What About America's Homeless Children? This publication
provides insight into the causes and issues of child
homelessness, insight into legislation and policy, and provides
recommendations for the future to end child homelessness. Who
are the homeless children in America and what do we know about
them? How does their being homeless affect them and society in
general? What's being done to help them? What About America's
Homeless Children? takes a multifaceted look at the growing,
disturbing problem of children (including infants) in homeless
families and abandoned and runaway children in America. The
author examines the social factors that create homeless
situations of children and personal and educational problems
that can result from it. The health risks to this population,
including unsanitary living conditions, poor nutrition, physical
assault, and lack of access to health care are also explored.
Author Paul G. Shane brings the problems and effects of
homelessness to a personal level by presenting ethnogr