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Article: Social Support and the Ability to Adapt to Life Among Brazilian Street Children and Non-Street Children.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Social Psychology
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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THE PROBLEM OF STREET CHILDREN has become increasingly apparent in countries throughout the world, especially in large cities (Blanc, 1994; Rizzini & Lusk, 1995). Whereas some street children maintain contact with their families and are in street settings to make money to contribute to their households, others are full-time residents of the streets and neighborhood shelters, having little or no contact with their families (Aptekar, 1994; Connolly, 1990; Rizzini & Lusk). Molnar, Rath, and Klein (1990) found that children living on the street were at risk for developmental difficulties far greater than those of the average child. According to Maslow (1968, 1970), children ...