Essay On Homelessness And Shelter

This paper investigates the perception of mothers on the effect of homelessness and shelter life on their relationships with their children. To fully comprehend how homelessness and shelter may affect relationships in families, it is necessary to survey the family ordeal on this issue and how mothers may represent their experience. According to the author, the nation’s homeless shelter began to be increasingly filled with families in the 1980s and 90s and there are a number of reasons for this upsurge; they are: federal cuts in housing programs, loss of privately own low income housing stock, failure of public assistance benefits to keep pace with inflation, increased rate of divorce and failure of courts to enforce child support orders.
It is obvious that life in the streets or shelter life …show more content…
This kind of friendship is healthier than that developed due to the hardship of their situation. A mother should be able to objectively discipline her child without being judged by outsiders and onlookers. A child will yet develop friendship without anyone to undermine his/her mother's authority. In fact, it can be asserted that a friendship developed under normal family conditions is healthier by far than that fostered by adverse living conditions in a shelter. Self expression is a fundamental part of family life, but that cannot be said to be true in a shelter. Life in a shelter is of course regimented to allow for peaceful and orderly co-existence. Therefore, I will refer to the so-called positive attributes obtained in the shelter as "pseudo-positive attributes". It is a fact that there will be suppression of emotions in the shelter in order not to be kicked out. Children and parents will generally be upset and scared. There will be that feeling of being a failure by the parents, and the same view is held by the children. It is therefore not surprising that when they quit shelter and