Perception and practice of child labour among parents of school-aged children in Ibadan, southwest Nigeria

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 304-308

  Omokhodion, F O ^a   Uchendu, O C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Child labour; Parents; Perception; Practice

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PARENTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77955239607     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: 13652214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2009.00988.x     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Abdelgalil S, Gurgel R G, Theobald S, Cuevas L E. Household and family characteristics of street children in Aracaju, Brazil. Archives of Disease Child 2004, 89:817-820.
2. Aderinto A. Social correlation and coping measures of street children: a comparative study of street children in southwest Nigeria. Child Abuse Neglect 2000, 24:1199-1213.
3. Aneci Rosa C S, Borba E S, Ebrahim G J. The street children of Recife: a study of their background. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1992, 38:34-40.
4. Ayaya S O, Esamai F O. Health problems of street children in Eldoret, Kenya. East African Medical Journal 2001, 78:624-629.
5. Banerjee S R. Agricultural child labour in West Bengal. Indian Pediatrics 1993, 30:1425-1429.
6. Fetuga M B, Njokanma O F, Olowu A O. Prevalence, types and demographic features of child labour among school children in Nigeria. BMC International Health Human Rights 2005, 5:2.
7. Hawamdeh H, Spencer N. The effects of work on the growth of Jordanian boys. Child: care health and development 2003, 29:167-172.
8. Martins S B, Ebrahim G J. Street children. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1993, 39:264-268.
9. 1974, Federal Ministry of Labour, Labour Decree 1974. Federal Government of Nigeria; Gazette No 28 Vol 61
10. Neufeld S, Wright S M, Grant J. Not raising a 'bubble kid'. Farm parents attitudes and practices regarding the employment training and supervision of their children. Journal of Rural Health 2002, 18:57-66.
11. Nuwayhid I A, Usta J, Makarem M, Khudr A, El Z. Health of Children working in small urban industrial shops. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2005, 62:86-94.
12. Oloko S B A. Children's street work in urban Nigeria as adaptation and maladaptation to changing socioeconomic circumstances. International Journal of Behavioural Development 1993, 16:464-482.
13. Omokhodion F O, Omokhodion S I. Socio-economic determinants of child labour and attitudes to child labour among school children in Ibadan. African Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences 2004, 33:305-309.
14. Omokhodion F O, Omokhodion S I, Odusote T O. Perceptions of child labour among working children in Ibadan, Nigeria. Child: care, health and development 2006, 32:281-286.
15. Saghayroun A A. Value and cost of children in rural Sudan. Sudan Journal on Population Studies 1983, 1:29-59.
16. Tabassum F, Baig L A. Child labour a reality: results from a study of a squatter settlement of Karachi. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association 2002, 52:507-510.
17. Child domestic work: hidden exploitation. The State of the World's Children 1997a, 30-33. UNICEF, ed., Carol Bellamy, UNICEF, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA
18. An agreement in Bangladesh. The State of the World's Children 1997b, 60. UNICEF, ed., Carol Bellamy, UNICEF, p., Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA