Street Children
...children.
In the old times, and still now in some areas, children worked with their parents and reamed a lot of things from them; later, children looked after aged parents, and therefore much value was put on children, and there was strong bond of affection between parents and child.
However, now it has changed. Parents go to work, and children do not go to work with them. Children only cost much money for food and education. Parents of a poor family are suffering from much financial stress. As the stress becomes bigger, their love for their children decreases. Then, a home, which should be a place children receive affection, becomes a place where they receive pain physically and mentally. Therefore, in some cases, children choose not their house, but the street.
Street children may express satisfaction with the freedom from abuse by parents or by siblings; nevertheless, their lives seem not so easy.
They live from hand to mouth, working in some odd jobs; if they have no job, the steal to eat, and if they have extra money, they buy drugs.
In general, street children's lives are rather short. They are in bad health, because of their abuse of drugs, venereal disease and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Some are killed in conflicts with rival gang groups. Sometimes children's corpses are discovered in the condition in which their internal organs are removed skillfully. They are used for organ transplants in secret.
Furthermore, if they could grow up, the situation might be worse because they would grow up with no special skills and the few jobs they could do would all be taken by younger children. Therefore, their future seems difficult.
Most people are not acting for street children; however, some are tackling this problem earnestly. They proffer social programs and shelters, where children can take a shower, sleep free from care, and can obtain...
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