Surviving Transitions
From: wvmeero
Added: 08 January 2008
Street children are too often seen as the problem, rather than one of its symptoms. Children don’t take to the streets because they want to beg, sniff glue and pursue a life of crime. They are fleeing poverty and broken families, alcoholism and abuse. They do not immediately realize they have leapt from the frying pan into the fire.
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