Beginning street life: Factors contributing to children working and living on the streets of Khartoum, Sudan

Autor: Nassrin Dafalla El Hag Yousif, Mary L. Plummer, Mustafa Kudrati
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Children and Youth Services Review. 29:1520-1536
ISSN: 0190-7409
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2007.06.008
Popis: Understanding why some children work on the streets while others live there, and how causal factors differ by gender, is important in developing effective services for them. This study examined these questions in Sudan using participant observation, qualitative interviews, and surveys of working boys (n = 1025), working girls (n = 192), street boys (n = 397), and street girls (n = 35). Street children were less likely than working children to have local families (66% and 77%, p
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