Homeless Children in America To be homeless is to not have a home or a permanent place of residence. Nationwide‚ there is estimated to be 3.5 million people that are homeless‚ and roughly 1.35 million of them are children. It is shown that homeless rates‚ which are the number of sheltered beds in a city divided by the cities population‚ have tripled since the 1980 ’s (National Coalition for Homeless‚ 2002). Worldwide‚ it is estimated that 100 million children live and work on the streets. Homeless
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do street children exist? That is the question playing in my mind. Who is to be blame for this? What’s the effect of this to the society we’re living? Many factors and aspects could be the reason of their existence. “Street children is a word which can be used with different kinds of children. They can be children who work on the streets by doing errands or selling items. Street children may spend a lot of time in the streets‚ but sleep at home. They can also live permanently on the streets with
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of homelessness on children can be crippling. Learning disabilities are another effect that homeless children face. In fact‚ “homeless children are twice as likely to have a learning disability‚ than children in stable homes.” (“Faces of Homelessness”) These disabilities begin at birth‚ primarily due to poor health conditions and lack of special care‚ during the mother’s pregnancy or their poor nutrition after birth and during their early years. While‚ homelessness puts children of every age range
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TMA01 Sociology City Road PG1 Drawing on what you have learned about City Road‚ outline some of the inequalities on a street that you know. The streets of our cities often tell us more about our society than we expect‚ they show how people and objects interact with each other in order to make a community. In this assignment I am going to look at similarities and differences between the inequalities of city road in Cardiff and the Lisburn Road in Belfast. Inequalities are the social resources
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They are criticized for their living conditions‚ but are homeless people at fault for their situation? “Saving the Dreams of Homeless Kids” (Las Vegas Sun‚ January 15‚ 2016) by Delen Goldberg and Ian Whitaker and “Some People Choose to Be Homeless” (Creators.com‚ August 18‚ 2015) by Debra Saunders both present the issue of people who lack a home. Golberg and Whitaker discuss the situation of two kids who are either homeless or in danger of becoming homeless and the actions people are doing to help
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EDFD 121 Children in the Streets: Socialization and Formation of the Self in Rapidly Urbanizing Contexts Filipinos are family-oriented. This seems to be a truth by convention and if this is true‚ it would not be surprising if it would be said that family is one of the primary – if not the most – influential agency that affects one’s socialization‚ especially children’s. Parents or surrogates are the ones that open children’s mind to the socially constructed realms of life. The society at
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The code of the streets By Elijah Anderson The code of the streets sets its settings in the inner city black communities‚ and describe the people in those communities-what type of situations they are under‚ and how that affects their lives by forming a particular way of thinking and behaving. In the ghetto inner city‚ people with physical strength run the streets. In these streets‚ police are often not provided‚ and in fact are avoided by them. This causes an increase in violence and
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The Code of the Streets IN THIS ESSAY IN URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY A SOCIAL SCIENTIST TAKES US INSIDE A WORLD MOST OF US ONLY GLIMPSE IN GRISLY HEADLINES—"TEEN KILLED IN DRIVE BY SHOOTING"—TO SHOW US HOW A DESPERATE SEARCH FOR RESPECT GOVERNS SOCIAL RELATIONS AMONG MANY AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUNG MEN By Elijah Anderson Of all the problems besetting the poor inner-city black community‚ none is more pressing than that of interpersonal violence and aggression. It wreaks havoc daily with the lives of community
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GOALS What brought them? For a lot of the respondents‚ both those who had migrated and those who hadn’t‚ street vending seemed to be the only job that was available to do. There were no other options. Street vending doesn’t require one to learn a trade to be able to start‚ and depending on what one wants to sell‚ it required very little capital to start‚ on a large option of streets. Street vending is also a quick way to make earnings and bettering themselves. It offers prospects for acquiring
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Code of the Street INTRODUCTION The introduction chapter first explains the different types of neighborhoods that the city of Philadelphia has and each of the risks that go along with each neighborhood. Some of the neighborhoods are predominantly white‚ some are racially mixed‚ and some are predominately black. In the white-middle class neighborhoods‚ the neighborhood farthest away from the core downtown area‚ there is little crime and upscale restaurants and stores. In the racially mixed neighborhood
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