Exploring the Experiences of Child Domestic Labor: A Qualitative Study

Abstract

The current study was conducted to know the experiences of the children domestically working. The aim of the study was to explore the experiences of the children who are working as domestic laborer. For this purpose, the phenomenological approach was used. It was based on in depth interviews which was semi structured with open ended questions. Children were taken with the age range of the 12-18 years. The duration of working was more than 5 years. At the completion of gathering the data from participant’s data analysis by using “NVivo 11 pro” was done with labeling, generating themes and categorization of the themes.
The main categories were emerged into the central experiences of the child domestic labor biological factors, psychological issues, financial issues, social factors. Overall study results indicate that children who are domestically working are facing several challenges which is threatening to their physical health conditions, risks on mental health, rising financial issues and rejecting them socially by discrimination & unjust. The concluding points is that these children as if working in threatening situation is harmful for their physical health, worsening psychological conditions and damaging their social lives, keeping them unskilled in the long run.