Essays on Homeless Children

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Introduction

For the purposes of this research paper, the homeless population living in Camden and Atlantic City in New Jersey have been studied. The specific age group of homeless people that has been selected are those individuals with ages between 18 and 21 years. The paper will explore the various health problems that homeless people of this age group are most likely to suffer from. A review of the available literature has been conducted in order to determine which prevention initiatives have so far proven to be most effective in addressing and resolving the identified ...

As the number of children who are homeless increases annually, the impact of the problem on children’s development becomes a concern that needs to be addressed effectively. The health and overall wellbeing of the children are at risk as homelessness affects their social, emotional, and psychological development. The paper presents an analysis of studies by various authors on the impact of homelessness on the psychological health of the children and the way forward. There is a high number of homeless children in the USA and it continues rising. According to Coker et al. (1446), 23% of the homeless ...

Homelessness is one of the very serious problems because it is constantly replenished the ranks of the homeless people today: they are troubled teens, graduates of boarding schools; migrant workers; veterans, people survived the crisis. The authors believe that homelessness leads to stress, mental disorders and substance abuse, especially alcohol, although this may be due to homelessness. Social exclusion is a strong negative factor, weighting personal and behavioral disorders in the homeless, especially for adverse childhood experiences. Studies devoted to homeless show the interest of the researchers to the resolution of the problem of homelessness and about possibility for ...

Importance of the Topic for the Early Childhood Education Field “Challenges Surrounding Parents and Children who are Homeless”

The significance of the larger topic Challenges Surrounding Parents and Children who are Homeless for The Early Childhood Education Field Homeless children are at great risk of different negative effects, such as poor well-being or negative social outcomes (Moore & McArthur, 2011). This paper deals with the topic of early childhood education. The main goal of this paper is to reveal the main questions regarding the issue of challenges that homeless children face in everyday life and how it can affect their education. In order to deal with this issue successfully, different sources of information were carefully examined and analyzed. ...

Introduction

Homelessness is a substantial and systemic problem, as it provides people with the fewest resources even less of a chance to better themselves and escape the cycle of poverty. Homeless youth, in particular, face particular problems, being offered substantially fewer chances to succeed compared to other youth of the same age who are not homeless. There are many reasons for youth to become homeless; in many cases, homeless children have homeless parents, or have been tied up in the system without a concrete family structure (e.g. orphans). One substantial phenomenon is the homeless LGBT child; despite the many social advances ...

How do children with different family economic factors, socioeconomic status, and challenges behave differently when faced with homelessness?

Records reveal that there are 1.5 million children or maybe more who suffer homelessness (nccp.org). Children who are brought up in poverty face extraordinary experiences that involve social challenges, critical stressors and healthcare issues. Most of them do not often behave differently, but they encounter day-to-day overpowering challenges, some of them are seriously affected. This paper is a discussion about the different implications on how children with different family economic factors, socioeconomic status, and challenges behave differently when faced with homelessness. Poverty of which results to being homeless is generally an urban occurrence, thus far children are living in ...

Conventionally, education has meant access to better personal and professional experiences. Through education students get knowledge and skills which, if used well, should make a difference in longer run. According to mainstream conceptualization of what makes a college student, she is one who is enrolled in a higher education institution, commutes to college and back home or simply lives on-campus. Interestingly, living on-campus – as part of a student's college life – could be literal. That is, given recent growing phenomenon an increasing number of students are homeless, students who do not live on campus (as in dorms, nearby housing or specific arrangements of housing ...

When I look back on my childhood, a warm aroma of protection surrounds it. I had parents and people who were there for me to meet me needs. There were people to comfort me when I was scared. I never felt alone. If I was sick I was taken to a doctor. Sometimes, lost in narrow corners of our own lives, we can forget that this is not the situation for everyone growing up in the world today. There are children in the world who do not have someone to look out for them. One in 45 children will experience homelessness ...

Thesis statement

THESIS STATEMENT: World over there has been a shift in the health problems that face the human populations. With advancements in the medical research, most infectious diseases are now treatable (Carter, 2007). Advancement in food technology has also seen a shift from the traditional foods to more refined foods. It has resulted in an increase of dietary associated conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity. Consumption of foods with high refined sugar levels has been proven to be the most significant cause of obesity(Brehm-Curtis, 2014).Children are exposed to beverages and snacks that have high sugar levels. This paper, therefore, ...

The growing number of homeless families over past few decades has captured people’s attention . Initially, it was considered to be a problem confined to single men or woman. More recently, we have seen it getting common with single women with children. Typically, a transitional housing is a one or two bedroom apartment complete with kitchen. They are usually in a group in 20 to 40 multi-unit complexes. They differ from other similar programs that “provide temporary shelter, such as emergency assistance and temporary rental assistance (TRA)”. The difference lies in the fact that it integrates services such as social support and ...

The problem the writer talks about it basically related to the homeless people living in South Florida. It is a big deal that a place like Florida, which is in town set and where people from all corners come to live for having a better life actually does not have much facility to prove the homeless people and has ranked 3rd among the states with most homeless population! The livesof the homeless people are becoming tougher day by day. The writer has put up the reasons why homelessness really takes place. The essay starts by defining homelessness as a stage where a person does ...

The American society has an estimated population of 1.5 million children in being homeless and lacking shelter, healthcare or education. These statistics are detrimental and shows that the government is failing in provision of services and thus undermining the liberties of the US citizens who lack housing. The HEARTS was established as an action plan towards addressing homelessness. The plan based its actions on six areas of the project development. These are housing, public policy, evaluation, services, education and collaboration with economic partners. The plan directs its efforts and resource base towards housing and serving the chronically most homeless ...

Compare and contrast

Different nations have different ways in which they approach the aspect of public welfare. The aspects of public welfare in Australia and United States of America (USA) have both similarities and differences as discussed below.

Firstly, both countries have similar approaches on the issue of homelessness. The issues of homelessness, who are responsible for it and the kind of policy responses towards it, are similar in both Australia and US. The issue has been an ongoing debate in the two nations as individual governments try coming into terms on how to develop a concrete solution. The US federal legislation has ...

In the last few years, there has been sharp reaction from the members of the public, human rights movements, and government agencies on whether lesbian and same-sex couples should be allowed to form their families by adopting children or not. This topic remains controversial in the contemporary society, despite the number of children adopted by lesbian and same-sex couples keeps on increasing. Researchers articulate that the number of children under custody and care of lesbian and same-sex couples stand at six to thirteen million globally. It is presumed that this number will increase significantly when other states allow lesbian ...

Literature Review

Literature review is the process of describing the relevant literature to a given topic or piece of work. It is beneficial because it gives the reader a glimpse of the existing, relevant theories and hypotheses including the methodologies useful in that field of work or topic. It makes use of secondary sources a representation that the research has no new information. In my literature review, I will discuss the different aspects of homelessness among blacks and ethnic minority groups in the UK. My method of searching for relevant sources include a wide search of various websites among them, governmental departments, shelter England, ...

Background information

According to the United Nations, homelessness has become “an increasing social and public health problem worldwide”. There are various states of homelessness. Absolute homelessness refers to “conditions of persons without physical shelter”. Relative homelessness refers to a state in which one has some form of physical shelter but the shelter does not meet the required health and safety standards. For instance, it has poor sanitation and access to water is limited or non-existent. Estimates reveal that over 100 million individuals are homeless worldwide. In the United States of America, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates that about ...