Mostly children run away from their houses due to different factors like negligence, physical abuse, without knowing the problems they have to face after running.This thing can be best explained by the word ‘corporal’ punishment. It is the use of physical punishment or force to correct a child’s behavior. Other definition of this term can also include mental abuse, physical abuse or humiliation intended as discipline. This issue is quite common in our country and regularly practiced in the Schools, Madrassass and homes, which is the major reason for a child for a child to runaway. Abuse and violence in school may include exploitation by peers or teachers, bullying, sexual abuse and harassment. Thousands of children, mostly runaways, roam the streets of Pakistan’s major cities to earn a living, preferring the streets to their homes. Many children run away because of the following reasons:

• Constant quarrels of parents, causing severe insecurity in the child.
• If they feel unloved.
• Sibling rivalry or arrival of a new child.
• Fear of physical danger like the father beating them for a certain wrongdoing.
• Fear that there will be withdrawal of emotional support for wrong doings.
• Failure or decline in the examination or test paper.
• If prone to impulsiveness.
• To accompany a friend in distress.
• Many children run because they run to a better life and many feels if they don’t run, they might end up found in severe situation.

Many children are the victims of abuse, whether it can be verbal, scolding slapping, shouting, twisting ears, insulting, beating by their parents, step parents, older sibling, also can be by other relatives. This situation effects the child development whether it can be mentally, emotionally, socially or behaviorally.Mostly school dropouts belong to poor families and end up on streets where they are exposed to all types of abuse and exploitations.
These children are not carter or treated well. There are often treated or dismissed as “druggies”, “Aids infected” or “prostitutes” etc

This is the most vulnerable group to Child Sexual Abuse. They are forcefully involved in it by the organized crime network, and latter it becomes a means of survival in the streets. Their erratic existence some times produces distortion of the mind in the younger children who lose track of time, and distance, they do not know how long they are wandering.