Psychology Problems Advice Info

Child labour in terms of begging is used as a profession by insecure group of people that forces children to beg. A child can earn maximum money by begging. They show burns on their faces and hands so they can earn more. As they grow older their earnings decrease, which gets most of them involve in robbery and prostitution. Child begging is the exploitation of children for money making reasons. Most of the people view it as way of relief for their hunger and unsatisfied needs. Earlier people believed that beggars were be physically disabled people who could not find work so they have to beg for their survival. However it has been noticed that nowadays that majority of them are physically normal children but due to their un-hygienic condition they may prone to get health problems. If we want to discourage child begging we need to see its impact on the child’s physical, educational, emotional health and psychological development.

Begging neglects all children’s basic rights of physical and educational needs. Physical needs include insufficient food resources, housing and hygiene. Educational needs include getting in a school at proper age. However to fulfill their basic needs that is food and to relieve their hunger and to get the physical strength children need money and they beg to earn money. We can say that poor families forcing their children to adopt the role of primary income earner but by doing this they are ignoring their childhood basic life needs such as schooling.

Child’s begging results in child’s emotional insecurity and fear of being threatened or hurt by older or stronger street peers. Begging puts children under pleasure and they loose confidence in their own ability to deal with any difficult situation. During this period the life of child beggars, is like a honeymoon period which is characterized by freedom and excitement, becoming a part of experimentation. Begging is exploitation besides the work they are doing. They are also abused physically, mentally and sexually by the people around them.

Begging impairs a child’s psychological development who develop anti social behavior including living with a complexity or fear. A child beggar gets separated from his family, has low self esteem, and is likely to hold self negative behavior. It seems parents of child beggars are less sensitive to their children’s basic needs. Poor families cannot provide their children with a sense of belonging, which is necessary to promote children’s interest. If a child is moved away from his parents than his psychological development gets impaired and there is a chance that the child will develop some kind of mental disorder in his adulthood, which may result in having  antisocial behaviors in him and he may involved in substance abuse and harm their health. In fact people believe that begging is socially shameful work. Beggars need to kill their egos completely before starting to beg. Once they overcome this psychological barrier then nothing stop them from begging. They work very cleverly and they get used to it. Thus we can say that child begging results in failure to provide psychological care to him or her involves children in domestic violence and allows the child to participate in drugs and alcohol abuse. Eradication of beggars specially the children beggars is very necessary, giving them money is not only the solution to help them overcome their problem because it may only increase the chances of child begging on a regular basis and does not solve the root cause. In order to save children from child labour and to help them avoid this insecure profession, we need to create and build an environment which is safe and supportive for them. It requires preventive measures, providing of adequate services like food, shelter and training to support those who beg as a profession. First we need to build this insight amongst ourselves that we will treat who are beggars with kindness and respect them and if we want to help them we could offer them food instead of giving them money.

We as a part of this nation need to ensure that beggars are able to live successfully with better lifestyle and also they permanently get rid of begging.Beacuse as we already aware that child beggars are already at risk as they have short term and long term impact on their lives. Each one of us from this society has a responsibility to ensure that these vulnerable children are protected. If we are able to do so we should give them one to one support, provide positive alternate activities or work for earning. All community people and stake holders should jointly resist any form of child begging using their best resources. Being community health care workers we should organize awareness programs for the community people especially sensitizing the parents regarding children rights and growth of development. We also need to work with the NGO’s with the consensus of community leaders. to identify their basic needs and its alternative solutions which can help them in growing children’s quality life, specially the child beggars need to provide education, professional training, food and accommodation so that they become useful citizens of our country.