Street Children, AIDS Orphans, and Unprotected Minors: What You Read Is Not What You See

Summary

In this chapter, Aptekar offers to researchers what he has learned about street children and ethnography. Aptekar approaches this in three parts. First, he presents some issues related to understanding the phenomenon of street children. Second, he discusses his perspective on street children in their family and societal context. Finally, Aptekar suggests how researchers can collect valid and reliable data and understand how their own experiences may shape their interpretation and representation of those data.