<P> Child labor tends to reinforce intergenerational cycle of poverty because it interferes with their education and increases their vulnerability to exploitation . </P> <P> In a study done by Anna Leah Colina for Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER), </P> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> "The study, which involved 3,859 households, found that children from poor families "are being forced by necessity to augment the family's coffers by working". Leaving school and working is a decision forced upon children by the reality they face each day, the study added . It further revealed that 96 percent of the households surveyed are living below the poverty threshold of their regions . At least 78 percent of respondents said they do not own or have access to land . Instead, most rely on other means to earn a living such as working in mines and plantations . Colina said a lack of access to education is also a "one push factor" to child labor . She said 60 percent of child laborers did not reach the sixth grade, while 44 percent reached Grade 6 before they left school to work ." </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> "The study, which involved 3,859 households, found that children from poor families "are being forced by necessity to augment the family's coffers by working". Leaving school and working is a decision forced upon children by the reality they face each day, the study added . It further revealed that 96 percent of the households surveyed are living below the poverty threshold of their regions . At least 78 percent of respondents said they do not own or have access to land . Instead, most rely on other means to earn a living such as working in mines and plantations . Colina said a lack of access to education is also a "one push factor" to child labor . She said 60 percent of child laborers did not reach the sixth grade, while 44 percent reached Grade 6 before they left school to work ." </Dd> </Dl> </Dd>

Cause and effect of child labor in the philippines