Disadvantaged Children in India Empirical Evidence, Policies and Ac
This book addresses issues concerning five major categories of disadvantaged children, namely street children, children involved in trafficking, child labor, slum children, and children in institutional care, which apply to a large number of children arou
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Disadvantaged Children in India Empirical Evidence, Policies and Actions
Disadvantaged Children in India
Sibnath Deb Aleena Maria Sunny Bishakha Majumdar •
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Disadvantaged Children in India Empirical Evidence, Policies and Actions
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Sibnath Deb Department of Applied Psychology Pondicherry University Puducherry, Pondicherry, India
Aleena Maria Sunny Department of Applied Psychology Pondicherry University Puducherry, Pondicherry, India
Bishakha Majumdar Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Indian Institution of Management Visakhapatnam Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
ISBN 978-981-15-1317-6 ISBN 978-981-15-1318-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1318-3
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Foreword
Around 39% of India’s population of 1.36 billion are children. Of these, millions of disadvantaged children live on the streets, in slums or institutions. They are especially vulnerable to being exploited for child labour, trafficked for prostitution, organ harvesting, illegal adoption, child marriage and begging. They are also susceptible to being recruited into gangs where they commence a life dependent on petty theft and crime and may end up incarcerated. Disadvantaged children are denied access to education, health and opportunity, curtailing their potential as adults and adversely affecting their physical and mental well-being. Young girls from disadvantaged backgrounds fall prey to forced marriages and being trafficked into sex work. All these vulnerable children fall through the cracks of inadequate systems that fail to protect their rights as children, even though Indi
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