POOR, SINGLE - MOTHERHOOD AND ITS EFFECT ON JUVENILE DELINQUENCY A STUDY OF VAGRANT CHILDREN

Abstract

Alot has been said about vagrant children (hence parking Boys) of the streets of Nairobi in the past. This includes some of the speeches made by some of the senior most civil servants and politicians in this country, who have blamed and condemned such children as an embarrassment to the country, this research will carry out a comprehensive study of such children and to find out whether these children or their parents (guardians) should bear the blame, or whether the blame rests on other sources, far from reach of neither these children nor their parents. The research would also' like to come out with some the of concomitants and consequences of poor, single-mother-hood. It is one thing 'to be a single mother and it is also another thing if this single mother is poor. At the same time this research would like to compare and contrast the type of child who comes out such a family and that who comes from a family with both father and mother, but where these parents live in constant conflict with one another (empty - shell type of family). Finally, this research will come up with some suggestions as to how to tackle the problem of vagrant children through working with the parents of such children as well as through working with the children themselves.