In her article “ Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids.” Anna Quindlen discusses the issue about homeless families in the United States and the impact of homelessness on the children. Quindlen describes one situation where six people, a woman and five children, live together in a room the size of a master bedroom. The idea, Quindlen says, is that the ineffectiveness of the welfare system has negative impact on families, particularly, mothers and their offsprings . She poses the statement that each day the younger children go to daycare, while the others go to school. During that time their mother, Sharanda, looks for an apartment when she isn’t at her drug-treatment meetings. Quindlen suggests that ultimately shelters will become the…
The subject of our research topic were homeless people. We had chosen this topic out of curiosity and wonder about the cause behind homelessness. Our hypothesis was that alcohol and drugs play an important role and are the leading cause of homelessness and expected more males or an individual homeless person. To conduct our field research we had gone to The Samaritan Center in Simi Valley and interviewed the homeless people. It was really shocking to see that mostly, the homeless people were families with small children. Upon interviewing them we figured that alcohol and drugs had no connection with their homelessness.…
Homelessness has a profound effect on people. Life for a homeless person is very hard.…
“With respect of gender, the majority of the single homeless individuals are men (67.5%)” (Clark, 2015, p. 556). According to Clark homeless women are those who are abused or domestic violence, and 50% of homeless veterans are under 51 years of age and approximately 40% African Americans following Hispanic population. Most of the homeless people are present with some kind of diseases. “More often than causing homelessness, however, health care system factors make it more difficult for poor and homeless individuals to obtain health care and to prevent or resolve health problems” (Clark, 2015, p. 567).…
Every once in awhile a person may find himself walking down the street, strutting his stuff. Then he might hear a couple of chords badly put together, poorly strummed, and a voice howling to the wind like a lost puppy in the night. This is probably being done by one of many kids who have left home and decided that it has become too much of a hassle to live in the confines of society. Only to leave home, work, and studies to play their guitar on the side of the street for the one thing they said they despised from the beginning, money. The clear solution is this, hire musicians to teach the howling puppies how to make music correctly.…
B. Women who are homeless during pregnancy usually do not have access to prenatal care, are often undernourished, and are often substance abusers – all of which leads to low birth weight babies with neurobehavioral problems predisposing them to lower academic achievement and behavioral issues at higher rates than children who are not homeless.…
Homelessness is one of the biggest issues that people face in many counties. The United States faces many homelessness issues. Homelessness issues create many social, economical and security problems which should be dealt with very seriously by the government and the society as well to ensure the well being of all people in the society. Homeless issues differ from a city to another based on the typist of people and opportunities of each city. But let’s face it, what are the major causes of being homeless? There are many causes that could make the normal person living turned into homeless and that based on some causes such as: lack of education, work opportunities, mental, physical problems and social responsibilities.…
References: Cynthia J. Bogard, J. Jeff McConnell, Naomi Gerstel, Michael Schwartz. (Mar., 1999), Homeless Mothers and Depression: Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 40, No. 1 pp. 46-62 Retrieved August 20, 2010, from the American Sociological Association.…
food is the most important thing to survive, but for homeless, it takes miracles to find food even for a day. some people got food for begging on the street or by food from the money they receive, others find food in unfortunate places; trashcan, or picking it from the road or eat others leftovers. Even if there are chances of getting food from, some also starve or even lead to death. Because of food being so hard to find, 57% homeless spend a day of being starved for not receiving food on the regular it affects human conditions. they become sick easily. Once homeless get’s sick, its not easy to get back on track because they do not have anyone to take care of them. while the population of the homeless increase, the death rate of them increase as well(hungry and homelessness) Every homeless population is increasing 3.5 million experience homelessness in a year.…
Homelessness is a growing social injustice in the United States. The degradation that these people face every day is terrifying. It is a crisis that we too often ignore, hoping it will restore itself. That assumption delivers a widespread lack of understanding about the facts that lead to homelessness. Homelessness exists as a problem that we should acknowledge and treat.…
Today the typical homeless family head-of-household is a young, single woman without a high school diploma or substantial work experience. There is a 50 percent chance that she is currently pregnant. She has most likely experienced substance abuse and is probably the victim of domestic violence and perhaps has lived in foster care as a…
Homeless women experience greater rates of miscarriages, baby death rate, perhaps due to lack of satisfactory prenatal care for their babies. Homeless families experience even more life stress than other families, including increased distraction at work, school, family interactions, and relationships.…
Deborah, Finfgeld-Connett (461) investigation shows that 3.5 mil- lion Americans experience homelessness per year. Of this group, 17% are single women, and 30% are families with children (National Coalition for the Homeless [NCH], 2008b). The research was conducted by using Meta-synthesis method to emphasize number of women to spend life is street are increasingly increasing due to the “domestic violence.” “Unprotected sex and forced sex” are some of the few reason to why women are leaving their home to settle on the street. Rather than treating this nice human unmannerly we should blow our head to respect for who they are, for they are the one who are creator of we all. We are impossible to born without them.…
Today, families make up the most rapidly growing segment of the homeless population. The majority of these families are led by single mothers who are also plagued with mental health and/or substance use problems coupled with domestic violence, which significantly impair their ability to break the homelessness cycle and to function as parents for their children. These structural factors have nothing to do with personal characteristics or disabilities of homeless people (Goodman, 1991). Many…
Homelessness is a pressing issue throughout the entire world. It affects people of all ages, genders, and races. The official definition from Google of homeless is “(of a person) without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets.” People who are homeless usually do not choose their homelessness. In fact, many people are pushed into this status due to many different reasons, such as gentrification or just difficulty finding a job. Walking down the Market Street of San Francisco, a bustling city, one would find many homeless begging, walking, or chatting with other homeless. They each have their own story behind their homelessness, and their own hardships. Women, in particular, have different needs and sufferings; they are more prone…