Homeless Young People On The Street - 2379 Words

Literature review Homeless young people on the street are a vulnerable group and it becomes a major social issue more often. It is imagined many causations to this problem, but two principal factors are family conflict and drug abuse (Mallett et al., 2005). Martijn and Sharpe (2006) say that young people usually leave home for having frequently conflicts with parents or having a childhood trauma (as cited in Mayock et al., 2010). The family with the instable housing situation, such as violence and sexual abuse, may force young people to leave home believed by Baron (2003) and Gaetz (2004) (as cited in Mayock et al., 2010). However, normal family conflicts without any violence are also considered as a primary factor to lead young people†¦show more content†¦Homeless young people remain constantly taking drugs after they leave home, and they take every kind of drugs more frequently than their peers do studied by Cohen and his workmates (1988) (as cited in Mallett et al., 2005). Hagen and McCart hy (1997) believe many crimes emerge on the street conducted by navy homeless young people as well, this â€Å"problem† behavior is somewhat trained with their peers by life experience (Rose et al., 2011). Ennett (1999) explains that the reason for that problem is peers on the street are one part of the social network of the homeless young people, which provides emotional support (as cited in Rose et al., 2011). Furthermore, homeless young people have less connection to family, classmates and the neighborhood (Rose et al., 2011), which are essential to build one’s character. Despite of drugs, survival sex and lack of hygiene knowledge are major causes of homeless young people’s bad health condition (Ensign, 2005). Some researches indicate that homeless people with physical or mental health problem would like to go to a healthcare center as their first access after being homeless, however, most alcoholics refuse to ask help from family or friends (Gibbon et al., 2007). Death of homeless young people is usually caused by drug abuse, infectious disease and HIV/AIDS, even in some