The Depiction Of Street Children In The World

There are about 2.2 billion children in the world (Every child counts, 2014), and all of them have the right to live happily. Many people might think that it is natural for children to live in a house with their family, to eat every day, and to go to school. However, in actual fact, not all children in the world can have their own home and live happily, and they are often called street children. Surprisingly, street children can be seen not only in developing countries but also in developed countries like America or France. There are a lot of things people do not understand well about street children. This essay will explain the situation of street children, street children in France, and solutions to help street children.

First, the situation

(Street children, n.d.) However, this number is not clear because it is impossible for governments or organizations to analyze all street children in the world, and they estimate that the number of street children is increasing steadily every year. Street children do not have a home, and they survive on dirty streets where public sanitation is not provided because of various reasons. Each street child has a painful reason and history. Some of them have familial reasons such as abuse and neglect, and others have social reasons, for instance, war, poverty, and emigration. Therefore, they have some problems and troubles. At first, they cannot keep their health condition. They always starve for food, and they cannot live anymore without begging from someone on the streets for food or finding food

Many people might wonder why there are street children in France. When they hear the word, France, most of them might regard it as a big and rich country because it is known as the most popular country of tourism. Many people want to visit France in order to go to historical or cultural places and brand shops every year, so they think France is a stable country. Another reason that France is a developed country is its social systems. France’s taxes are relatively high compared to other European countries, but people in France can have a good guarantee for their life. (The world factbook, 2009) In particular, in the case of children, they can go to school for free through the age of eighteen, and they also have medical care for free. Therefore, parents in France can bring up their children easily. However, the problem of street children is getting more and more serious in France despite of such good systems. According to Tunakan (2015), 3 million French children suffer from poverty, there are 30,000 street children, 9,000 of them are migrant workers, and 140,000 of them leave school each year. This problem is caused by economic crisis and migrant children who do not have their parents. The movement of migrants to France started from around the 1980s and 6,000 foreign children move to France illegally each year in order to change their life since then (Rivers, 2012). It becomes difficult