The Campaign to End Child Homelessness states that over 1.6 million American children go to sleep without a home of their own each year. ... To help the homeless children in our society, people can begin to get more involved with developing programs and shelter homes specifically designed for children. ... In order to make sure all veterans have the same opportunity, citizens can determine the need in their own community. ... Citizens can not act on this issue alone. ... Citizens can protest and fight for what is right, but it is up to the government to act on these arguments....

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In many cases, these youth come from poor homes and unstable living situations. ... This insecurity can lead to maladaptive behaviors. ... Chaotic home environments can interfere with parenting behavior by undermining parents" confidence in their parenting and by eliciting negative parental moods. ... Here, the idea is that humans can only process a finite amount of stimulation. ... The onset of homelessness can be a major contributing factor in maternal depression. ...

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Why is it that juveniles are choosing lives on the street rather than in their homes? ... Running away can be viewed as a solution to a troubling context. ... Neglect and abuse contribute significantly to separations of youth from their homes. Running away from an abusive home seems to me to be a well developed coping mechanism. ... Those who had left home before the age of 13 reported greater residential instability. ...

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A serious injury or illness can lead to a loss of employment, and eventually a loss of their stable home environment. ... Living on the streets, can make managing health problems more complicated. It is hard for an individual to recover from an illness when they do not have a stable home environment. ... These tax credits can help off-set the cost of health insurance. ... Whether the primary contributing factor is from losing their home, or it is a condition made worse after losing their home, the homeless populations have significant disparities when compared to the non-homeless pop...

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The most vulnerable households, those with the lowest level of income and expenditure, are single parent homes with a female head of household in 94% of cases, or those made up of an old couple and bigger families. ... Spending in those homes with a higher educational level is three times that of households headed by someone who is illiterate or uneducated. ... Inequalities can now be seen only in reference to non- compulsory levels of education. ... In general, this implies that people change residence in order to study, something only families with a comfortable income can afford. ...

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In an important decision in 1968, the government passed legislation that permitted CPF savings to be used for home ownership. In its early years, the CPF served the purpose of home financing extremely well, while many workers used the savings accumulated in their CPF accounts to purchase their own homes. ... However, upon closer examination, it can be found out that the claim has apparent weakness. ... Meanwhile, we must also remember that CPF savings can be used for the initial down payment and monthly instalments. Hence, currently more than 80 per cent of new flat buyers pay for their housin...

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., 2013), the majority of this time is spent within their home. ... Poor quality housing has been linked to increased injury rates resulting in hospitalisation with an estimated one-third of global injuries occurring at home (Gillespie-Bennett et al., 2013). ... Although there is now overwhelming research that demonstrates the benefits of home insulation on occupants health, (Boston & Chapple, 2014; Gillespie-Bennett et al., 2013; Howden-Chapman et al., 2013; Keall et al., 2012), over 40% of New Zealanders live in either un/under-insulated homes (Boston & Chapple, 2014, p183). ... Families wi...

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The study on Udaipur showed that people tend to spend most of their money on the festivals [ CITATION Ban07 l 16393 ] which obviously has religious connections which can also imply people's devotion to their Gods. ... The poor don't save which could be because the banks are not very accessible but which also could be because saving at home is hard when you have to hide the money from your dominating son or spouse. ... Like there is lack of health facilities, unemployment allowance, social amenities by the government, good public education services, and almost no protection from abuse...

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Women were the ones who had a duty to look after the home and raise the children. ... The discourse within these inequalities will be discussed along with theoretical approaches that can be used to help women overcome this systematic inequality. ... " The women work long, enduring hours as live-in caregivers and/or nannies caring for other people's children and home. Many women receive minimum wage, which they seldom get to keep as they have to send their earnings back home to their families. ... Many are unable to speak their native language or practice their culture as they live i...

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Income can also affect school outcomes through enabling a child to participate in extracircular activities like lessons after class and special trips. ... Here single parents divide their time between work and home and consequently can devote less time to their children. Juvenile Delinquency Single parent home and child (2007), Juvenile delinquencies are criminal acts performed by children or juveniles. ... This can be physical, sexual and emotional abuse. ... However, the following can be recommended. ...

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These countries believe that to increase the wealth of their country they can put this premise to use by educating their people in order to increase the income level and all that comes with a higher level of income, such as higher quality of living, higher savings and higher investment levels. ... A final reason why educational discrimination against women hinders development is that women carry a disproportionate burden of the poverty and landlessness that permeates developing societies, any significant improvements in their role and status via education can have an important impact on b...

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First of all lack of education, lack of education leads to low level of education, this can affect many things like illiteracy, low level of jobs, less income, unplanned family, and short minded. ... They do not care about increasing family and population; they think that one more baby will go to work and bring some money to home. ... Due to this there are lots of germs and viral Bactria found in the air and people getting disease, not only children get ill but as well as adult also getting ill, for that reason the majority of death ratio is high in slum area and do not go to hospital they are...

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It is a result of this bridewealth tradition that the Bovine Mystique can be said to be an exclusively modern practice. ... It can be a difficult process to sell livestock as the Bovine Mystique is built up among the men so that there is abundant pride in owning many livestock and much respect is given to a man who is wealthy in livestock. ... The Bovine Mystique is under the endless attack and disapproval of women, who are mothers and wives, who hold valid claim to any other property or money sent home by the men who work away from home to take care of the household. ...

