“The rising number of child labor in the Philippines is an indictment of the government’s failure to positively address the population problem”, according to Albay Representative, Edcel Lagman.
The child laborers were deprived of education, that is why, they don’t have enough knowledge and understanding of the realities of life especially when they had started a family of their own.
“The number of child workers in the Philippines has breached the 5 million mark comes in the heels of the aggravated maternal death rate of 162 deaths per 100,000 live births”, according to Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the International Labor Organization (ILO).
Lagman strongly believes that both maternal deaths and child labor will be reduced and prevented once the RH bill becomes a law. Also, according to him, “..the unremitting pregnancies of Filipino women in the marginalized sectors due to lack of information and access to reproductive health and family planning services and supplies largely contribute to the increase in child labor as numerous children are suffered to work in their tender years to augment family incomes”.
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Child Labor in the Philippines 