1. Homelessness Among The Young
., although a small number of studies have examined the incidence of runaway behavior and the characteristics of the young people involved in it. ... Defining homelessness and runaway behavior and distinguishing between the two is important. ... The most reliable estimates, from Caton's point of view, of the size of the problem of runaway behavior comes from a nationwide study carried out by the Opinion Research Corporation in 1976, consisting of a telephone survey of a probability sample of 62,895 households, of which 13,942 included a youth between the ages of 10 and 17. This survey ...
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