Poor families look upon these children as a means of earning money. Employers too welcome child labour because even fully trained children receive half the salary that is paid to adults. Besides, children are docile and do not make too many demands, which suits the employers. In spite of a law that specifically bans child labour, the heinous activity continues to thrive all over the country. Employers, families, the government all have their own reasons for promoting it or turning a blind eye to the fact that it exists.
Poor families look upon a child as one more pair of hands to add to the family kitty.
Often parents take loans or advance payments from the contractors or employers themselves. Their inability to pay the loans results in the children being unable to leave their jobs. Eventually the child becomes a bonded labourer. Employers justify child labour by citing various reasons. Other reasons that are just as important, but not expressed as openly, are that children are paid less than adults for the same kind of work.