A street child is someone under age 18 years who spends a considerable amount of time living or working on the street. Street children may have either run away from the home without their parents' permission, been forced onto the streets by their parents, or be orphans. Data are presented on 1147 street children aged 8-19 years interviewed between May 13 and June 9, 1997, in four market areas...

OBJECTIVE This is a study to evaluate friendships in latency street boys of Porto Alegre, RGS, Brazil. METHODS A sample of 30 latency street boys was compared with a sample of 51 latency boys living with their low income families, using the Cornell Interview of Peers and Friends (CIPF). RESULTS The two groups had a significantly different CIPF global scores, and the boys of the street group...

The purpose of this study was to determine the self-concept street children at theRehabilitation Social Home for Nusantara Children. This research method is qualitative with adescriptive approach interview, observation, documentation, case studies. resourcepersons consisted social orphanage coach (PRAN), two children. data collectiontechnique carried out by interviewing all informants, and resu...

Background: The nature of continuous exposure to the street and its associated life‐styles make street children vulnerable to the use of psychoactive substances. Aims: The aim of the present study is to study some social factors of street children in Guwahati city and to ascertain the substance use behavior of the street children. Subjects and Methods: A population based cross‐sectional study c...

Background: Addiction is one of the main problems of human societies, which is more common in developing countries. In addition, it causes to personal and social problems and family problem. The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in children 5-15 years old of opioid or methamphetamine dependence patients. Methods: For this study, three groups including: (1)...

There have always been orphaned, abandoned and working children in the world. Historically, however, adequate systems to deal with these children existed. In the more industrialized societies, they were placed as apprentices, into foster care or in institutions. In the more traditional societies, they were absorbed into the extended family network. Many of these same tactics are still used in i...

Using an experimental design, we analysed differences in the occurrence of cognitive-evaluative distortions and performance deficits across children with social anxiety disorder, with subclinical anxiety and without any anxiety symptoms. Twenty-one children with full syndrome social phobia, 18 children with partial syndrome social phobia and 20 children without any symptoms of social phobia wer...

objective: according to the significant role of mothers’ personality traits and their training styles on the genesis of children’s initial personality and destructive manners, present research compares early maladaptive schemas of mothers of children with attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder, mothers of children with oppositional defiant disorder, and mothers of normal children. methods: t...