Argumentative Essay On Street Children

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"We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can 't solve." (Linda Lingle, 2013) The title "street children" refers to children who, due to a collection of socioeconomic reasons, have found themselves living on the streets of their town or city. There are many causes to street children as said by Lugalla and Mbwambo, 1995. Some of these causes are of natural causes, whilst others are man-made. A child may have lost his or her parents and so those children have nowhere to go, hence, they live on the street. Also, some parents throwaway their children if those children are handicapped or are a result from an affair. In addition, there is an overwhelming number of effects on street children …show more content…
A parent who tortures his child should be punished by the authority or the government in general. Although, law enforcement has more advantages than disadvantages, it can sometimes cause and lead to the breaking of a family. The laws ' main concern is to keep children in their homes safely. However, a child abuse report can lead to the removal of the child from that home away from his or her parents. It can also cause the parents to be punished and forced to stay away from their …show more content…
However, this solution may have disadvantages as some people might think. For example, some people may believe that if you offer those homeless people with food and shelter they’ll be lazy to learn and find jobs in order to give back. On the other hand , many of those street children and homeless people have a high percentage to can giving back to the world and get in jobs if we help them and lead them to this. Nobody knows when he or she might end up like them and therefore, one should offer help and donation to those people in need. Helping those children and the homeless is just part of our humanity and one shouldn’t ignore the needs or the help others may need and one should try to offer support. Also, this solution for providing food ,shelter , and education needs too much money to create and build and therefore, it can be hard to achieve such goal without the help of others by donation and

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