SOCIOECONOMIC CAUSES OF CHILD BEGGING

Abstract

This study primarily deals with highlighting the socioeconomic causes of child begging in Islamabad city. It is an attempt to anthropologically analyze the livelihood of the beggary children, their way of life, and their leisure activities. To describe those factors, which have pulled these children into the field of begging? The objectives of the research focus on the root causes of the begging, how it emerged, and what are those factors due to which these children selected this socially unaccepted work. The objectives of the research will also deal with the influence of the family on the life of these beggary children. Keeping in view the range of this topic I used some research methods to emphasize and find reliable data on this particular problem. I used random and purposive sampling to collect informative data. To identify the main core factors of this social evil I also included the public’s perception in the data analysis. The main areas which I understood to be the pull factors of this begging business are begging has been gifted in inheritance and the other one is extreme poverty. In specific, the children in these circumstances, how they become able to manage their wages possible, their connections with that of the begging. Mainly, the study reveals the process of socialization that is quite different than that of the normal children and the system for schooling and the causes why the children were not interested in education in the schools or they were dropped by their parents. Last but not least, society considers them the burden on their social system and the children who are subject to unethical activities in the hands of the people. Thus, anthropologically, a holistic view is applied on the subject in a bid to produce the primary data and explore the factors behind the overt activities of their lives.