Child exploitation

Child Exploitation

Child exploitation (/ʧaɪld ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃən/) refers to the use of children for someone else's advantage, gratification, or profit often resulting in unjust, cruel, and harmful treatment of the child. These activities are to the detriment of the child's physical or mental health, education, moral or social-emotional development.

Etymology

The term 'exploitation' is derived from the French 'exploitation', which means 'utilization'. The term 'child' comes from the Old English 'cild', which means 'fetus, infant, unborn or newly born person'.

Types of Child Exploitation

• Child Labor: This involves the employment of children in work that is harmful to their physical and mental development.
• Child Trafficking: This is a form of child exploitation where children are recruited, transported, transferred, harbored, or received for the purpose of exploitation.
• Child Sexual Exploitation: This involves using a child for sexual activities in exchange for something of value, or even due to the promise of such items.
• Child Soldiers: This refers to the recruitment and use of children in armed conflicts.

Related Terms

• Child Abuse: This is a broader term that includes all forms of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment or commercial or other exploitation, resulting in actual or potential harm to the child's health, survival, development or dignity in the context of a relationship of responsibility, trust or power.
• Child Neglect: This is a form of child abuse where the caregiver does not provide for the child's basic needs, which can be physical, emotional, or educational.
• Child Protection: This refers to the measures and structures to prevent and respond to abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence affecting children.

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