Mathematics Letters 2017; 3(1): 12-19 http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/j/ml doi: 10.11648/j.ml.20170301.12 Social, Biology and Economic Life of Children Links on Street-Begging in Bangladesh: A Cross-Cultural Multivariate Analysis Md Kamruzzaman 1 , Md Abdul Hakim 2, * 1 School of Victimology and Restorative Justice, Institute of Social Welfare and Research, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2 Department of Mathematics, Light House Laboratory School and College, Tangail, Bangladesh Email address: shohag.mbstu.cps@gmail.com (Md K.), hakimaffairs@gmail.com (Md A. H.) * Corresponding author To cite this article: Md Kamruzzaman, Md Abdul Hakim. Social, Biology and Economic Life of Children Links on Street-Begging in Bangladesh: A Cross- Cultural Multivariate Analysis. Mathematics Letters. Vol. 3, No. 1, 2017, pp. 107-114. doi: 10.11648/j.ml.20170301.12 Received: February 21, 2017; Accepted: March 18, 2017; Published: April 14, 2017 Abstract: The study was conducted at four upazilas in Dhaka city of Bangladesh taking 70.73% boys and 29.29% girls using convenience sampling method. About 41.46% respondents were 2501-3000 BDT, 9.75% were 1001-1500 BDT and 3001-3500 BDT earners having 82.92% respondents no link with other occupations. Some 53.66% fathers of the respondents were rickshaw pullers, 17.07% farmers and beggars as well as 46.34% mothers of respondents were housewives, 26.83% beggars and day labors in occupation. About 60.97% respondents came in begging from the slums and 63.41% respondents adopt begging due to their poverty and 34.15% were forced beggars. Keywords: Poverty, Street-Begging, Socio-Economic Condition, Multivariate Analysis, Bangladesh 1. Introduction Begging is the practice of imploring others to grant a favor, often a gift of money, with little or no expectation of reciprocation [1]. It means soliciting or receiving alms in public place, whether or not under any pretense such as singing, dancing, fortune telling, reciting holy verse or performing tricks; entering in any private premises for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms; exposing or exhibition with the object obtaining or extorting alms any sore would, injury deformity or disease; having no visible means of subsistence and wandering about and remaining in any public place in such condition or manner as makes it likely that the person doing so exists by soliciting or receiving alms; and allowing oneself to be used as an exhibit for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms under the provisions of Bangladesh Children Act, 1974, Section 2 (c) [2]. Begging is defined by the Buffalo Human Rights Law Review as “the activity” of asking for money as charity on the street [3, 4]. Macdonald defined begging as asking for alms or charity given out of sympathy to the poor [5]. The simplest way of defining begging is to ask for money without any return of services [6] and it is a street level resource for the poor and powerless [7] and the solicits alms receivers to sustain livelihood are called beggars [8]. The definition of a beggar is very wide and all encompassing. A penniless person who begs alms or lives by begging or a person who has no money or resources is called beggar [9]. It is also said, a beggar is someone who lives by asking people for money or food [10]. Beggars are the members of the society who have been neglected entirely in many spheres in Nigeria, both socioeconomically and politically, they have no pride and dignity to protect in a society due to their begging business engagement. There are two main types of beggars: full-timers and part-timers. The former type of beggars engages in street-begging activity on regular-basis or daily-basis and openly done it, while the latter type of beggars engages in begging activity on irregular-basis or occasionally-basis and not done openly [11]. Beggars are found in public places such as transport routes, urban parks and near busy markets [12]. There are found mostly eight categories of beggars, such as Juvenile beggars; Physically and mentally handicapped; Diseased; Religious mendicants; Able bodied; Aged and infirm; Casual beggars who resort to begging only as a stop gap arrangement till they are able to secure some casual