Poverty

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studies homeless children aged 16 and under, somewhere 41,000 and 106,000 children are literally homeless at any given time” (36). Homeless meaning they live in shelters, churches, or public places with no permanent residence. “Between 39,000- 296,000 are precariously housed, meaning they live with either relatives or doubled up with friends” (38). Why are poor families with young children poor? It is believed that children are poor because their parents are poor. Child can only be reduced by attacking the multiple causes of family . “Children under the age of six with single mothers are much more likely to be poor than those living with two parents” (Kozol 52). Part of this problem is due to the proportion of women giving birth outside marriage has increased dramatically over the past three decades, and children born outside of marriage who grow up with single mothers are likely to be poor for most of their childhood. Research shows “61 percent of children who spend the first ...

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