Abstract
As you begin reading this review, it is quite possible that you are wondering why you are doing so. What do runaways have to do with pediatricians or pediatricians with runaways? It may seem a subject more fitting for a Sunday newspaper supplement and, indeed, it oftentimes has been one. It has also been the subject of such alarming movies as Harddcore with George C. Scott. Statistics are certainly scary. One reads of 1 or 2 million runaways a year and of the estimated 4,000 to 7,000 teenaged prostitutes working in the Times Square area of New York City. This recent publicity is somewhat overwhelming, and is in stark contrast to the benign, romantic image of the runaway with which many of us grew up. This more comfortable runaway is Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, the young rascal who runs away to join the circus, or the young adult telephone man in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie who falls in love with long distance. In addition, some of the professional writings about runaways suggest that the older views are more accurate. They express the importance for some adolescents to get away and work out their own destinies outside of the perhaps repressive or chaotic atmosphere of their families.
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