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Peer reviewedAlexandrescu, Gabriela – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1996
Interviewed Bucharest street children, most between 11 and 15 years of age. Found that most left families, not institutions. Half were from intact families characterized by many children, an incarcerated parent, physical violence, sexual abuse, or alcoholism. Most worked either begging or in casual labor, and engaged in substance abuse.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcoholism, Child Abuse, Children
