Abstract:

This research is carried out with the aim of determining the coming reasons of adolescents who are living in 109 youth homes in Turkey. Coming reasons to the youth homes and their numbers are as follows: (i) to force to get married (n=36), (ii) to force to get married when he/she stays at youth home (n=82), (iii) divorce of parents (n=4540), (iv) to be abandoned by parents (n=2216), (v) death of parents (n=12353), (vi) insufficiency in terms of economically (n=3716), (vii) incest case (n=174), (viii) sexual abuse (n=309), (ix) physical and emotional abuse (n=938), (x) and other reasons such as disability of parents, honor killing, and force majures etc. The number of adolescents who came to youth homes are 2209 and the number of adolescents who are waiting for being accepted to youth homes are 2000. Comparison of adolescents is performed in terms of gender, location and period 1996-2004 as well. Key words : Youth home, adolescents, coming reasons.

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