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When child labour gets to the extreme, some people refer to it as child abuse. There are several different types of child abuse, and some children experience more than one form. Two major types are discussed below.

·        Physical abuse

·        Emotional abuse

Physical abuse includes deliberate acts of violence that injure or even kill a child. Unexplained bruises, broken bones, or burn marks on a child may be signs of physical abuse.

 Emotional abuse, such abuse commonly includes repeated verbal abuse of a child in the form of shouting, threats, and degrading or humiliating criticism. Other types of emotional abuse are confinement, such as shutting a child in a dark closet, and social isolation, such as denying a child friend among others.

Another category of child labour, are those ones who lose their parent at their early age in life, most of this female orphan suffer various types of afflictions from their so called masters, who are most time relatives, who use them as slaves, unlike their male counterparts who might have given to hooliganism, vagabonds and all sorts. Due to lack of care and love, larger percentages of female orphans are used as house maid. These girls are being used to run all errands at homes, they are being made to hawk on the streets. The most pathetic form of this abuse is neglect. Physical neglect involves a caretaker’s failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical care to a child. It may also include inadequate supervision and a consistent failure to protect a child from hazards or danger. Emotional neglect occurs when the caretaker fails to meet a child’s basic needs for affection and comfort. Examples of emotional neglect include behaving in an unsympathetic, distant, and un-affectionate way toward a child, allowing a child to witness chronic or severe spousal abuse. Another form of neglect involves failing to meet a child’s basic education needs, either by failing to enroll a child in school or by permitting a child to skip school frequently, which would later make life difficult for them in the future. Some of their relatives will even rape them and go unpunished.