Fourteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

Regardless of wealth, political ideology, government decree, or religious affiliation, there is no place in the globe that has succeeded in eliminating homelessness. This is extraordinary, when you consider that non-domiciled youth live in full public view without permission, even in the wealthiest nations. They are at once terrifying to the civil politic, deprived of any capacity to join society, and considered too potentially hazardous to leave unattended. There are boundless stories about non domiciled youth belonging to delinquent gangs involved in organized crime, pawns of drug cartels and war lords, and abducted into sexual slavery. The cross-cultural view presented in this study separates street children from homeless youth, and explains that there are many children in Latin America who are in street situations but not counted as street children.