The impact of living on the streets on latency children's friendships.
OBJECTIVE
This is a study to evaluate friendships in latency street boys of Porto Alegre, RGS, Brazil.


METHODS
A sample of 30 latency street boys was compared with a sample of 51 latency boys living with their low income families, using the Cornell Interview of Peers and Friends (CIPF).


RESULTS
The two groups had a significantly different CIPF global scores, and the boys of the street group had the highest mean score. Also, boys of the street had significantly lower developmental appropriateness, self-esteem and social skills scores than boys living with a family.


CONCLUSIONS
The urgent need for intervention street children, especially on boys of the street, is emphasized.
Rohde
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Departamento de Psiquiatria, Hospital de Clínicas, Porto Alegre da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, RS-Brasil. lrohde@zaz.com.br
Ferreira
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MH
Zomer
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A
Forster
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Zimmermann
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D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D005190:Family; D018453:Homeless Youth / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D012923:Social Class; D013037:Spatial Behavior; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires