Challenges Associated with Families

Apart from the complications of placing the child back in school, the family’ s unwillingness to cooperate is another major challenge for successful remediation. The significant differences between China and other countries in terms of families’ involvement indicate not only the different situations auditors and factories / brands deal with, but it can also shed light on the root causes of child labor in different countries. Most of the auditors from China that we talked to know that many of the children come from dysfunctional families. In such cases, children receive very little support from their parents, which makes communicating with the families much more difficult. As shown in Figure 17, while facilitating the communication with the child’ s family is the most significant challenge for securing remediation in China, the financial obstacles seems to be a more important issue in other countries, where poverty is more likely to be the root cause of child labor.

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Common challenges to securing family cooperation in child labor remediation

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17 Best Response: Auditors’ Insights on Child Labor in Asia