Psychological Principles of Preventive Measures Against Child Begging
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Abstract. The article is devoted to the problem of determination of child begging and outlining possible ways of its prevention. It is proved that the system of state regulation of the issue of overcoming child begging in Ukraine is ineffective due to the preservation of the formalized approach of the state to problematic categories of children and adolescents, lack of funding and unwillingness of the public to perceive begging as a problem of Ukrainian society. It is argued that a deep systematic study of the causes of children's tendency to beg and legal regulation of social relations in the field of family, organization of upbringing, education and leisure, health care, social security, public safety and other social relations are necessary. It is argued that it is impossible to resolve the entire range of problems related to the prevention of child begging by legislative measures alone. The adoption of state programs that define mechanisms for eliminating such childhood problems as begging, homelessness, and neglect is only the first step in the system of general prevention of child delinquency. The range of ways and methods of preventing and combating child begging is quite wide today, but the results remain disappointing. We see the reason for this situation in the existence of a certain gap between the decisions made at various state levels and the practice of their implementation.
Keywords: child begging; deviant behavior; prevention of child begging; homelessness; neglect.
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