Every year the numbers of children on the streets continue to increase at alarming rates which presents a concern for the Government. Public hygiene demands an immediate action to resolve permanently this problem which is costing the nation and the citizens as well. Mexico is not benefiting from a future adult population that is not being productive or meeting the minimum needs for a Mexican citizenship. Mexico's suffering economy has increased the signs of abject poverty. The crisis bring greater unemployment and unemployment leads to greater poverty.
Poverty expels children onto the streets.
Many parents cannot longer support these growing families. These homeless children tend to become drug users which are bought with the day's earnings from begging or any other simple job. Every day more and more children join the ranks of homelessness, mainly from the southern states of Veracruz, Oaxaca, Michoacan, and Chiapas, which have been hardest hit by rising unemployment and poverty. Street youth are not the problem but rather a symptom of the real problem. These children are evidence of how the recent economic adjustments have damaged the weakest members of the country.