Özet:

Children’s working is a much layered problem. Poverty lies the foundation of this problem. Because poverty cannot be prevented, families are migrating from towns to cities and they begin to work in marginal jobs. Children enter into working life early with the aim of supporting their family. The children who couldn’t complete their development in a healthy way, also have to cope with the disadvantages of working conditions. In this study the aim is to determine the problems of working children and their future expectations. A conversation form related with the problems of children, is prepared and practiced in this research. Besides this, children’s future expectation is evaluated by analyzing the Hopelessness Criterion data. As the result of this research; economic difficulties of the child himself and his family comes first among the reasons of child’s working. It is seen that children couldn’t find free time to themselves because their working hours are too much. Also, when the hopelessness points of children are examined, it is seen that their “finding their wages enough” and “being pleased about their working conditions” especially affect children’s hopelessness levels. Another important result is that a meaningful difference from the point of view of hopelessness levels is found between the children who are pleased about their working conditions and the children who are not.

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