The phenomenon of child labor (Diyala Governorate as a model)

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the causes of child labor, and this study was applied to a sample of (30) employers in the industrial neighborhood of the car workshop and the vegetable market in the city of Baquba, and the scale (Kazem, 2011) that was prepared for this purpose was used, and by using statistical tools On this occasion, the study found the most important reasons that lead to child labor, and the most important of these reasons is (the wars that the country was exposed to), which came in the first place as it got the highestA weighted mean in the questionnaire as it reached (2.73) and a weight percentile of (91.11), then it came in second place (double oversight role of social control institutions) with a weighted mean of (2.7) and a weight percentile of ( 90), then in the third order it was (weak counseling and guidance) and it got a weighted mean of (2.66) and a weight percentile of (88.88), while in the fourth order it came (loss of one or both parents) with a weighted mean (2.63) and weight percentile (87.77) and ranked fifth (divorce between parents), with a weighted average of (2.6) and weight percentile (86.66). At the end of the research, a number of recommendations were made and proposals to the competent authorities.