homeless only makes her more vulnerable. But women are not the only ones that suffer from homelessness.Children are very prone to homelessness. More than 20% of the children of our generation are likely to live on the streets for a period of time. Family fights are the most common reason but there are others, that really have no choice, but to leave home and start a new life on the street which is not likely to have a happy ending. Children are very easily lured in to doing inappropriate things. The street-wise people are waiting with their claws sharpened to get holed of innocent children to domineer over. And since the children have no one to reach to out there cling to them and almost always get hurt. There are thrown in the deep end with no life raft. They become prostitutes, dealers, and drug or alcohol abusers. Ofcourse there are children that live on the streets with their family, so the elders do what ever is possible in order for their kids to grow up as normal as they can be. They live in shelters and go to school every morning while the parents go of in search of a job-if they don’t have one- and as the evening falls they meet up again and spend the remaining hours as a family. Another type of homeless people-who have suffered a recent surveys of homeless adults report that veterans appear to lot and don’t deserve to be in this position- are the veterans. Several compose a substantial part of homeless population. Their presence among homeless populations contradicts popular notions about military service, since the military is perceived as a setting where physically and mentally fit adolescent males mature into men (Richard D. Bingham et al. 65). Also the military is surpose to provide long-term economic advantages, enchanced by earned entitlements such as medical care, housing loans and pensions. Several studies have indicated that 2% of the total population of veterans has actually been privileged with these s...
