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Economic Factors
Family Factors
Personal Factors
3. ECONOMIC FACTORS
Economic need is often cited as being the cause for
children to live and work on the streets as parents
cannot afford the costs of education and are forced
to send their children to the streets ( Densely &
Joss
2000).
Poverty
Unemployment
2. FAMILY FACTORS
Large international studies have found that
the
majority of street children left home in order
to
escape dysfunctional families and lack of
parent care in the form of neglect and physical
and sexual violence (Price 1989).
Parental Arguments
Independence
Lack of Education
Health Conditions
Abuses
Crimes
Drugs
Murders
A 16 YEAR OLD CHILD IS ARRESTED
FOR AN UNKNOWN CRIME
EDUCATIONAL STATUS SHOWED A PATTERN OF
GENERALIZED ILLITERACY ALL OVER THE
COUNTRY
The
number of children
living
independently in
the streets totals
between 100
million and 150
million worldwide,
and it is forecasted
that by 2020 the
number will
increase to 800
million.
OTHER DRUGS INCLUDING HASHISH,
OPIUM AND HEROIN
MASLOWS HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
Neglected by their society and deprived of family
stability; they are often stigmatized reducing their self-
esteem and potential for personal growth.
ATTENTION
Street Children are not USELESS