Abstract: The purpose of this study was to find out the challenges posed by street children both to parents, government and their effects on the environment at large. This study is revealing that there is an urgent need for these children to be taken off the street before Boko haram recruits them into their camp in Nigeria. The research was carried out on 5 selected gang-outs of the street children in Calabar Metropolis of Cross River State. A survey questionnaire was administered on a sample size of twenty five children culled from five selected gang-outs in Calabar Metropolis in Nigeria. A four point Likert-scale rating was secured as the instrument for data collection and the questionnaire was face vetted and validated for data collection. The respondents indicated the extent of their agreement to the items based on the scale points; strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree The responses were weighted against the options and the mean score derived by summing the weighted scores and dividing by total number of responses.
Keywords: Street, children, parents, family, future, abandoned, government, environment, society, homes, and education.
Title: The Taxonomy of Street Children and Their Effect on the Society
Author: USANG, ETENG ELOMA (Ph.D), OKPECHI, PHILIP ABANE (Ph.D), EKPO, ENO BASSEY (M.Sc)
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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