Lack of salary is compensated by commitment by the employers for better jobs in the future. In this study the majority of child domestics fell in the age group of 11 to 13 years, though there were other children as young as five to seven years employed as household workers. The majority of child domestics, irrespective of their gender, were unable to read and write. This means that they had never been to school, nor had been taught at home. Also the majority of family members of the girl child domestics were unable to read or write, whether they were the parents or the siblings.
Violence ranges from verbal abuse to physical abuse and torture.
The most common types of violence include calling names, shouting, complaining and finding faults, the use of insulting and filthy language, obscene words, beating, slapping, whipping, and being burnt with hot spoons or rods. Fueling child labour is poverty and deprivation. Over 38 percent of the child population are not in primary schools. The female illiteracy rate is 74 percent. The 1997 Human Development Report stated that 537 out of every 1,000 Bangladeshi children die before reaching one year of age.