Runaways and throwaways kids. Who are they?

Some children in nowdays suffer from multiple situations, runaways and throwaways, are problems that affect children and young people, and consist in that they leave their homes and are in need of becoming homeless, and face problems that live in the street can appear.

Some of these kids do it voluntarily and others are forced to do it.
In case of runaways these leave their homes in a voluntary way, they take the decision, and  on the other hand the throwaways are forced to leave their homes and are expelled.


These problems are generated for many reasons and brings great quantity of consequences that were explaining in another post.

Resultado de imagen para runaways kids
                                     (DoSomething.org, 2015)


As we can see in the image, this girl living of charity in the street even with a dog.

They live through difficult situations in their short age, when they should been studying or looking for fun as normal children and teenagers. 
Many of these throw their life to the garbage and even they them lose being alone without any care or guardian.



(abc NEWS, 2014)


This video show more about this issue, and resume the situation that some of them lives.


By: Michael Loor 


Source:

DoSomething.org. (2015). young girl living from charity. Retrieved from https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-homeless-teens

abc NEWS. (2014). From Happy to Homeless: Teens in Trouble. Retrieved from http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/happy-homeless-teens-trouble-four-teens-slipping-through-social-cracks-us-14391952

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