Street Kids : : The Tragedy of Canada's Runaways / / Marlene Webber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Webber, Marlene,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Introduction --; 1. Street Kids --; 2. Destroyed and Destroying Families --; 3. Sexually Exploited Kids --; 4. Homeless and Hungry --; 5. The Crime Traps: Poverty and Illiteracy --; 6. Drugs: Killing the Pain --; 7. Beating the Street --; NOTES
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442657311; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442657311
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Marlene Webber.

In cities across North America, teenage runaways are struggling to stay alive. Some don't make it to adulthood. Some do, but their lives rarely rise above the despair that brought them to the streets in the first place. A few manage to beat the street, to get their lives back on track. In this disturbing account Marlene Webber draws on extensive interviews with these kids to explore the realities of street life, its attraction, and its consequences.Street kids like to project an image of themselves as free-wheeling rebels who relish life on the wild side. All brashness and bombast, they strut around inner cities panhandling, posturing, and prostituting themselves. Labelled society's bad boys and girls, they often live up to their image. But as sixteen-year-old Eugene tells us, the street forces bravado on homeless adolescents, 'but underneath, a lot of kids are plenty scared.' Eugene is only one of many street kids who talked to Webber in major cities across Canada. She lets her subjects tell their own stories; their voices are sometimes brave, sometimes bitter, often heartbreaking.Webber cuts a comprehensible path through the tangle of forces, including family breakdown and social-service failure, that accelerate the tragedy of Canada's runaways. She suggests measures that might help more of them beat the streets.