The juveniles running away from home : field study

Abstract EN

Children are subject to many types of behavioral problems, including theft, fraud, and running away from home.

Many of these social deviations are due to the frustrations in their daily lives, this, can lead to the feeling of disorder and anxiety and so it's can drive children to get rid of this repetitive feeling through one of the aforementioned forms of responses after failing to work on the suitable social modalities.

In order to determine the real reasons for the escape of the child - the juvenile - from the home, we conducted the field study in two centers for re-education; the first in Al biar, which is for boys, while the second is found in Bir khadem for girls.

In order to carry out the field study, our research sample contained 48 juveniles committed the act of running away from home (intentional sample).

We adopted the technique of the interview in order to obtain information, and in order to analyze the collected data, we used the descriptive analytical method.

The study reached the following results, that family rifting and social upbringing disturbances lead to the flight of the juvenile from the home as well as the failure of secondary socialization institutions such as the school and the community to play their roles a role in the flight of juveniles from the home.