Predykatory środowiska rodzinnego w procesie stawania się dzieckiem ulicy w Polsce
Family-Environment as a Predictor in the Process of Becoming a Street Child in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The phenomenon of street children in Poland is not widely discussed in scholarly publications, and the research into the causes of the problem has a marginal place in the subject literature. The presentation of the results of our analysis focuses on four factors: family structure, socio-psychological bonds, deviant behaviours, poverty and unemployment. This article seeks to analyse the immediate reasons for children leaving for the streets as indicated by street workers – the research participants. We would like to answer the question as to whether in the process of becoming a street child in Poland there exist some familyspecific predictors which could not be found in maladjusted children and adolescents who are not described as street children. In order to achieve this aim, we have first defined the concept of street children in the context of family dysfunction, as it is accepted in the subject literature.

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