What About America''s Homeless Children? - Hide and Seek

The increasing and disturbing problem of homeless children in the United States is the focus of this book.

Paul G Shane considers the social factors that can create homeless situations for children, and examines the personal and educational problems that can result from their homelessness. The health risks to this population - such as unsanitary living conditions, poor nutrition, physical assault and lack of access to health care - are also explored. Ethnographic case studies of homeless youth are presented, and the book concludes with recommendations for policies and programmes designed to ease the problem.

List of contents

PART ONE: FACTUAL AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
Homeless Children
Who Are They?
Social and Educational Issues
Health Issues
Social Context of Homelessness
PART TWO: THE PERSONAL DIMENSION
Unaccompanied Children
Families
Babies
Survivors
Through the Cameräs Lens
PART THREE: RESPONSES
Programs for Unaccompanied Youth and Families
Societal Responses to Homelessness
PART FOUR: WHERE TO FROM HERE?
Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: P. Shane, Paul G Shane, Paul G. Shane
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.10.1996
• EAN: 9780803949836
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-4983-6
• No. of pages: 261
• Series: Sage Sourcebooks for the Human; Sage Sourcebooks for the Human; SAGE Sourcebooks for the Human Services
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education