This text approaches some possibilities to begin a discussion about the social significance of the elaboration of the strategies of survival of the adolescence of the popular sections. It focuses the difficult relationship of the poor and hard-laboring adolescence with the formal school, the boys' and street girls phenomenon under the perspective of the terminology change to designate the children and teens labor or their visible survival strategies in the streets and the process that she accomplish putting upon the new and the old social exclusion in Brazil goes this portion of population. In Brazil, the new roll-neck of the market and of the labor relationships they mean to turn superfluous economically lives than 1/3 of the population. Not just because he have little possibility of being absorbed by the new technician- economical pattern, how because he doesn't have qualification goes such. His place tends to be the secondary economical space, of low productivity and smaller remuneration, the one that doesn't allow supply their basic needs. The boys and the girls, usually, begin to exercise activities of generation of income or of survival of the family that, little by little, they go if familiarizing with activities in the street: to beg, to collect materials recycled or to drive the wheelbarrow, and little by little space if distancing of the school. Just to labor in the street doesn't take the boys and girls to live in the street. The economical situation common of these families, and the physical aggression, usually on the part of the parents they reinforce the rupture of the family affectionate bows. The proportion of the children and teens contribution to the total family income, the non-attendance to school among teen's workers and the number of hours of children and teens work increase with the decrease of the adult family income. Objectives: Which the factors that unchain the process of break of the family and school bond. Methodology: The universe of the research was restricted to the 12 year-old adolescents' labor to 16 years - tended the perception of the linked adolescent to the values of the family and of the labor, opening up the possibility to analyze the perspective of the adolescent's social representation on his labor, or of the activity that develops while survival strategy, considering that to verbalize capacity lives developed in this phase, and that the culture of the street already part of his identity. Qualitative and quantitative researches accomplished with boys and girls of the city of Ijuí, RS, Brazil, in December of 2004. Results: The girls, same frequenting goes team the school that the boys, in the society suffer lives goes her unequal condition of gender when belonging to the groups of larger social exclusion. Conclusion: While they are children, they wake up the mercies and they are objects of the public charity. When they grow, besides they are unproductive, they act, in the social imaginary; the danger goes the safety and the morality. Therefore they are segregated, excluded, stigmatized, rejected. Added the subject of the domestic violence resulted also have the historical process of the inequality of the gender relationships.