Childhood Homelessness
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Childhood Homelessness
Homeless children is a problem that we are facing today as an American society. It is not a problem that you have probably heard a lot about. But one out of every fifty children will be homeless at some point in their childhood. Besides physiological trauma that is puts on a child it also has physical repercussions to. For example living without running water or not knowing where their next meal is coming from will take a major toll on a Childs health. Sometimes children often will have it worse then adults especially not being able to take advantage of homeless shelters in fear of being put in foster care. This also becomes were there is a problem the children can't let themselves be seen as homeless so they must fly under the radar so this is a problem that almost is not even seen.
This has become a major problem because all of the help that the homeless receive is catered to adults. With this being said many states lack plans for childhood homelessness. Even the states that do have total family accommodations they are so few and far between and don't reach very many families. With no government funding in most cases.
To address this problem you would first have to turn to the government. With out the governments help no one could ever even hope of reaching every child. The government would need to first step in and beef up all of the homeless shelters for them to accommodate children. Just not children with families but also children on their own which is a growing epidemic. They would also have to make it alright for children to come forward and ask for help without taking them away from their parents and siblings and sending them to foster care.
They need to not just add to the existing homeless shelters the government needs to build more because there will be more families coming forward looking for help if they know that they will be allowed to keep their children. Along with sheltering children come more of a...
Homeless children is a problem that we are facing today as an American society. It is not a problem that you have probably heard a lot about. But one out of every fifty children will be homeless at some point in their childhood. Besides physiological trauma that is puts on a child it also has physical repercussions to. For example living without running water or not knowing where their next meal is coming from will take a major toll on a Childs health. Sometimes children often will have it worse then adults especially not being able to take advantage of homeless shelters in fear of being put in foster care. This also becomes were there is a problem the children can't let themselves be seen as homeless so they must fly under the radar so this is a problem that almost is not even seen.
This has become a major problem because all of the help that the homeless receive is catered to adults. With this being said many states lack plans for childhood homelessness. Even the states that do have total family accommodations they are so few and far between and don't reach very many families. With no government funding in most cases.
To address this problem you would first have to turn to the government. With out the governments help no one could ever even hope of reaching every child. The government would need to first step in and beef up all of the homeless shelters for them to accommodate children. Just not children with families but also children on their own which is a growing epidemic. They would also have to make it alright for children to come forward and ask for help without taking them away from their parents and siblings and sending them to foster care.
They need to not just add to the existing homeless shelters the government needs to build more because there will be more families coming forward looking for help if they know that they will be allowed to keep their children. Along with sheltering children come more of a...