INFLUENCE OF FAMILY VIOLENCE IN THE LIVES OF CHILDREN STREET WORKERS

Abstract

All we know a little view. We crossed in the corner of our city, we see them working, selling or just wandering around, hovering in the parks. They know much more in foster care. They seek places where they can have a roof over their heads. Almost all children working in the street have experienced situations of family violence of all kinds: physical, psychological and even sexual, they belong to lower strata of our society, living in a situation of extreme economic deprivation, with little chance of access to goods and resources in the community. The present study is prospective in nature explanatory type, since it allows us to establish the impact of family violence in the lives of children. The research responds to a survey design that was applied to a sample of children and a questionnaire was applied to the heads of the institutions that take in street children and teachers from schools where they study. We interviewed some children (by gender, age and type of activity performed) according to probability sampling. Focus groups were conducted with parents and with children in order to obtain information and life stories.Among the conclusions we have that the effects of physical punishment on children is devastating to their psychic development, especially when abuse occurs at home, which often becomes the most dangerous area for a child because there the degree of invisibility of violence is much higher than in other areas of society. Parents do not know that the Palmaz, verbal offenses or a routine punishment against their children can be catastrophic as low self-esteem, aggression, apathy, etc. there are not human rights treaty to support any type of violence against children.