..small children forced to beg on the streets..
By subhojit10
@subhojit10 (7375)
India
March 6, 2013 12:11pm CST
Hey guys, every time i see a small child begging on the streets, i get confused whom to blame for this case. Whether it is the Govt is to be blamed to have failed to provide free education to all the children or is the family of those children to be blamed for having forced them to beg on the streets.
In fact Indian roads are mostly characterized by such children who r so small that u would get startled. i encounter these children every day while going to my office or to any other place. I sometimes feel like not helping them as i feel like as if i am feeling pity over them. i think strong action should be taken against those families who r forcing their children to do so. I have heard that some families do this knowingly so that people would feel pity on these children and would give more money. This is such a vicious circle.
What r your thoughts about this guys? Whom do u think should be blamed for this? Have u ever seen children begging on the streets? Please do share your thoughts!
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@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
6 Mar 13
We have that same problem here in mexico. Mostly outside the stores and banks here. its very sad to see them.
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@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
13 Mar 13
Thanks a ton for sharing your valuable response. Well i am shocked to hear that the same issue persist in your country as well. It is indeed terrible and sad to see such children doing beggary in front of us when they should be actually holding books and toys in their hands. My heart goes to all those hapless and helpless children.
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@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
13 Mar 13
Its real bad here, I want to help. But we cant help all of them. So how do you give to one and not to another?
@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
13 Mar 13
Yes u are absolutely right, the situation becomes terrible when there are so many of children begging around u. if u help one, the other one follows u and that irritates me the most. That is the reason why i have neglected helping such children most of the time as i doubt whether they r actually begging or they r forced to do so.
@Kashidanga1971 (1354)
• Bangladesh
6 Mar 13
Hi subojit, I'll blame govt who could not provide education or employment to those unfortunate begging kids. Govt has not been to play the role of a friend, philosopher and a guardian to its subjects. Are we not living in a state? So what is called living in a state? So to speal the truth govt is alawas running after raising their own interest. Its sad.
@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
13 Mar 13
Thanks a ton for sharing your valuable response. Yes u are absolutely right, even though we have several laws and policies regarding provision of free education to all the children still they have failed to implement them properly due to which we are able to see such helpless children begging on the streets. it is high time that our govt realize their mistakes.
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@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
17 Mar 13
I know in many countries Govt is not doing enough to check this issue otherwise this issue could have been handled in a better way. Had they kept the prices intact and have flooded people with employment opportunities then we would never have encountered such things on the streets.
@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
16 Mar 13
its sure the governments fault here in mexico. here they dont help the disabled or the mental at all. Real wrong...
@dandan07 (1906)
• China
7 Mar 13
Here many children beg on the streets, some are doing it as a career, while most of other are doing it as a part-time job.
It is true that most part of people in the country are poor, so making sure that the children can have enough money to further their study, some parents will bring their children to the city in the vocation and beg money for their next seminar.
It is really a cruel society, but it may be the only way for the family to find money for their children's education. The only thing the government do here is taxing people.
@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
13 Mar 13
Thanks a ton for sharing your valuable response. Yes u are absolutely right, parents also force their children to beg on the streets so that out of pity and sympathy people would give more money to them. Besides i do not understand how they consider begging as a job for them when they could have done something better for themselves.
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@Tushavi (2077)
• Karachi, Pakistan
7 Mar 13
I'm from Pakistan, same happening here, one of the Taxi driver said that to me, If you see the standard of living of those child beggars or those who are behind this??? you would not hesitant to Make them in lines & shot at site, he tells me that they have money you never imagine, You earns $500 very hardly but those beggars earns more than $1500 per month easily...
@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
13 Mar 13
Thanks a ton for sharing your valuable response. Well yes now i got to know that this situation is present in most of the countries and as u have mentioned, even i have heard that such beggars disguise and ask for money and are actually richer than us which is very much shocking. i cannot understand how they can compromise with their ethics and values.
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@lucas5 (455)
• Sao Paulo, Brazil
13 Mar 13
Well, I think that here in Brazil the problem is worst, they use children to beg and they don't give money or food to then, they spend all the money on drogs.
thank you for your discussion and for share this with us!
@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
16 Mar 13
Thanks a ton for sharing your valuable response. Well i am shocked to hear about this pathetic condition in Brazil, i think people have become heartless and emotionless due to which they r doing such things. Children are not meant to play with rather they should be encouraged to become future citizens of their country but unfortunately this is not happening.
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@roshigo58 (4859)
• Pune, India
7 Mar 13
Hi,
Poverty is the main reason for this. Poor people have more than three children. And they have no way of earnings and expenses are more. Parents have no jobs and their children don't get education and due to lack of education they also don't get job and they remain poor.
@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
13 Mar 13
Thanks a ton for sharing your valuable response. Yes u are absolutely right, poverty is to be blamed for this as well. When poor people have no way to earn their bread they think this is the best way to engage each of the members of their family into this. Poor people they are, who should never face such situation but destiny has something in store for them.
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@tipay26 (867)
• Philippines
7 Mar 13
Hello there! Small children begging on the streets or asking for money is a natural scene here in my country.They were used by syndicates to earn money by asking for alms.It is heart melting seeing these kids on the streets they can get all the diseases found on the streets.they can get wet when it rains.Here in my country kids like that were wandering at our major roads asking for money to motorists, the bad side was that they can be hit by a fast moving car and die and no one will help them.In regards on who to blame for this, I think the parents of this kids should be to blame.They should not let their children wander in the streets and work or ask for money.They should be the one doing those for their kids.
@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
13 Mar 13
Thanks a ton for sharing your valuable response. Yes u are absolutely right, these children have nothing but to get forced by their parents to beg on the streets and as u have mentioned the parents r to be blamed for this situation. they r intelligent that if children r begging on the streets then the heart of the people would melt and they would give them money.
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@greenthumb018 (595)
• Philippines
7 Mar 13
I don't know who's to blame. There are lots of kids like that here in my country and some of them are not even orphans. They have parents and they are allowing them to beg. Sometimes they are being brought to child care by the government but they always find a way to escape preferring to beg than go to school or be taken care of by the government. So it's really confusing why these children are thinking that way.
@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
13 Mar 13
Thanks a ton for sharing your valuable response. Well i am shocked to hear that the same issue persists in your country as well. what is more shocking to hear is that children are escaping from the child care centers to beg and not to study. i do not know why they r doing like this. They should realize that they r not born to beg but to create an identity for themselves.
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@jiiiiin (586)
• Philippines
7 Mar 13
Same scenarios here in the Philippines. Every time I am riding a jeepney going home a kid from nowhere will pop up inside the jeepney and starting to beg for money. Some kind hearted people give money some are just ignoring them. They say these kids are handled by a syndicate to beg on streets. I don't know if this is true.
@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
13 Mar 13
Thanks a ton for sharing your valuable response. Well yes this is true, i cannot say that all r handled by the syndicates but their r some children who work for them. Even i get confused whether i should help them or not, i feel like helping them all the time but at the same time i feel if i feed them it is like encouraging beggary.
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