Living in Chile we see stray dogs every where, have you ever thought about if each stray dog was a street kid? Street kids what we think are orphans, but in actuality they are all not orphans. There are two kinds of street kids: kids ON the street, Kids OF the street. Just a two letter word make all the difference. Kids ON the street are children who do have a home to go an live in. Though home is a kind way to put it for sometimes homes are the reason they leave. They have a family (usually with their mom, very rarely is the father there and if there is one its a step-father) and a house, but they live off the street for food and money to help support their family. Kids OF the street are kids who are most likely orphans and who live on the …show more content…
Physically it effects a child because they will join gangs and do drugs. The biggest drug choose is Glue which 80% of the kids abuse, though Cocain is making its way up there now. The reason drugs are so big because it fights off hunger, fear, loneliness and dependency. How they buy it effects them physically to for girls its by sex. Sex is big way to gain money there its a survival sex to them, and thats with adults getting STDs. They also sleep with each other but not for money, but comfort, pleasure, show of power, and for some gangs ritualized gang rape. Another way sex effect the street girls particularly is they have abortions 25% of girls claimed to have at least one before. This leads to mental effects. One is they never got a proper education past 2nd grade or less of an education. Though some reporters found it hard to get any real responses for street kids are smart and have learned how to get sympathy by acting as if they are poor scared kids. This is not saying they are, they just know how to milk it to there advantage. Though it is said that street kids are often tenacious and positive, but they are on the streets with not much guidance so they do see horrible things they see and have done to them creates trauma and effects developmental growth and do not know how to properly cope with what they feel. Though they do, do good about not letting the emotions be profound and …show more content…
For they are the victims of people who think the only way to deal with all the street kids is to eradicate them. They are called “death squads” self appointed vigialenties who will go around and kill children who live on the street. As if the kids didn't have enough to worry about they have to deal with them. There is an account in Brazil from March to August 1989 were they had 457 murdered street kids all because of “death squads”. That is about 2-3 kids per day killed for just living on the street. All for them living on the streets they are considered a nuisance. To them annoying like a stray dog, they shoot them like one. Once they shoot 50 kids who were sleeping, seven children and one adult died and many were injured. Only 2 of the 8 were convicted and imprisoned the others were not. 90% of children die by killings killers go unpunished. Kids on the street are not handed anything and work for
In the ethnography With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth on the Road and in the Streets, she combines her understanding of her previous researches with her current study in order to enculturate street youth behaviour. Finkelstein attempts to answer two distinctive questions about street youth. First, she tries to understand what occurrences result in youth being on the streets? Secondly, once youths are on the streets what do they experience? In answering these questions, Finkelstein attempts to address the lack of “information on the lives of street kids” (Finkelstein, 2005, preface) that is available to the general public. She conducts ethnographic interviews, in order to analyze the similarities and differences between the youth’s backgrounds. The author utilizes various ethnographic methods in an attempt to accomplish her goal. Although ...
Even with the daily struggle faced by youth in obtaining shelter and homelessness becoming a reality for a growing number of Canadians, Canada, with its high quality of life is one country that has always had a global long-standing reputation. This paper will be working towards giving the reader a better understanding with regards to homeless youth. It will be focusing on the reasons why they leave home, their lives on the street and steps they are trying to take to be able to leave the streets. An important finding from this research suggests, “the street youth population is diverse, complex, and heterogeneous”. According to Karabanow, made up of a number of subcultures including hardcore street-entrenched young people, squatters, group home kids, child welfare kids, soft-core twinkles, runaways, throwaways, refugees and immigrants is the generic term ‘street youth’.
Youth homelessness in Ontario is not a new phenomenon, it has become more and more severe over the past 20 years. “One third of homeless individuals on the streets are under the age of 25”(Cino, Rose). It is a significant social justice issue in Canada. Within our community people are increasingly aware of the sight of youth sleeping in parks, asking for money and sitting on sidewalks. Youth homelessness in Ontario is primarily caused by tragic life occurrences such as abuse, illness or unemployment.
Throughout the article “The Code of the Streets,” Elijah Anderson explains the differences between “decent” and “street” people that can be applied to the approaches of social control, labeling, and social conflict theories when talking about the violence among inner cities due to cultural adaptations.
