CURTAILING CHILD STREETISM AS A STRATEGY OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIAN CITIES
| dc.contributor.author | Adejare, Jacob Ayorinde | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-06-04T08:52:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-06-04T08:52:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The twenty-first century presents a hostile face to many millions of children in many African countries. An increasing number of children are being forced to the streets as a result of poverty, physical and mental abuse, torture, rape, abandonment, domestic violence, unorganized physical environment, inadequate care, death of a parent (or both parents), need for income in the family, inability to continue school, housing challenges, insecurity and many more . It is in this view that this study attempts to device strategy for curtailing child streetism in Nigeria cities using Ibadan in Oyo State as a case study. The study relied mostly on Primary and secondary data. Data were obtained from 233 street children using systematic random sampling techniques representing 20% of the sample frame across the selected data delineated areas. The reasons why most children took to the streets are: Abandonment, homelessness, domestic violence, lack of food, presence of alms giver on the street among others. There is, therefore, the need to curb the menace of child streetism. This could be achieved through socio-economic restructuring programme such as poverty alleviation programme; Housing provision using cold alert approach; Planning./smart growth and management of open space in the cities; Security measures to curb street children involvement in crime; Public enlightenment/ education and enactment/enforcement of legislation against child streetism. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Adejare Jacob Ayorinde | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Adejare J. A., Folaranmi O.M. and Oyejide I. O (2017), ‘Curtailing Child Streetism as a Strategy for Sustainable Development in Nigerian Cities’. Journal of Planning and Development (JPD), Department of Urban and Regional Planning, The Polytechnic Ibadan, Nigeria. No. 2, Vol. 1 pp 50-65 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 978-55822 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.run.edu.ng/handle/123456789/5184 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Department of Urban and Regional Planning, The Polytechnic Ibadan | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Vol. 1; No. 2 | |
| dc.title | CURTAILING CHILD STREETISM AS A STRATEGY OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIAN CITIES | |
| dc.type | Article |