Teen Homelessness

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Many young people under the age of 18 are facing the problems of Teen homelessness in our world today. In a report from WomenAide International “100 million homeless children are living in the streets around the world.” Some causes of teen homelessness involve bad living environments, lack of parental care, physical or emotional abuse or running away. Orphans and foster children are also living on the streets as well. With children and teens living in the street it is not a safe nor healthy environment for them along with the effects and outcomes.
One of the most common effects of teen homelessness is Human Trafficking. 20.9 million people including teens suffer the denial of freedom everyday. Polaris , a website defines human trafficking as “Human Trafficking is a form of modern day slavery.” No matter where you live, chances are it’s happening nearby. Homeless teens have to go through that terrifying danger. In the United States, as many as 20,000 kids are forced into prostitution by human trafficking networks every year. There are many different types of human trafficking such as forced labor, sex trafficking, and debt bondage. Teens going through this suffer a lot but …show more content…

There was a survey run by scientist in 2013 to test the percentage of 8th, 10th, and 12th graders have took drugs. Out of 50,000 teens from each grade 8th grade was 13% 10th grade was 30% and 12th grade was 40%. Teenage lives can be at danger when it comes to drugs and alcohol because they build an addiction and can’t break it. As said in this article, more than half of teenagers have tried alcohol. Teenagers could attend programs such as the Gateway Foundation. The Gateway Foundation helps teenagers destroy their addiction by doing educational groups or individual therapy. They provide instructions and is very easy to get any type of teen to destroy their addiction towards drugs and alcohol

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