Street Children in the Developing World: A Review of Their Condition

Aptekar, Lewis

doi:10.1177/106939719402800301

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“…In addition, in displacement camps, cultural practices of wife inheritance after paternal death left many children vulnerable to leaving home for the streets (Veale, 1996). Civil unrest dated from the Mau Mau struggle has also been connected with the rise of street children in Kenya (Nowrojee, 1990;in Aptekar, 1994). War and political violence was also linked to the presence of children on the streets in urban areas in Northern Ethiopia (Veale et al, 1993) and in Angola (Moberly, 1999).…”

Section: African Street Children and Political Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…These factors are combined in many instances. Aptekar (1994) hypothesised that one reason for the great number of Kikuyu street children in Nairobi could be the rapid modernisation of the family due to men having being incarcerated during independence and women having to take on roles formerly associated to those of the husbands.…”

Section: African Street Children and Political Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Street children and political violence: a socio-demographic analysis of street children in Rwanda

Veale

Doná

2003

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Section: African Street Children and Political Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: African Street Children and Political Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Street children and political violence: a socio-demographic analysis of street children in Rwanda

Veale

Doná

2003

Child Abuse & Neglect

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“…Every street child has a reason for being on the streets. Children leave their homes and come on to the streets because of the inter-connection and relationship of three reasons; poverty, family violence and allure of modernity, which have destabilized the traditional family structures, whose consequence is broken families and child abuse [2,3]. The Bengali term of street children is 'Pathshishu' and informally people used 'Tokai' to address them.…”

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Study on the Nutritional Status of the Street Children at Shabagh Area of Dhaka City

Talukder¹

2015

IJNFS

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Malnutrition is a major health problem; especially in developing countries and it is the gravest single threat to global public health. Malnutrition is by far the major contributor of child mortality across the globe. A non experimental, descriptive action research with a multi-methodological approach study was carried out to assess nutritional status, sociodemographic condition and associated factors of the selected street children of Dhaka City. This study was conducted among 120 street children at Shabagh area in Dhaka city. All of the respondents were boys, and aged between 6-18 years. Methods included on site observation, completion of a standard demographic questionnaire, a validated quantitative food frequency questionnaire and anthropometric measurements. The nutritional status indicated that, 61.7% of the children were underweight and 38.3% of the children were healthy. According to this study about 31.7% were involved with different types of work and also 68.7% were not involved with any kind of work. Majority (87.5%) of the street children ate three times a day followed by another 12.5% having two meals a day.With respect to sources of drinking water, most (63.3%) of the respondents took drinking water from tube wells, while 36.7% of the respondents took drinking water from the WASA/Supply. Most (86.7%) of the respondents washed their hands before eating and 60.8% of them suffered from a disease in the 3 months prior to the study. It is necessary to design interventions that will prevent children from coming to the streets.

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“…A promoção e realização da resiliência são caracterizadas pela retomada do desenvolvimento saudável após vivências estressantes e podem ser estimuladas por características pessoais favoráveis e pela qualidade e coesão entre os ambientes sociais. Já o processo de vulnerabilidade caracteriza-se pela presença do risco pessoal ou social dentro das possibilidades de identificação, estruturação e vivência de psicopatologias e sintomas somáticos, mostrando as dificuldades de enfrentamento adequado e eficaz às situações estressantes vividas (ALVES, 2002;APTEKAR, 1994;GARMEZY & MASTEN, 1994;HAWKINS, 1986;HECHT, 1998;KOLLER & HUTZ, 1996;LUCCHINI, 1993;MARTINS, 1996;RIZZINI, 1986;RUTTER, 1993).…”

Section: Caracterização Da Situação De Risco Psicossocialunclassified

Pertencimento E Identidade Em Adolescentes Em Situação De Risco De Brasília

Ampuro¹,

Alces²,

Cárdenas³

2004

J. Hum. Growth Dev.

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Resumo: Este artigo apresenta resultados parciais de uma pesquisa sobre pertencimento e identidade de adolescentes em situação de risco da cidade de Brasília. Esta pesquisa, que está em desenvolvimento, objetiva tanto explorar a visão dos adolescentes sobre pertencimento quanto discutir as relações entre pertencimento e identidade no contexto de instituições de atenção ao adolescente em termos de suas fronteiras éticas e conceitos pedagógicos. Para isso, 21 instituições foram investigadas bem como 48 de seus adolescentes. O método inclui um questionário investigando as características básicas de cada instituição e entrevista semiestruturada com adolescentes. Os resultados sugeren^1 que o senso de identidade e pertencimento são vistos como importantes aspectos na vida dos adolescentes em situação de risco e que as organizações sociais que trabalham com essa população devem levar isso em consideração quando desenvolvem os seus projetos.Palavras-chave: adolescência em situação de risco; identidade; pertencimento. INTRODUÇÃO Caracterização da situação de risco psicossocialSegundo alguns autores contemporâneos

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Street Children in the Developing World: A Review of Their Condition

Abstract: The article reviews the literature on street children

Cited by 148 publications

References 29 publications

Street children and political violence: a socio-demographic analysis of street children in Rwanda

Street children and political violence: a socio-demographic analysis of street children in Rwanda

Study on the Nutritional Status of the Street Children at Shabagh Area of Dhaka City

Pertencimento E Identidade Em Adolescentes Em Situação De Risco De Brasília

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