Once a child leaves the family home for whatever reasons -to live on the street, they labeled as a street children. Street children are the causalities of economic woes, war, poverty, loss of traditional values, domestic violence and physical and psychological abuses. They seldom have a choice in becoming a straw in the wind and going to school is always out of question. For kicks, these young souls turn to narcotics or to sniffing rubber solvent. Many street children gather money by begging, selling flowers, washing cars, shoe-shining, working in small hotels, selling water, and newspapers or other items or via prostitution, receiving only a small cut from the money that gets collected. In this study the researcher used observation and case study method to analyses the problems faced by the street children. The study took place in slum area at Chennai nearby Chennai harbour. I spent 5 weeks on the street children. This approach was appropriate as it is descriptive, and it attempts to take hold of things as they appear and interpretive.
