The Effects of Homelessness on Children in the US

The Effects of Homelessness on Children in the US

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Hart-Shegos, Ellen “Homelessness and its Effects on Children” A sixteen page Report prepared for the Family Housing Fund Hart-Shegos and Associates, Inc. December,1999 www.fhfund.org/_dnld/reports/SupportiveChildren.

“Homelessness and its Effects on Children” by Ellen Hart-Shegos, is a sixteen page report on the many effects that being homeless can have on children. This report covers the effects of homelessness on early childhood development, all the way from pregnancy to school aged children. Some of these effects include developmental delays and lack of pre-education resources. It also goes over ...

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M. Salamom, and Janice M. Molnar research and discuss issues created by homelessness in the book “Homeless Children and Youth: A new American Dilemma”. This book is based on reports customized for the national conference “Homeless Children and Youth: Coping with a National Tragedy”. The first part of the book discusses relevancy between poverty and being homeless. The second part of the book reviews more political topics such as, how our economy effect homelessness and our government systems don’t always work. The topics of how our economy and welfare systems increase the harshness of becoming and being homeless will enable me to get to the point of the consequences of being homeless and why it is hard for homeless people to get back on their feet.

American Psychological Association (APA) Office on Socioeconomics Status (SES) “Effects of Poverty, Hunger, and Homelessness on Children and Youth” September 2009 www.apa.org/pi/families/poverty.aspx

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Added: 3/6/2011 05:31:42 PM
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