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In Latin America, street children are commonplace, everyday presences. They are street vendors, street workers, and street entertainers, as well as beggars and thieves. [6] Although street children may occasionally prostitute themselves, child prostitutes and victims of human trafficking are not generally considered street children. There is no ...
A majority of the street children in Latin America are males between the ages of 10 and 14. There are two categories of street children in Latin America: home-based and street-based. Home-based children have homes and families to return to, while street-based children do not. A majority of street children in Latin America are home-based. [76]
Rooted in poverty, as elsewhere, the problem of child prostitution in Angeles City was exacerbated in the 1980s by Clark Air Base, where bars employed children who ended up as sex workers for American soldiers. [15] Street children are at particular risk because many of the 200 brothels in Angeles offer children for sex. [16]
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Health problems are major problems of street children in Ghana. Streetism exposes the children to a lot of health problems and other hazards. The children work in unconducive environments and they are vulnerable to defilement. [14] Major diseases affecting street children include malaria, fever, cold, rashes, cholera, headache and infections.
Latune finished the year of probation with no problems, right around her critical 16th birthday in June. Even as most of the nation has moved toward treating 16-year-olds more like the kids they are, New York’s archaic justice laws make it easier for teenagers like Latune to end up in tough jails with long sentences and an inescapable record.
Articles relating to street children, poor or homeless children who live on the streets of a city, town, or village UNICEF's definition covers boys and girls, aged under 18 years, for whom "the street" (including unoccupied dwellings and wasteland) has become home and/or their source of livelihood, and who are inadequately protected or supervised.
Critics have also claimed that large families are caused by lack of contraception and exacerbate Third World poverty and problems such as street children in South America. The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development published a paper stating, "Any strategy that enables a person to move from a higher-risk towards the lower end of the continuum ...