Characteristics of working children in the Philippines

• Main Author: Lim, Cristina Teresa N.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Child labor—Philippines; Children—Legal status, laws, etc.—Philippines; Children—Philippines—Social conditions; Poverty—Philippines; Civil Rights and Discrimination; Family, Life Course, and Society; Sociology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/5956
• Institution: De La Salle University

It is the right of every child to have a healthy environment, formal education and a loving family. However, poverty forces a child to work even in dangerous streets. In the Philippines, Republic Act no. 7610 otherwise known as Child Protection Law defined children as persons below eighteen (18) yea...