ÇOCUGUNU SOKAKTA ÇALISTIRAN AILELERIN SOSYO–EKONOMIK PROFILI, TUTUM ve BEKLENTILERI

This study has aimed in drawing a general profile of the children who has been employed in street works in the Central Town of Sivas city, and their families; and in determining the socio–economic structure of the parents and the attitude taken by them on the employment of their children. The study has been limited to the identification of the existing situation, and does not attempt to determine the casual variables in the employment of children at streets, and the relation between the variables. The most significant finding obtained in this study is, contrary to what is belief that the problem is not mainly caused by the economic poverty. It has been seen that extension of the problem is due to a severe lack of education and awareness, that the parents has, in this way, intended to train their male children in particular, and that this is for the most part caused by the parents' wish to teach their children the principles of “entrepreneurship” and to make them socially active and participative rendering them "shrewd" and “go–getter”.