Jessica Petty 12/02/14 English 1/Carmichael Homelessness: Adolescents to Mid-Twenties Homelessness is one of the leading causes of death and mental illness in the United States. The age old concept of young people “aging out” of the foster care system is still relevant, however, not the only issue regarding the subject. Of those who study homelessness amongst teens, many would say that it comes down to the personal circumstances following the individual. Fifty-eight percent of adolescents (sixteen to eighteen years of age) in the United States are homeless (www.nationalhomeless.org). Legislation aimed to “prevent” homelessness and aid those affected by it effect adult homelessness, those from the ages of eighteen to twenty-five
For example, in 2012 more than 40% were not in education, employment or training. 68% of homelessness organisations said there was not enough youth-specific emergency accommodation, while 43% of local authorities reported placing young people in unsuitable B&B accommodation, as well as 6 in 10 homelessness organisations being unable to support a young person due to limited capacity. Homelessness is not only a housing problem. There are lots of reasons why a young person could become homeless. More than half of young people become homeless because of a relationship breakdown, mainly with their parents.
Most of the children that were removed did not receive a proper education, resulting in lower levels of employment in todays society. Also, many of the removed children experienced some form of abuse, which has resulted in high levels of mental problems, such as depression, alcoholism and more, within aboriginal groups in Australian society. Over hundred years after all this happened, the stolen generation got apologies form the federal and state or territory governments. On February 13th, 2008, the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd offered a formal apology to indigenous peoples for the Stolen Generations. Since the stolen generation is an issue for Australia, the country had done a lot to help the people.
Underreporting occurs due to individuals being dishonest regarding their behavior, therefore causing an error in the research done. A possible solution to this limitation is focusing on observed behavior, and correlating the findings with the self-reporting behavior, therefore developing a conclusion that is more in-depth. Furthermore, Article 2 emphasized that other factors can influence self-labeling as a victim in relation to work-place bullying, not just anxiety and anger. In addition, discovering a moderation effect regarding negative acts of violence and self-labeling is hard to discover due to the psychological way an individual may experience an event. Lastly, Article 3 honed on the lack of variances of deviant behavior.
Personal safety for a website for young people Nowadays, young people from the age of 12 to 18 are constantly victims of different crimes from robbery to murder. A very common problem is cyber bulling or adults pretending to be teenagers and talking to younger girls online on different social websites. There has been a recent article on a young girl that was abducted from her house and was sexually molested by a 30 year old man who has been taking to her on a social website and pretended to be a 17 year old boy. This is because young people do not know or acknowledge the dangers of surfing the web, as they were not told or not educated about it. To prevent these parents should be more vigilant and monitor their children’s access to the web.
Years into the Intervention; Concerns of welfare cuts that have affected women and children in the process,the stoppage of the CDEP plan that created more the 7,500 jobs before the Intervention, the poor number of sexual offenders prosecuted, and a number of limitation communal rights. The Northern Territory Intervention measures sparked many criticism both domestically and internationally saying that the Aboriginal people a being discriminated by there Government due to the 1995 Racial Discrimination Act. The Australian Government was called upon the United Nations Treaty to redesign their measures in direct of the
The author describes experiences with vulnerable populations in her own life. Vulnerable Population Recent periodical discussing a vulnerable population The manuscript by Sanders, Schneiderman, Loken, Lankenau, and Bloom (2009) identifies gang youth as a vulnerable population. Sanders et al. (2009) discusses risk factors of being in a gang, examples of which are deprived socioeconomic backgrounds, living in communities with a long history of drug sales, crime, and gang activity. This gang youth are considered vulnerable as are 60 times more likely to be killed than the rest of the population.
Just like children abused by their parents that in fact grow up to be abusive themselves. Kass says that children of divorce “have had no successful models to imitate” (229) and in fact “enter into relationships guardedly and tentatively” (230). Children of divorce enter a relationship looking for red flags up front and when things get difficult they never had anything in which to compare their situation. “When the going gets tough, the tough gets going;”…LITERALLY! Divorce is tragic on many levels and all too often the impact on children is more then just the shock of their parents living in two different places.
YOUNG AND HOMELESS 2013 1 YOUNG AND HOMELESS 2013 CONTENTS Key findings 3 Introduction 5 How many young people are homeless? 7 Why are young people becoming homeless? 10 Who is becoming homeless? 13 Rough sleeping amongst young homeless people 16 Homelessness prevention 18 Support services available for young homeless people 23 Accommodation for young homeless people 26 Welfare reforms 30 Conclusions and recommendations 33 Appendix 36 PRODUCED BY Policy Team ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank the National Youth Reference Group, and our anonymous interviewees, for giving up their time to help with this report. We are also grateful to the following organisations for supporting our research and providing insights into youth homelessness in England: Centrepoint, St Basil’s, Roundabout and Depaul UK.
The truth about videogames Videogames are the most money makers among today’s society from all the other things including, some sports like, hockey, basketball, tennis and many others. What people don’t realize is that videogames are not only bad for their children, but they are also bad for the adults. Videogames not only influence kids for violence and aggressive behavior, but also for many social issues. A kid playing videogames for at least twenty hours is less likely to go to school and more likely insensitive to violence. Statistics have shown that the violence among young people is increasing every year.