Summary: A Home Away From Homelessness

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This is a research among a "A home away from homelessness and how this organiztion serves homeless families in shelters, foster homes, motels, halfway houses, low income housing and transitional housing facilities that consists of boys and girls with ethnic backgrounds of being white (30%), latino (20%), african american (40%) and multiracial (10%) and within this study they saw that these children lived with at least one parent and many of these kids suffered from a variety of physical, emotional and developmental deficits" (Chapter 32, pg. 374).

Chapter 23 also mentions how, "Children that come from poor familes are often socially outcasted because of the situation they were born in or because of their parent's current situation (i.e. dress, taste, behavior) as well stigmatized because of their status in society" (Chapter 23, pg. 374-376).

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