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Objective: Leaving home and family by teenagers and young people without their parents’ and legal guardians’ permission is a kind of reaction to a situation which is unpleasant, unbearable, and unchangeable for them. This is a defense mechanism to decrease life difficulties and get rid of harmful situations and achieve demands and dreams, but evidences indicate that running away not only doesn’t decrease girls’ problems but also enters them to a damaging social cycle which leads to many negative subsequences for them and their families. Method: This article is on the basis of a field study findings and analyzes subsequences of girls’ running away from home by using 3 methods together: survey, case study, and focus group research. Findings: After running away, girls encounter with some consequences such as school leaving, relationship with opposite sex, sexual abuse, prostitution, membership in gangs, depression, self-mutilation and suicide, drug or alcohol abuse, and being rejected by family they all entangle them in many emotional and social damages. Conclusion: The present study provides the results in 3 levels of individual, family, and social consequences, because girls mostly run away from home with no program for future and insufficient awareness of consequences. These lead to numerous inevitable problems and damages for them.

واژه‌های کلیدی: پیامد خانوادگی، پیامد فردی، دختران فراری، پیامد اجتماعی

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