THE DIFFERENT GROUPS OF STREET CHILDREN

"Street child" is a child who lives and stays homeless in the city without parental care and finds his or her means of living in the streets.

Street children can be divided into the following main groups:

1. Children on the street
- regular connection with the family
- many of them attend school
- on the streets they earn money needed for the financial survival of the family
- flee to the street from the oppressing atmosphere of the home and lack of space

2. Children of the street
- occasional connection with family, only seldom visit their home
- don't attend school
- flee to the street from the violence in their family, alcoholism of parents, or lack of care
- the home for them is a place of fear and misery

3. Children in the street
- no connection with family (or there is no family)
- they regard street as their home and search there safety and livelihood
- they gang up with other street children
- they are drug addicted

Source: Phyllis Kilburn