The number of homeless families in the United States continues
to increase at an alarming rate. There is little doubt that
becoming homeless and living in shelters has had significant
effects on the lives of the children in these families. While many
empirical studies have documented the effects of homelessness on
one or another aspect of children's lives, "Moving To Nowhere"
looks at the experience of losing one's home and living in a
shelter from the perspective of the child. Children who are
homeless tell their own story. They speak of life in a shelter as
they have known it. It is through these stories that human service
professionals can come to see homelessness as the children
themselves see it and can learn what living in a shelter is
like.
Children who are homeless tell their own story. They describe
how they became homeless, why they think it happened to their
family, what their expectations and concerns were as they realized
they would be moving to a shelter, and what the shelter was like
when they arrived. They speak often of missing their old
neighborhoods, their friends, and their extended family. They
report their fears, their worries about their family's future, the
absence of money and resources, and, for some, the presence of
violence or substance abuse in their families. They repeatedly tell
of their embarrassment about being homeless; this profoundly colors
their relationships to friends, schoolmates, and teachers. And, in
each of their stories, these children provide clear and moving
examples of how they manage to survive on a day to day basis while
they wait for permanent housing. Health care professionals,
psychologists, and teachers, as well as students and the general
public, will find this work poignant and instructive.
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