This study aimed to reveal the effects of early period mother-child relationship with regards to Object Relations and Attachment Theory in the process of starting to live in the streets, via three teenagers who have lived in the streets for a while. In this respect, three teenagers staying at İstanbul Youth, Rehabilitation and Vocational Training Center, a subsidary of İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality Directoratre of Almshouse, were interviewed. These interviews were held using one of the

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... itative methods, which is biography analysis. The missing personal information about the three young people was gathered by the social-demographic form given at the end of the interviews. At the end of the interviews held with each of the three teenagers, findings which reveal the importance of the relationships that they had with their early period mother on the process of the teenagers ' starting to live in the streets were gathered. The teenagers 'early period motherchild relationships were discussed with respect to Object Relations and Attachment Theory. It was seen that the teenagers had limited and traumatic relationships with their mothers in their early childhood period and these relationships affected their lives in a negative way. It was seen that these negative impacts had an effect on leaving the places where they had lived and starting to live in the streets. The biographies of the teenagers also revealed the fact that none of these teenagers had functional family structures and they had been exposed to severe traumas since their childhood period. The traumatic behaviours that the teenagers were exposed to by their parents in their childhood period, their starting to work in the streets, the unhealthy peer relationship that they had built was seen to have an effect on the process of teenagers 'starting to live in the streets. It was seen that the teenagers kept on having traumas also in the streets and they were not protected well enough by the service models that they were in touch through this process.