Street Children: a Journey Into Paradise
Street Children: A Journey into Paradise
OUTLINE
TOPIC: Street Children
TITLE Street Children: A Journey into Paradise
I. The Course of Lost Childhood A. Factors of Street Children Existence B. Life of Street Children C. Street Children Phenomenon
II. Dealing with Street Children A. The Lost Childhood B. Health Conditions C. Coping Strategies D. Probable Solutions
III. Outcome of the Study A. Adoption in the Philippines B. ?
IV.
Chapter I
The Course of Lost Childhood
A street child is a young person, under the age of 15, who lives and sleeps in the streets, whose family ties are broken and can’t or won’t return home. They experience family problems, hunger, neglect and domestic violence so they escape from their homes and live part–time on the streets without their families. Each has to learn how to survive alone. Since no adult takes responsibility for them in the street. They live or rather struggle to survive. These children are usually found in the downtown areas, near stations and shopping malls or in garbage dumps for these places provide them food or something to live and survive. Street children are child workers. They face many hardships while living on the streets which are away from support systems and family. Most of these children are illiterate. They don’t have incentive, money or support and encouragement to study because most of them have dropped out of elementary school. They join street gangs for their own protection and they usually engaged themselves in scavenging, child labor, begging, peddling drugs and petty theft. They work, beg and steal to survive. Many end up in jail, but often times their rights are frequently abused by the police while on the streets.
Because of the intense poverty experienced by most of the families in or country today, many children are abandoned and are highly vulnerable to street life. Some are sent by their families into the
OUTLINE
TOPIC: Street Children
TITLE Street Children: A Journey into Paradise
I. The Course of Lost Childhood A. Factors of Street Children Existence B. Life of Street Children C. Street Children Phenomenon
II. Dealing with Street Children A. The Lost Childhood B. Health Conditions C. Coping Strategies D. Probable Solutions
III. Outcome of the Study A. Adoption in the Philippines B. ?
IV.
Chapter I
The Course of Lost Childhood
A street child is a young person, under the age of 15, who lives and sleeps in the streets, whose family ties are broken and can’t or won’t return home. They experience family problems, hunger, neglect and domestic violence so they escape from their homes and live part–time on the streets without their families. Each has to learn how to survive alone. Since no adult takes responsibility for them in the street. They live or rather struggle to survive. These children are usually found in the downtown areas, near stations and shopping malls or in garbage dumps for these places provide them food or something to live and survive. Street children are child workers. They face many hardships while living on the streets which are away from support systems and family. Most of these children are illiterate. They don’t have incentive, money or support and encouragement to study because most of them have dropped out of elementary school. They join street gangs for their own protection and they usually engaged themselves in scavenging, child labor, begging, peddling drugs and petty theft. They work, beg and steal to survive. Many end up in jail, but often times their rights are frequently abused by the police while on the streets.
Because of the intense poverty experienced by most of the families in or country today, many children are abandoned and are highly vulnerable to street life. Some are sent by their families into the
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