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This means that there is no one, friend or family, who can provide emergency shelter and there are no financial resources available to the individual or family with which to purchase shelter. ... These shelters take a variety of forms such as armories, schools, churches, government buildings, former firehouses, and can also include temporary vouchers that are provided by public and private agencies, even hotels, apartments, or boarding homes. ... The question is why doesn't this definition include persons who are staying with friends and family or who can afford to rent a hotel room on a ...

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Mr Smith is a widow, he is 64 owns his own home in Blaxland valued at $250 000, owns a car valued at $8000 and has personal possessions valued at $40 000 and has not worked in 4 years. 2. ... Fiona is 23, she is a single parent with two children aged 6 and 3; her ex-boyfriend has just kicked her out of his home. ... The NSW Department of Housing provides low-rent housing to people who can't afford their own home. ... Provided that people meet the eligibility requirements they can receive regular payments such as the Age Pension, the Disability Support Pension and so on. ... It is outstan...

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By suffering from depression, it can affect the workplace, home life and most importantly the children. Unfortunately, children can have an adverse effect growing up in an atmosphere filled with depression. ... She always came home upset and depressed and because being exposed at such an early stage allowed me to become vulnerable to depression. ... Due to all these difficulties in the work environment, it can sometimes leave the women jobless and forced to go on welfare suffering even more with depression. ... Women with depression can affect people all around such as their work environmen...

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While the housing market for high scale apartments and luxury homes continues to grow, millions of Americans are living in housing they cannot afford. ... Therefore, we can assume that the increase in land use restrictions has caused increased income inequality in the major urban areas and has created a barrier to increased productivity. ... This data shows the exact nature of the housing market, and how the prices of homes have increased drastically since new land use regulations have become implemented. ...

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Poverty can be defined in terms of income-based, consumption-based or multi-dimensional approaches to its measurement. ... Rector points out that 41% of households below the defined poverty line owned their home. This is relative to home ownership of 78% in the non-poor population. 63% of these were poor-elderly who may have acquired these homes during the previous four decades when they enjoyed degrees of prosperity. ... This often results in one parent being forced to stay at home, putting further strain on income. ...

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We can also relate this situation to the concept of Social Inequality, which is occurs when certain members of a given society gain amenities and rewards by doing nothing more than everybody else. ... Globalization has many positive aspects, but in this case it can be seen as the cause for the increase in urban slums and the rise of the violence within them. ... Urrea explains why these migrants are moving at such an alarming rate when he states, "Imagine how bad things must get to make you leave behind your family, your friends, your lovers; your home, as humble as it might be; your chu...

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Humanity can create the best possible world for future generation by implementing three main things: conserving the environment, working out of poverty, and taking control and helping prevent crimes. ... In fact, people can help saving the environment using different ways, particularly by conserving energy, water, and gas; recycling, nurturing the outdoors, and reducing the material consumption. ... Similarly, people at homes use skylights on ceilings to reduce the use of electric lights. ... Indeed, any person doesn't have to be a member of an environmental organization, yet can contrib...

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Economic inequality can be related to such social problems because if there is not much gap between poor people and rich people there would not be much tension building anger and frustration within them. ... This is because rich people can afford to pay for extra tuition fee while the poor are deprived from the basic educational financials (Jenck, 2002). ... However all these legislation and organizations had least effective because looking at the current scenario one can see that gender issue as a most prominent issue in nation. ... Attitudes toward gender equality can be affected by educat...

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Our government is not doing all that it can to combat our nation's homelessness. ... Right now our government is not doing all it can towards putting into place the necessary solutions to combat homelessness. ... Some even make up the "hidden homeless" (Kroloff, 1993), or people who are one crisis away from losing their homes for a variety of reasons, such as a sudden medial emergency or unforeseen health problems. ... It is also believed that "the distance between the middle and lower classes has begun to shrink dramatically; middle-class households now experience the problem as an i...

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This shows that, for example, immigrant children, above the poverty line, are more likely to participate in any out of home based care than children below the poverty line. ... For example, "center based programs can assist immigrant children in their adaptation to a sociocultural environment that might be different from the one at home, helping them to learn rules and norms of school settings, play cooperatively with diverse peers, and understand how to relate to teachers or other authority figures outside their families". ... Enrollment of their child in ECE programs can help them...

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This may be true for most of the countries whose gross domestic product makes them attain the status of developed societies, but in case of low-level income nations it is not entirely possible for the respective governments to pursue totally home grown policies. Such underdeveloped countries are plagued with the necessity of adhering to the dictates of the semi-globalized economy of the world and forces out side their control play a major factor in influencing policies at home. ... However, only time can cure such problems and no matter how hard a particular government works social change wil...

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This is due to people that used to live around sixty or seventy years and pass away because of the poorly advanced medical system to a medical system that can bring people back form death after they were gone for a minute or two. ... With more people, there needs to be more home, fuel to heat the homes, transportation to move the people, and the fuel to run that transportation. ... Right now the production of food is growing faster than the growth of the population, but how much longer can scientist make higher yielding crops. ...

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