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Family in crisis : explaining the new phenomenon of street children in Trinidad. (Record no. 44983)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name PHILLIPS, Daphne
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Family in crisis : explaining the new phenomenon of street children in Trinidad.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1994
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Discusses the recent emergence and alarming increase of street children in Trinidad. Traces the relationship between family and society, highlighting the impact of slavery and indenture, patriarchy and poverty, structural adjustment and the international economic order. Concludes that street children in Trinidad are the victims of peripheral capitalism and globalisation, not the result of any inherent inadequacy and moral breakdown in Caribbean family life.
583 ## - ACTION NOTE
Time/date of action 3/7/00
Action agent M2LMGR
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Analytic

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