Factors That Have the Potential to Cause of Street Child Violence at Ambengan Surabaya

This study was aimed at describing the presence of child abuse in the family and the causes of the violence. The study was conducted to street children at Ambengan, Surabaya, Indonesia. A qualitative method was administrated using the data collection techniques of observation, interview, and documentation. Besides, the data analysis technique was based upon the technique of data analysis interactive model of Miles and Huberman, which included data collection, data reduction, data display, and verification. Besides, triangulation techniques were used to test the validity of the data. The results revealed that violence against children happened due to several factors as follows:1) family factor that included broken home, family psychologically immature, and the education level of parents. 2) environmental social / community factor, the family financial matters, and 3) the internal factors of the child. Furthermore, this study exhibited focal point that the impacts of violence on children led to the worse of child's psychological growth and character. In other word, children who were exposed to violence were likely to be rebels, dropouts, temperamental, and indifferent to the environments, particularly families. In addition, this study found that parents’ parenting activity could affect children's emotions.