Homeless situations are a concern because there are a number of homeless children in the United States and continues to rise (McDaniel, 2012). Homeless people struggle to survive because they live in housing that is not livable or does not have a home and therefore, they live in cardboard boxes, in the alley, or wherever they can find shelter. In reality, this affects the ability for a
Children should not have to go through any of that. It is quite unbelievable but “HIV rates for homeless people are three to nine times higher than report rates for competitive samples in the US. A study across four cities found a prevalence of two point three percent for homeless youth under twenty five” (“eleven facts about homeless”). “Two million and two hundred thousand children die each year due to the fact they do not become immunized. Fifteen million children orphaned due to HIV/AIDS” according to Snah. The HIV rates for homeless children are not good. The rate needs to go down. Out of all the runaway youths, over forty percent have been abandoned by their parents. Also, over forty percent have been beaten by their parents (“eleven facts about homeless”). It is proven children with homeless mothers are more likely to stay with them than if their father had been homeless (“Homeless”). Almost half of runaways happen when they have been abandoned or
Children are very easy to influence, they want someone to look up to and be a leader for them. If a child is growing up in an unstable household where the parents are always out working and trying to make ends meet, they might get involved in gang activities since there 's no on at home to tell them the difference between right and wrong.
Child abuse affects different people on various levels. The long term results can lead to prison or even death. There are many victims in the crime of child abuse that could be mentally scarred throughout adulthood. Abuse can lead to growing up in foster care, developed disorders and insecurities, inherited behaviors of abuse, prison, and death. The issue is serious and more attention is needed to reduce this crime and hopefully eliminate it someday.
There are millions of homeless youth in America. On any given night, you can find these children ducking into abandoned buildings, crammed up against alley dumpsters, curled inside the big yellow slide of a local playground. I imagine they are thankful for sleep, wary of a new day, but thankful nonetheless. Homelessness at such a young age if left alone, leads to increased rates of conflict. The more homeless youths now, the more our country as a whole will have to deal with divorce, mental illness, and the need for government assistance.
Data has shown that in 2002 there were thirty-eight thousand street children but now that number is estimated to sixty-thousand. There are many different reasons why this massive increase happened. There were many refugees from Iran and Pakistan that were forced out of their homes. Also, fathers would either get injured or die in the war. Therefore, the orphaned children have no choice but to help support their families. The children found many other ways of earning money besides selling plastic bags. They learned how to repair bikes, work for shoe-makers or ask for alms to get the waft aromatic smoke made to ward off the devil at people passing by (Haidary).
poor”( Papalia et al. 295). Thousands of children around the United States sit on street corners
Imagine eating Christmas dinner underneath a bridge on the cold dirt because you and your family were evicted from your home. Just trying to find a single meal is what thousands of people, who live on the street, go through each day. They have been kicked out of their houses and apartments because they can't afford rent due to their low paying jobs.
The effect that trafficking has on their victims is the same effect that people have when they were raped, sexually harassed, etc. People who were trafficked tend to suffer from serious health problems including physical health, reproductive health and mental health problems. Mostly women but men too tend to go into physical exhaustion and become victims of unwanted touching, grabbing, oral sex, anal sex, etc. Mental wise the victim might have many emotional effects, severe stress and depression.
The break down of neighborhood relation and social institutions create a higher likely hood that young people will affiliate with deviant peers and get involved in gangs. When there is lack of social controls within a neighborhood the opportunity to commit deviance increases and the exposure to deviant groups such as street gangs increase. Which causes an increase in the chances of young people joining street gangs. If social controls are strong remain strong within a neighborhood and/or community the chances of young people committing crime and joining gangs decreases. Many young people join street gangs due to weak family relationships and poor social control.
One of the biggest factors that make a child more vulnerable to child prostitution than another is unavailability of food, shelter, clothing, and additional resources. “Police officers, academic researchers, and social workers agree that poverty makes teenagers much more vulnerable to sex traffickers” (Shen, 2013). An offender would not select an adolescent that belongs from a wealthy family, solely due to the fact that he or she is fully aware that the family of the child is capable of taking care of the child. In a wealthy family, complete attention is given to the child in the household. Because of that, the chances are the offender would get caught and be charged guilty of the heinous crime. Proper support from family and friends does prevail. Therefore, a child suffering from poverty or poor family background is more vulnerable to child prostitution, as he or she has no support system, or the resources like the wealthy and fortunate children.