Chapter 1 Problem and its background Introduction An Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a Philippine citizen who is employed in work outside the country. Because they value their families, they choose to leave the country to find work that exceeds the salaries of some jobs that are available in the Philippines. Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) contribute a lot to the betterment of the Philippine economy; oftentimes the families whom they have left behind in the country are adversely affected. A father, a mother, and their children constitute a family. They harmoniously live together under one roof with the parents providing all the love, attention and the assurance of a better future for their children. This, however, may not be true for all One or both of the parents have chosen to work overseas. OFW’s work abroad but their families leave in the country and they can experience different things or can be a problem because of their leaving. According to Gemma Iso (2017), they want to have both of their parents are present at special events or occasions in their lives. It can be a birthday, graduation and many more. If their father left them, they can’t tell their issues in school like an intimidating classmate and bully and when their mother left, no one can they can lead on when they are down and someone to help in choosing a dress or attire to wear during promenade, parties and someone to ask tips from several of things. OFW children are prone to emotional, psychological, and behavioral problems. It is also being observed that many OFW children are becoming self-doubting and they become money-oriented and spend their parent’s money in internet gaming from the lack of guidance (Iso, 2017). They demand for more parental involvement and that’s the parent needs to overcome and fulfill. Being a parent is a lifetime responsibility because it is the time that they offer themselves to their children and there are Labor Migration started during 1974, and has not stopped (Ortigas, 2008). Using the definition of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), “a child means every human being below the age of eighteen” who are likewise needing protection against all forms of discrimination. Under the Convention, the parents have the moral obligation and responsibilities for the upbringing and development of the children but if they are working abroad they can’t give it to their children. Most of them have not really gotten to know their parents well because they have not lived with them for years. Children can only associate their parents with the money, gifts and phone calls (Atikha and Balikbayani: 2002). The problem presented in the study is that the teenagers are experiencing many problems and struggles independently and from that they can build their perceptions based on their experience if it is good or bad because of their parents are working abroad. This problem can be solved by continuously guiding them especially the teenagers and don’t leaved them for the sake of plenty of money and different things because the most important is the emotions and feelings that teenagers are experiencing when their parents are not there to comfort and guide them and money can’t buy it. It is very important to be solved because no one will experience the
For immigrants, reuniting with parents who left them is a huge problem in the U.S. Children who reunite with their parents after many years have a lot of problems with the parents. The parents and children tend to argue, the children have buried anger, and both have an idealized concept of each other. According to Los Angeles’s Newcomer School, a school for newly arrived immigrants which is referenced in Enrique’s Journey, a bit more than half of want to talk to the counselor about their problems. The main problem Murillo, the school’s counselor, says is mostly family problems. Murillo says that many parent-child meetings are all very similar and identical to each other. Some of the similarities are that idealized notions of each other disappear, children felt bitter before going to the U.S., and that many children have buried rage. Mothers say that the separations between them and child was worth it because of the money earned and the advantages in America. However, many children said that they would rather have less money and food if it meant their mothers would stay with them.
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What is a family without a parent? A good parent has the image of a provider. Parent is the one that meets all the material needs of the household. The one who worries that nothing lacks to his/her children. Works double shifts and weekends. A good parent has not yet met the present needs, when others have been created; he/she wears out feverishly. But yet he/ she still have time to have the unique experience of seeing the children grow. Having children is a major life-course event no matter what country people live. Children alter how men and women live and how they can allocate their time. Money is required to support children, and there is also more to do in the households with children. Historically, women have done the extra work chil-dren create. Who engenders ch...
A parent’s parenting styles are as diverse as the world we live in today. Nowadays, parents only want what is best for their children and their parenting styles plays a crucial role in the development of children which will in the long run, not only effect the child’s childhood years, but later prolong into their adult life as well.
By the end one should be able to understand why child labor is in violation of human rights and should not be accepted and what is currently being done to put an end to it. Many people want to put an end to this plight, but they feel overwhelmed by the complications and the enormity of it that it becomes difficult to find a the right way to tackle it. There have been many implications that have succeeded in aiding this predicament and enabled progress to be ma...
