What about the family?

How is the family affected by this phenomenon of children running away from home? When you are concern for a certain issue…there is always too many stories to tell about that issue; as for example what happens to a family after a child has escaped home.

Of course the conditions are not the same neither for the families of runaways or thrownaways.

Since they both are so different the reactions of the families are going to be as well different.

For once you have the runaways’ families; after the incident and assuming they are good parents then they’re most likely worry for their child not coming home. Where did he or she go? Why did he or she go? And more importantly where is he or she now? They will probably report that to the police and be worrying sick until their child return home.

And then there are the thrownaways who are probably not going to be reported to the police, and whose families are almost certainly not worried about why they are not home since they may have been the one to kick them out or force them to leave. 

Source: Neira, E. (2017)

Source: (Chávez & Sánchez, 2016)

Source

Chávez, R., & Sánchez, L. (2016). A runaway episode is one that meets any one of the following criteria:. Retrieved: 2017. From. http://problemsoftheteenagers.blogspot.com/2016/05/definition-runaway.html