become dominant, or have emerged under the war-time conditions. The first
category of phenomena includes “street children” – beggars, vagrants,
thieves, etc.
Problems
I. At the outset, the division should be made into professionally begging
children: those who were either already begging before the war, or
their parents were beggars or vagrants, and children who have been
brought low by the war and have been pushed into the worst poverty
along with their families.
II. There are children who beg because they do not have a home, are unattended,
have nothing to live on (i.e. begging out of necessity and without
necessity).
III. There are children whose parents send them out to the street, they go
with the child, or the children are on their own, as they can evoke pity
more easily (children sent by their parents and begging on their own).
IV. The methods children use to beg.
V. This phenomenon occurs frequently – there are children who prefer
being on the street to staying in a facility (abandoning the facility and
returning to the street).
VI. “Street children” in the summer and winter months.
VII. The impact of the street on children.
VIII. The attitude of a street child to his or her own family, siblings (earning
money to support the family, taking care of siblings).
IX. Family attitude towards a begging child (solicitation to beg, passive
consent, condemnation).
X. A begging child as an isolated phenomenon in the family, or common
for specific siblings or families.
[2] XI. Cases of spontaneous breaking with begging.
XII. In addition to begging, other problems include: vagrancy, theft, grabbing
strangers’ parcels, looking for sources of income too early in life.
XIII. How can Social Care help to save children from complete ruin?
