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Peer reviewedAptekar, Lewis – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1991
Ethnographic methods coupled with ethnohistorical documents make it possible to learn far more about 56 street children in Colombia than through logical empiricism alone. Many street children fare better than is the popular perception, and many are part of families that function to bring them to early independence. (SLD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Neglect, Children, Economically Disadvantaged
