Pakistan can inspect a brick kiln, but a child domestic worker can remain invisible inside a private home.
The problem becomes more disturbing when parents or guardians receive months of wages in advance. If the child wants to leave early, who repays money the family has already spent?
That financial pressure can reduce a child’s freedom to walk away.
Media reports in Pakistan repeatedly show young maids reaching hospitals only after severe abuse has already occurred. The quieter cases rarely enter police files or labour statistics.
My article follows the money behind child domestic work and asks a harder question: who actually controls the child’s labour when someone else has already taken her wages?
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