minor they …show more content…
Where he can grow with the nature & have the tools to let him do whatever he wants to do. And where he has perfect parents who teach him the differences of rights and wrongs in a playful manner, where he feels no duty but still the sense of duty to his people and country grows with him as he gets older. This ‘happy childhood’ is the proper childhood every person has dreamt of. But unfortunately very few children of our country get this kind of environment due to some unplanned activities of our society. For this reason, the cruelty is being felt as well as the lack of happiness and full of tensions are spreading all over the …show more content…
Starting from the Convention on the Rights of The Child 1990 to the National Child Policy 2011 all emphasise the need to abolish child labour. The Child Labour unit, set up in 2009, adopted a National Child Labour Elimination Policy 2010 at the Ministry of Labour & Employment and work towards elimination of child labour. But this unit needs to be strengthened with financial and human resources and be more pro-active. According to the International Labour Organisation, child labour is harmful to the physical and mental development of children as it deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their