Assessing The Relationship Between Poverty And Child Labor In Uselu Community, A Case Study Of Egor Local Government Area, Edo State

ABSTRACT This study was carried out in Uselu community to access the relationship between poverty and child labor. Family is the principal institution for the socialization of children, in this study, it was observed the following factors were the prevailing determinant of child labor; poverty, illiteracy, culture, broken marriages, large family size, and corruptions. The study also explains the various forms of child labor that is perpetrated in the environment and its related consequences such as the child being susceptible to all forms of sickness, accidents and all forms of hardship. There…