{"title":"Breaking the Cycle of Despair: Street Children in Guatemala City","authors":"T. Lave","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2143988","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the problem of street children in Guatemala City. It provides a description of the way street children live and offers several theories as to why the situation arose. Finally, the Article critically discusses attempts to help the street children of Guatemala and proposes alternative solutions. In researching this Article, the author spent time working with street children in Guatemala.","PeriodicalId":80967,"journal":{"name":"Columbia human rights law review","volume":"27 1","pages":"57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Columbia human rights law review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2143988","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article focuses on the problem of street children in Guatemala City. It provides a description of the way street children live and offers several theories as to why the situation arose. Finally, the Article critically discusses attempts to help the street children of Guatemala and proposes alternative solutions. In researching this Article, the author spent time working with street children in Guatemala.