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In most cities and towns, there is this group of marginalized people who spend a greater part of their lives on the street. They are the street children commonly referred to as the “chokoras” who consider the street to be the best place. In most cases they are forced to run away from home due to certain reasons. It is surprising that in most cases boys or male children are the ones who end up in the street.
Some of the reasons why most boys end up in the street include: effect of peer pressure especially from the friends who are already disillusioned in life, abandonment by caregivers who should be on the forefront of helping them to be responsible people in future, harsh or violent nature of the homes that they live in since some parents or caregivers tend to use threatening language towards their male children or even sometimes subject them to physical abuse.
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