Tiwari Poomima Agnihotri, Gulati Neena, Sethi G R, Mehra M
Department of Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Pediatr. 2002 May;69(5):397-9. doi: 10.1007/BF02722629.
Insufficient research has been done to look for the factors compelling children to make street, their home. The study was conducted at a Child Observation Home to which street children from all over Delhi, are brought.
Each boy admitted during the specified 6 months period was interviewed. Chi2 and Fisher's test were applied. A total of 400 boys were studied, 9.8% of these had not run away from their homes and 89.2% were "Runaways". These two groups were compared and following factors were found associated with the "Runaway" group.
Majority (55%) had left home between 10-12 year of age. They were more from "Joint" families. A higher percentage had literate fathers. A higher percentage had no parent earning and a higher proportion of "Not Runaways" had only the mother earning. Presence of a step parent, guardian other than the parents and intra-familial physical abuse were found associated with "Runaway" group.
The most common reason for running away was; beating by parents/relatives, followed by a desire for economic independence (28.5%). Other reasons were maltreatment by step parent/s, being both parents dead argument with parent etc. The factors emerging can be useful for identifying high-risk families with children in pre adolescent age and hence for prevention and rehabilitation.
对于迫使儿童流落街头的因素，目前的研究尚不充分。本研究在一家儿童观察之家开展，该机构接收来自德里各地的流浪儿童。
对在特定6个月期间入住的每个男孩进行访谈。应用卡方检验和费舍尔检验。共研究了400名男孩，其中9.8%并非离家出走，89.2%是“离家出走者”。对这两组进行比较，发现以下因素与“离家出走”组相关。
大多数（55%）在10至12岁之间离家。他们更多来自“大家庭”。有文化的父亲所占比例更高。没有父母挣钱的比例更高，而“未离家出走者”中只有母亲挣钱的比例更高。发现继父母、非父母监护人的存在以及家庭内部的身体虐待与“离家出走”组相关。
离家出走最常见的原因是遭父母/亲属殴打，其次是渴望经济独立（28.5%）。其他原因包括遭继父母虐待、父母双亡、与父母争吵等。所发现的这些因素有助于识别有青春期前儿童的高危家庭，从而用于预防和康复。
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