The Impact of Homelessnes on the Moral Behaviour of the Sheltered Street Children ( Field Study) / Anbu Raj, Anish Mathew , Jobin Jose, John Kennedy.

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Literature Review ................5 A. Street Children .................5 Defining a street child ..........5 Life of a Street Child .........5 Three major Categories of Street Children ...............6 B. Causes for Leaving their Home ..........7 Broken Families .......7 Harassment from Alcoholic Parents ............7 Ill-treatment by the step-parents ........7 Poverty ............7 Influence of Peer Group .........8 Bad Environment ........8 Dis-interest in Education ............8 C. Employment of the Street Children ..........8 D. Major Problems of the Street Children .............9 E Studies conducted on Street Children ......11 F. Researches in India on Street Children ......132 G. Psychological Theories of Moral Development ..................16 H. Psycho-Social Impacts on the Street Involved Children ........22 I. Convention of Rights of Child ............22 J. Ethical Perspective.............23 K. Research Gap ..........23 L. Objectives ...........24 M. Statement of the Problem .............24 2. Method ...........25 A. Research Design ................26 B. Context of the Study ............27 C. Research Setting..........28 D. Geographical Area of Study ...........28 E. Particular Institutions for the Study ..................32 F. Sampling distribution of the area ..........33 Sample Selection ..........33 H. Tools.............34 I. Research ethics followed in the Study ............36 Procedure ..........37 Data Coding and Management ..........37 Coding and Value cleaning .........38 3. Result..............39 A. Preliminary Analysis .............39 Demography ...........40 Major Analysis ..........40 Parent Personality ............52 Correlations ........................54 4. Discussion .................57 Adverse childhood Experiences ...........58 Perception about the family ...........59 Reasons for Disturbance at family ..........60 Parent child Relationship..........60 Parents Personality ...........63 Role of Parents in Moral Development ..............64 Realistic Ethical Positioning and idealistic ethical Positioning ...........66 Bible and Children ..........66 Catholic Teaching on Relation of Parents and Children ..........71