Essay On Effects Of Homelessness

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Effects of Homelessness
Waking up without somewhere to sleep is nothing new for over a hundred million people in the U.S. Most people are homeless due to lack of access to health care and are made worse by harsh living conditions: sleeping outside, eating cheap starchy food, and being around unhealthy people (“Administrator” 1). Being homeless is very harsh and can impact your future. When you are homeless, you have less resources and a smaller chance of being successful when you grow up. Due to the lack of good education and poor hygiene, most grow up to be homeless and tend to have mental health problems. Homelessness is a chronic illness, and it is growing day by day. Homelessness is a huge problem not only in America but it affects people all around the world. Some people can become homeless in a matter of seconds. Homelessness is not always a choice nor do some see it coming. Homelessness tends to boil down into three main factors: poverty, unsafe living environment, and effects on youth. These three factors can make a huge difference in a person’s life; therefore, we need to put an end to homelessness. Poverty is the lack of enough income and resources to live adequately by community standards (“Allard” 1). Poverty is not just something that happens to a
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Most kids do not know what safe sex is and what it prevents. Ninety-five percent of homeless youth have engaged in sexual intercouse before they turned 18 (“Youth”4). Most are too poor to buy protection or they are too lazy to even care. Some use sex as a way to live. They make sex a way of a job to earn them money. Of the youth who partake in sex: Eighty-two trade for money, forty-eight trade for living or food, and twenty-two trade for contraband (“Youth”4). They are so hopeless and so uneducated they sell themselves just to eat and to live everyday. They find no wrong in it because it is what they grew up seeing and a way of helping