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Nowhere to Grow - Homeless and Runaway Adolescents and Their Families (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R617
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Nowhere to Grow - Homeless and Runaway Adolescents and Their Families (Paperback, New): Les B. Whitbeck

Nowhere to Grow - Homeless and Runaway Adolescents and Their Families (Paperback, New)

Les B. Whitbeck

Series: Social Institutions and Social Change Series

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Les B. Whitbeck and Dan R. Hoyt begin their report on street children in the Midwest with the statement, "If you live in or have visited even a medium-sized city recently, you have seen runaway and homeless young people. They congregate in certain downtown areas and hang out in malls during inclement weather . . . Mostly, they look like the other kids. . . . The difference is that they won't be going home tonight."

This book draws on a study of over six hundred runaway and homeless adolescents and over two hundred of their caretakers from cities in four Midwestern states. It focuses on the family histories of these young people and on the developmental impact of early independence. Street social networks, subsistence strategies, sexuality, and street victimization are all considered, as well as their effect on adolescent behaviors and emotional health.

Relying on interviews and data from survey research, and working in partnership with street outreach agencies, Whitbeck and Hoyt lead the reader through the various risk factors associated with precocious independence, beginning in the family and extending to external environments and behaviors. Nowhere to Grow is an emotional account of the cumulative consequences for young people with few good options at the outset and even fewer once they are on their own.

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Imprint: AldineTransaction
Country of origin: United States
Series: Social Institutions and Social Change Series
Release date: October 1999
First published: 1999
Authors: Les B. Whitbeck
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 229
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-202-30584-4
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Homelessness
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Child welfare
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Adolescents
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LSN: 0-202-30584-8
Barcode: 9780202305844

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