This paper deals with a descriptive study on social support networks in 30 working children and 30 non working children. Their average age was 9 years, all of them lived with their parents in urban marginal zones of Lima, and assisted regularly to school. The results show that social networks of working children have a tendency to be wide and that their exchange relationship is based on functional and concrete aspects. It was also found that the adult members of the network maintained non satisfactory relationships with the children. As a consequence adults do not have a significant presence in the network. Parents maintain their presence due to stability and facility of their access. These characteristics belong exclusively to working children.

This paper deals with a descriptive study on social support networks in 30 working children and 30 non working children. Their average age was 9 years, all of them lived with their parents in urban marginal zones of Lima, and assisted regularly to school. The results show that social networks of working children have a tendency to be wide and that their exchange relationship is based on functional and concrete aspects. It was also found that the adult members of the network maintained non satisfactory relationships with the children. As a consequence adults do not have a significant presence in the network. Parents maintain their presence due to stability and facility of their access. These characteristics belong exclusively to working children.

La familia hoy en día juega un papel muy importante dentro de la sociedad; actualmente se encuentra que muchas sufren divisiones a causa de las separaciones, violencia, poca capacidad de relación, marcado individualismo, libertinaje, problemas económicos, psicológicos, sociológicos y sobre todo la falta del amor verdadero. Hoy en día se necesita el valor de estar dispuesto a querer unir tu vida con otra persona en un proyecto común en búsqueda de la felicidad; donde la pareja pueda desarrollar un camino de educación que estimule el crecimiento del amor verdadero. Por ello, es importante identificar si la espiritualidad del amor fortalece la vida de las familias, determinando si estimula la pedagogía del amor, su crecimiento oblativo, estimulando la vida de fe, acompañado de la oración y una vida sacramental. Este no es un camino fácil porque requiere paciencia, constancia, e...