The influence of the drugs in the life of the street children

Abstract

The paper focuses partial dates of the thesis about the trajectory of a group of school-age children who used to frequent two public São Paulo city shelters. The data, gathered by means of interviews, were analysed according to the theory of the Social Representation and method of the Analysis of Contents. The thematic theories detached from the speech transcript, were grouped into meaningful experiences for the children, among which "the drugs". The synthesis of the analysed categories showed clearly that violence permeates the lives of those children, resulting in experiences that restrict their full development. The thesis points out that the drugs are the away of insertion at the group peers homeless.