Wednesday 16 May 2012

Problems of Girl Child Domestic Servants



Child domestic servants is known as an problem in Pakistan, but no one can feel the pain and torture from which a child domestic servants passes through. Few months ago, a young girl servant burnt to death by owner's young son because she refused to begin sexual relation with the boy and his friends. This news hurts me the more when I hear this and it’s really leads me to think about that are we the Muslims? Who taught to treat with servants with good behavior and like for them those things as we like for our own self.
In big cities, there is most common trend of child domestic servant. Where children work for long hours and they also not have education and free time, often they suffers from verbal and physical abuse and these girls are also helpless to sexual misuse. These are some problems which these girl domestic servants have from their owners but there are a number of examples in our history where young girl servants have been victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse and face carelessness of society.

Mostly these domestic servants’ girls are under the age of 18 years and facing many sorts of blames from their owners. They do many big home tasks from their small hands and the blame of theft is the most common blame that all these poor servants time to time received, from their owners. At any time, the family lost or misplaced anything they blame them and due to this theft blame, female child domestic servants often experienced physical violence, like slapping or punching, or threat of police. Most of the time these domestic servants not pay their dues at the time they need this and there may be sometimes blame on the character of these poor girls that they are characterless. No one thinks that they also have self respect. These domestic servants may suffer from serious health disorders but they work hard all the daylong in there bad health condition but no one care for their medical treatment. I only discussed the some of the most common problems which these domestic servants’ faces but there are a number of problems and various forms of violence and mistreatment are still unknown. 

In big cities, there should establish a helpline, specifically for female child domestic workers, to help them in troubled situation. There is a great need to start evening school and health programmes, especially for female child domestic workers. Media can help to spread awareness through electronic and print media about the problems of female child domestic workers among peoples. However, the Pakistani media have been again and again reporting on the abuse and violence that child girl domestic servant often suffers at the hands of their owners. Let’s see when the people have positive behavior toward these poor.

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