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There have been many studies in multiple countries about "street children"—youth who have run away and are presently homeless—showing that they have a high risk of taking illicit drugs, developing sexually transmitted infections (STIs), unintended pregnancy, depression, suicide attempts, and sexual exploitation. [7]
Homeless children sleeping in New York City, 1890. Photographed by Jacob Riis.. Youth homelessness is the problem of homelessness or housing insecurity amongst young people around the globe, extending beyond the absence of physical housing in most definitions and capturing familial instability, poor housing conditions, or future uncertainty (couch surfing, van living, hotels).
Homeless children pose serious problems when it comes to their success and their future. Such problems include hunger, poor nutrition, developmental delays, anxiety, depression, behavioral problems, and educational underachievement. [21] Social isolation is thought to be more a consequence than a cause of family homelessness. [22]
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2011), there were 408,425 youth in the United States in foster care in 2010. [2] Foster care is a division of child welfare services that places a child in an interim home when parents or guardians are unable or unwilling to adequately care for the child [3] or when the child has experienced a trauma by the guardians or parents. [2]
Shinn and Gillespie (1994) argued that although substance abuse and mental illness is a contributing factor to homelessness, the primary cause is the lack of low-income housing. [34] Elliot and Krivo emphasize the structural conditions that increase vulnerability to homelessness.
United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley’s Home for Good program conducted the annual Point in Time count to assess the number of homeless. An increasing number of children are experiencing ...
Factory closings and a deteriorating economy have made it difficult to pay rent. Two million people's addiction to drugs has caused parents to divorce and young people to leave their homes. [3] Seven out of ten people said that the cause of homelessness was being rejected from the family and being abused at home.
A 2012 study conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University concluded that the U.S. treatment system is in need of a “significant overhaul” and questioned whether the country’s “low levels of care that addiction patients usually do receive constitutes a form of medical malpractice.”