Their Home Is the Street - Donald D Schroeder - March 1984

Donald D Schroeder

Their clothes are ragged and dirty. Their bed is a sheet of cardboard wherever they can hide from the probing sweeps of the police. They huddle together for warmth and protection. They struggle to survive by their as young as age 5. Most are boys, but girls now and then join them. Most of these girls turn to prostitution or servitude to survive. In one degree or another they all have been abandoned by families unable or unwilling to take care of them. Most no longer know regular family life, only fleeting parental ties. Some, having been beaten and abused by parents, chose to leave them. These scores of thousands of abandoned children in Latin America are not alone. Their tragic story is played out in many poverty engulfed, economically depressed cities of the world in Africa and parts of Asia. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library