Synopsis This book studies a close relationship between the problem of street children and the problem of child abandonment destitution and neglect. Apart from the basic causes of poverty and deprivation, the rapid industrial growth and rural to urban drift of the poor in search of livelihood appears to be a major factor in the emergence of the problem of street children. Children find themselves often in a situation of stark deprivation in close neighbourhood of abundance. Denied of an equal sharing of socio-cultural and economic opportunities, they become vulnerable to various forms of abuse and exploitation and tend to slide a culture of crime.