Educated Parents’ Practice of Child Labour in Ekiti State, Nigeria

Child labour has been observed to be a common practice among illiterates due poor socio-economic background. Some parents and guardians keep their children in child order supplement family income. Educated who should know the risks involved enlighten illiterate seem engage hazardous work that directly endangers health moral development. This paper examined educated parents’ of Ekiti state. Descriptive survey research design was adopted with sample 600 selected civil servants working Local Government Secretariats through multi stage sampling procedure. One question three hypotheses were generated for study. A questionnaire tagged “Educated Parents’ Practice Labour Questionnaire (EPPCLQ)” used collect data. The instrument subjected screening by experts ensure validity reliability determined test re-test method yielded 0.85 coefficients. study revealed level moderate, differed based on gender location while found no significant difference Based this, it recommended others desist from engaging which injurious detrimental development families need look other means sourcing income fight poverty discourage practice.