From home to street: Understanding young people's transitions into homelessness

Article Abstract:

Explanations are provided by participants for becoming homeless and how they understand their experiences drawing on life history interviews conducted with 50 homeless youth in Los Angles. Even though participants' narratives reveal that abuse and neglect play central role in their decisions to leave home, many maintain a sense of agency in the recounting of how they became homeless.

Causes of

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Young people, drug use and family conflict: Pathways into homelessness

Article Abstract:

Young people who experience homelessness, in Australia and in other western contexts are widely perceived to use and abuse alcohol and drugs. In a study exploring homeless young people, reasons for leaving home, the relationship between young people's drug use and their pathways into homelessness are examined.

Australia

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Predictors of social network composition among homeless and runaway adolescents

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Social network characteristics of 428 homelessand runaway adolescents from small-to-moderate sized cities in four midwestern states are examined. Results showed the networks are considerably heterogeneous, comprised of relationships from home and the street as well as family and non-related adults.

Evaluation, Social networks, Runaways

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