SOCIAL WELFARE OF STREET CHILDREN

Often we find children aged under 15 years and some even still toddlers with behavior patterns that do not reflect the child's prospective future generation dedicated. They live completely irregular. His days are only used to make ends meet is not clear. Such as busking, begging, and so forth. Usually they indulge in the intersection, sidewalks, bus terminals, markets, sometimes on campus exists.Street children is a phenomenon which occurs in reality the children are poorly maintained and needs less attention so that children should switch professions are still taken care of by their parents into the search engines work or becoming street children. Ministry of Social Affairs defines a street child is a child who spends most of his time to earn a living or loitering in the streets or other public places.According to the 1945 Constitution, "waif is maintained by the state." This means that governments have a responsibility for the maintenance and development of neglected children, including street children. Human rights of abandoned children and street children, essentially the same as human rights in general, as stated in Law no. 39 of 1999 on Human Rights, and Presidential Decree No.. 36 Year 1990 on Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (the Convention on the Rights of the Child).

 Street children are seen from the causes and intensity they are on the streets is not generalized. Judging from the cause, it is possible not all children are on the streets due to economic pressures, perhaps because of the association, runaways, parental pressure, and so forth.Actually, many factors could be the cause of the emergence of street children. But the most dominant the cause of street children is a factor of social and economic conditions due to the presence of factors in addition to broken homes and many other factors. Since the economic crisis diera nowaday many poor people who received less attention from the government. So that makes the children feel the situation inevitably falls into street children. Then the issues that arise here are those of the street children in general are in the productive age. The age at which a child gets a chance to get an education bench.Government agencies are also working hard to tackle the problem. As performed by the Government of DKI Jakarta, namely the construction of Shelter Homes. The goal is to have them built up street children, educated, and given provisions skills to be able to live independently in the community and can participate optimally in the development of the nation without having to plunge again into street children. Because they are potential human resources for national development.On the other hand, stability is a dynamic state of both communities, government agencies and the government itself in the country. With street children properly handled will strengthen social welfare for the betterment of the nation.

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