Statistics about Runaway and Thrownaway

Information based in the National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children, U.S. Departament of Justice , that presents different information, and  the problems most common in de society about the children or teenagers.

The diagram below illustrates the proportional relationships

between all runaway/thrownaway children and

the subsets who were caretaker missing and reported

missing. It also shows that children who were reported

missing are a subset of those who were caretaker missing.

The Data based in the percents of the children that doesn't have caretaker, and the percents of missing and endangered

Different reasons that children disapear or runaway to the home, and also different missing of teenager. 

The Next table is about characteristics of children like, gender, race/ethnicity, and the age.

The majority of the percent of children and teenager, have a different problems or different reasons, for they take a decision about the runaway, but in others case the problem the have the parents, because don't pay attention to childrens or don't talk with they.

All the data is about Investigation of Departament of Justice. 

Differents between Runaway and Thrownaway

The biggest difference is that runaways is when a child decides leave to home for reasons like family problems, violence, sexual abuse, etc. And thrownaways is when the child's parents throw out the child to the street.

Thrownaways are more psychologically affected by this situation because the parents tell to them that they have to leave home and they don´t know where to go or what to do because having to leave home was unexpected for them. On the other hand runaways in some cases they know where to go or what to do after leaving home because they have time to they have time to plan before leaving home and they can return to home because they decide leave home, nobody threw away them.

Preventions

Ways to prevent it

•    Help support group, counting the experiences you've had and accepting help
• Receive motivational interviewing, which will help you get ahead if there is a problem.
• If the problem is in the home and the person wants to run away, a good idea would be family therapy.
• Communication is an important factor that will help people to understand each other.
• Another reason why some adolescents or adults run away from home is because the influence of their "friends" and go to live on the streets for use drugs or drinking alcohol. A way to prevent this from happening is to seek special help to take care of people who have problems with alcohol and drugs and help her with this person is going to feel safe where is living and he/she will have no reason to run away
• If the person thrown away because they consider it an object, the best way to prevent that is to call different assistance centers, so you can get another home, because the place that this is being treated badly or maybe even in some cases the person may be suffering sexual, physical or psychological abuse.
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Reasons about Runaways and Thrownaways

Runaways and Thrownaway of kids and teenagers has been a social problem. Reports on the matter suggest that boys fleeing their homes each time at a younger age, which undoubtedly poses a risk to their health and integrity.According to data from the National Registry of Information on Missing Children, 83.5 percent of the cases reported in the first half of the year are children and adolescents who voluntarily left their homes, motivated by situations of domestic violence.The general coordinator of the Registry, which depends on the Secretariat of Human Rights of the Nation, Cristina Fernandez, said that "84% of those cases were already solved", while warned of the "feminization of the phenomenon" since "70 percent of children are missing women."In most cases, it is "voluntary abandonment of domicile motivated by violence, whose root is in patriarchy, older than capitalism institution and the suffering of all women."On this point, Fernandez itself also explained that the figure of patriarchy "it can be banished from the legislation and practices, but also banish heads", while adding that the abuse "is often invisible and parents tend to blame external factors for the sudden absence of their children. Parents do not tend to take responsibility for the actions that we make on our children but we put it out and say 'my child is a victim of human trafficking'. "For the official, keep in mind that many children leave because parents beat them or mistreat them. "Many parents believe they can choose sexual orientation, boyfriend or girlfriend of their children, for example."The intention is that this line body begins to also function as a means of prevention so that children do not escape."We have to visualize abuse and start telling the boys: they can not hit you, they can not abuse you, your right is that you listen and there are state agencies that have an obligation to listen. So before you go, call the 142, "said Fernandez.Of course, in this universe can not be narrowed down only to issues of domestic abuse, since, according to explain those working in the field, each case contains a universe and so there is a multiplicity of causes that explain the phenomenon.Violence behindWhile most appear within a few days, experts recognize increased quite remarkable problem. "What we can not determine is whether there are many more cases or if now complain more," says Lidia Grichener, president of international NGO seeking lost children, but says that "all indications are that the kids seek escape from his home ages that they did not before. "Experts point out that, until recently, leakage of household were more related to adolescent turmoil, and even those leaks grew year-end, which is the time when family conflicts related to examinations or failure appear school. "Many children are afraid to go home if I was wrong," says Grichener.

Definition Of Runaway

A runaway episode is one that meets any one of the following criteria:

• A child leaves home without permission and stays away overnight. 
• A child 14 years old or younger (or older and mentally incompetent) who is away from home chooses not to come home when expected to and stays away overnight.
• A child 15 years old or older who is away from home chooses not to come home and stays away two nights.
  
    

  Definition about Thrownaways 

  A thrownaway episode is one that meets either of the following criteria:

  

  • A child is asked or told to leave home by a parent or other household adult, no adequate alternative care is arranged for the child by a household adult, and the child is out of the household overnight.
  • A child who is away from home is prevented from returning home by a parent or other household adult, no adequate alternative care is arranged for the child by a household adult, and the child is out of the household overnight.