Health Sciences 2700A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Habituation, Risk It, Survival Sex

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2700A/B
• Professor: Treena Orchard

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Homelessness, poverty, and risks to health: beyond at risk categorizations of street children panter-brick. Homeless and street children are commonly portrayed in the academic and welfare literature as a prime category of (cid:858)(cid:272)hildre(cid:374) at risk(cid:859) They have attracted world-wide attention due to rising numbers in cities of the western and developing world attached with a discourse of childhood that ascribes risk to poor urban children unaccompanied by adults on the streets. According to the inter-ngo consensual definition, street children were those for whom the street more than their family has become their real home, a situation in which there is no protection, supervision or direction from responsible adults. This identification of children in terms of global lifestyle characteristics has proven deeply problematic. The terms used to portray street children were unhelpful; it promotes a very limited understanding of their actual lives.