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5 pages in length. With the 1980's nationwide estimates of total homeless population ranging "from 2-3 million for advocacy groups and social scientific estimates of 300,000-500,000" (Hewitt, 1996, p. 431), it is clear to see how there is much more to the notion of homelessness than merely a collection of social deviants. The writer provides insight and statistics to the homeless problem. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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society embraces this perspective instead of blames the individuals for being derelict, indigent or irresponsible. With the 1980s nationwide estimates of total homeless population ranging "from 2-3 million for
advocacy groups and social scientific estimates of 300,000-500,000" (Hewitt, 1996, p. 431), it is clear to see how there is much more to the notion of homelessness than merely a
collection of social deviants. More specifically, the Stewart B. McKinney Act defines being homeless as one who: "...Lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence and; and...has a
primary night time residency that is: (A) a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations...(B) an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended
to be institutionalized, or (C) a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings" (NCH, 2004).
Various reasons exist for homelessness, including corporate downsizing and cutbacks, mental illness, addiction, as well as a reflection of how spousal abuse has reached epidemic proportions;
escaping an abusive relationship is "one of the main causes" (Morris, 1998, p. 241) to which women attribute their homelessness. Families with children, who represent forty percent of the
growing masses of homeless people (NCH, 2004), are often the most victimized of all those having no place to call home. "These homeless families are portrayed as victims of
insensitive caseworkers and shelter staff, unscrupulous landlords, and inadequate safety-net programs" (Snyder, 2000, p. 440). Sleeping on the street and begging for handouts
is not a choice of those thrust into homelessness; rather, it is often the only option that faces millions of mentally ill individuals all across the country. Schizophrenia is
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