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- Select Gender, Country ( Bur of Democracy, Human Rights & Labor - Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Although there were no reports
of abuse of street children, the life of these children often involved
violence and abuse. Often these children were fleeing violent and abusive
homes. Street children frequently turned to prostitution for income. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2004 [58] While noting the efforts
undertaken in this regard, the Committee expresses its concerns at the
increasing number of street children in the State party, as well as the high
percentage of foreign children among them. Last May, the German daily
newspaper Tagesspeigel warned that in Berlin one
child in three lives off 'Hartz IV' (government
aid). This is a new high for Germany and is more than twice the national
average. Is it an avatar of reunification? 60% TO 70% OF THE EAST - Individuals in the field and
NGOs continue to criticise this situation. 'We are
counting more and more children on the streets,' warns the person in charge
of the Strassenkinder or 'Street children'
association. They run away for economic reasons, but also because they are
abused, beaten, mistreated or they are simply missing love and attention. Although this problem is still
much smaller than in other European capitals, 60 - 70% of Berlin’s street
children come from the east, according to Eckard
Bauman. As far as teacher Manfred Endom is
concerned, there has been a degradation in the
school system and he is worried about growing child poverty. Street
Children on the Rise in Germany, Aid Agency Warns Germany is one of the wealthiest
countries in Europe. Yet thousands of children are living on the streets,
according to the children's relief organization Terre des Hommes
(TDH).
"We have observed this development in Germany for the past 10
years," TDH director Peter Mucke
told the newspaper Neue Osnabrücker
Zeitung on Thursday. "In this time, the number
of street children has grown significantly." Mucke quoted
statistics by the German Ministry for Family Affairs, which estimates that
there are up to 7,000 children living on the country's streets. Street Careers In Germany Between Families, Youth Welfare Services And Prison [DOC] ARE THERE STILL STREET CHILDREN IN
GERMANY? - 'Street children in Germany' has
been one of the favourite topics in the media in
the nineties of the last century. They really exist, even though they ought
not to exist at all. For in Germany, all minors who cannot or do not want to
live in their families have the right to be looked after by youth welfare
services – and these services are obliged to look after these youngsters.
This is granted by the German Child and Youth Service Act. Nevertheless, there have always
been children and juveniles who withdraw from the institutions of socialisation, namely family and school, or from
community homes and focus their lives on the streets. But since the beginning
of the nineties, their number seems to have increased and they seem to have
become more endangered by alcohol, drugs, prostitution, criminality and
permanent homelessness. Perspectives [PDF] [page 2] STREETKIDS
IN GERMANY - Every
year in Germany there are up to 2500 children and youths, from 12 years of
age and upward, living on the street. They flee from
negligence, ill-treatment and abuse, and live from begging, prostitution and
petty theft. Street kids dream of a safe and secure place and don’t want to
live forever on the street. Quite often they are inconspicious,
young people - unremarkable in looks. They come from all classes and walks of
society and are not only found among bright-haired punks. They would like to
go to school or to start a professional training. Sensitivity is often an distinguishing trait. A lot of them are from rural
backgrounds and hope to find happiness and luck by disappearing into the
anonymous life of a big city. Children
ON the Street - Children OF the Street In Homelessness
in Germany - The visible form of true poverty An analysis of how/why some
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