Because of the more crucial importance of children’s labour to many household economies, children are involved in forms of labour just like their parents. Females play a central role in domestic labour and care for their siblings like they are the mother of the family. Children take on considerable responsibilities, and see this as part of their obligations to their families. Hence, in some countries, child labour is prevalent and, for many children, education has to fit around work commitments. This contrasts with the developed West, where children’s work has to fit around their education commitments. The priorities for children are different, and their childhoods are very much so a different
Child Labor is one of the reasons why children stop schooling or do not study at all. But first, what is child labor? Not all child work is considered child labor. According to Aldaba, Lanzona and Tamangan (2004), one must incorporate both national and international definition regarding child labor considering 3 factors which include the type of activity the child is engaged to, their age and parental supervision. Basically, children who are engaged to any work which is considered as the “worst form” are called child labourers. This “worst forms” of work are occupations that endanger the general welfare and long-term development of a child. Age is also a factor regarding child labor. If a child under the age of 15 years old works without any supervision of parents, they are considered as child labourers since they are not guided by their parents and the work done by the child, even if it is not the “worst form” is also considered as child labor. Other definitions of child labor include that of Edmonds and Pavcnik (2005), wherein child labor is defined as “economic activities deleterious to the well-being of children” which also means that these are work dangerous to the health and welfare of a child. The United Nations define such activity as “any work that children should not be doing because they are too young to work or – if they are old enough to work – because it is dangerous or otherwise unsuitable for them”. This only means that whether a child is a minor or at a legal age, if the work done by these children is unsuitable for their age, it is still considered as child labor. Child labor is also defined as a work that has too much responsibility for a child and is not appropriate for their age. Furthermo...
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...hange the outlook of these parents towards child labor. They should be made to realize that it is in the best interest of their child not to work as working may endanger the health and development of their child. In general, all the efforts must be directed towards the elimination of poverty. Thus, the world would be a better place for all children when they are brought up in a loving and caring environment and do not have to work and toil right from the early stages of their lives.
The term ‘child labor’ is used to define any work that is mentally, physically and morally harmful to children, and interferes with their education (ILO). Children have been used as a labor force throughout most of our history. After decades of struggle aimed to combat the massive employment of child labor, the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989 ratified that children have the right to develop harmoniously their personality in a loving family environment. Moreover, it recognized the right of the children to be protected from exploitation, and any form of labor that jeopardizes their physical, mental and moral well-being. However, child labor is still eagerly diffuse in developing countries,
Presently, about 11 crores children of age group 9 to 14 , are working as child labours. This makes 10% of our total population. All these children have missed out pleasant moments of their childhood and ultimately they will remain away from the mainstream of social development. If we as a society ignore these facts and neglect this situation, it may prove to be harmful to all of us.
The dilemma started in late 1700's and mid-1800's as the factory possessors utilized children to work on their machines since there are no laws to restrict the child labor or the proper age to work. As a result, this crisis still affects the world. Moreover, the present reasons for child labor are the same as those of the past including a restricted capacity of training, the lake of decisive laws that ban children labor and disappearance of working credit hours. Child labor influences their future because it hurts them in many forms of intellectual and physical ways including autism, paranoia, physical disabilities, burns and sexual harassment. This dilemma put the 3 kids of the Cebu construction site in Philippine under harsh conditions. However, the shocking fact that these children who were victims of this accident are now hired not as workers in mines and construction sites but as thugs and criminals was ignored by the society and the government. Therefore Child labor is a dilemma that has a lot of reasons and consequences on children future.(Hobbs, Mackehnie, & Lavalette,
In conclusion, I believe that child labour should be considered a violation of basic human rights. This essay demonstrates that not only does child labour take away fundamental human right however it also interferes with the education of the child and reinforces the cycle of poverty. It also proves child labour violates basic working rights found in the UDHR under article 23 and 24. Child labour is an outright violation
The Philippines has long been a country with a struggling economy. Ever since World War II, they have struggled to have a steady government and labor system. Independence did not bring any social changes to the country. The hacienda system still persists in the country, where large estates are farmed by sharecroppers. More the half the population are peasants and 20 percent of the population owns 60 percent of the land. Although the sharecropper is supposed to receive half of the harvest, most of the peasant's actual income goes to paying off debts to the landowner. Poverty and conflict strained the industrial growth of the country with many Presidents trying to fix the problems, but failing to do so. Factors that have faced the country are there is almost 9 percent unemployment, and the country suffers from the consequences of a balance of trade deficit. With the resources that the Philippines have, they are capable of pulling themselves out of the economical hole they are in and being up to par with their successful neighboring countries.
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