Argumentative Essay On Homeless Women

Imagine living a life with no water, no food, no shelter, and wearing the same old clothes over and over again for the rest of your life. Suffering those hot summer days’ heat, hurricanes, storms, and just awful weather throughout the year. Seeing people walk by past by you, not noticing you are there but they do. Begging for food when you are hungry but people do not give anything, the only thing you get is judgments. All these things homelessness go through will be something that society will never understand because they are not the ones going through tough life situations. Homelessness circumstances will ever change in our society today if you do not do something about it to support them. About 1.56 million people, or about 0.5% of

The impact of divorce, battering, and other family disruptions in combination with economic insecurity and primary responsibility for their children lead many women towards homelessness. It is believed that half of all homeless women have been a victim of some form of domestic violence, based on self-reporting and observations of various programs staffers. (National Research Council, 1996). However, the numbers of homeless domestic violence victims may be underestimated because some victims are reluctant to self-report. Homeless women seldom view their abuse as their primary problem and may not reveal that they are victims. In some cases, if a woman reports that she is a victim of domestic violence, a homeless shelter may refuse to accept her for security reasons. Most shelters do not offer services to women unless they conform to the criteria that distinctly makes them part of the particular group the shelter program targets. Programs can be specifically geared towards battered, homeless women and have been a great success in dealing with the emotions of the situation.

For a start, as my social and human capital assignment, I will be focusing on homelessness and the associations it entails. Through exploratory research, via peer reviewed journal articles and one in-person interview, I have collected data to see what social disparities and/or oppression the homeless population face from day-to-day. Furthermore, I had the pleasure of conducting my interview with a 62-year-old chronically homeless male originally from Nigeria. The location of the interview took place at a homeless shelter in Dallas, TX. Through the duration of this assignment, my participating interviewee will be identified as Bingo for confidentiality purposes. Equally important, as the interviewer – I was sensitive to the participant’s responses

Homelessness is an enormous social issue in the United States. Unfortunately, the rate of homelessness in the United States is high, with roughly 549,928 people sleeping on the streets every night. Although the causes of homelessness are widely varied, experiencing episodes of homelessness is an extremely stressful situation which can have physical, psychological, mental, and emotional tolls on an individual. Defining homelessness as individuals not living in traditional housing, such as living in tents or sleeping on the street, homelessness is very dangerous, and the homeless population is the most vulnerable demographic in the country. The situation for women and girls experiencing homelessness, however, is even worse. Homeless women are highly susceptible to violence from sexual predators because of their high level of vulnerability, and their social status in society, combined with the high stress of homelessness places them at an alarmingly high rate of sexual victimization. A study sampling 974 homeless women in Los Angeles found that thirteen percent of the women interviewed reported being raped once in the past year, and half of them reported being raped twice in the past year. In order to reduce the occurrence of sexual and physical violence towards women experiencing homelessness, cities should implement strategies specifically targeting homeless women, helping them temporarily get off the street, and eliminating barriers to homeless women reporting their

Although most American citizens do not typically notice government programs in their daily lives, implemented policies have major effects on American citizens. It is estimated that around 1.35 million children suffer from homelessness due to their families living on the streets (Crook). With this massive housing conundrum, the United States government should increase funding for the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. Increased funding would decrease homelessness by lowering the crime rate, educating students, and improving American living conditions.

The word homeless typically does not bring to mind images of children and you but in reality, more than 100,000 and more children an experiencing homelessness have been identified by U.S. public schools every year since the 2015-16 school year. There so many homeless people living in the street in this world but for so many homeless student and school is the only stable place in their life. Despite being homeless, students spend as much time in class and on school topics as other non-homeless students. Many students need some kind of special care and attention to at least achieve the success in learning. Knowing every basic rules of working with such student, even the teacher can improve their chance to learn from the student. Being homeless and have to attended school could be hard because some kids would have something and the homeless won’t have something. Seeing some student homeless on the street it give other people bad feelings. Imagine student feeling lost and not even knowing what to do or where to sleep. There’s many problems that cause homelessness and most of that is cause by housing is unaffordable to the poor people and the other causes are include physical illness, mental illness

As known the increase of homelessness in America is increasing. Not only that, mental illness within the homeless communities and the homeless in general is around one-third of the percentage of the homeless population. The mental illnesses one can have, has severe consequences. People who are homeless and have a mental illness are not able to carry out daily routines. They may also have trouble building or maintaining stable relationships. The mental illness causes people to misunderstand others guidance which causes them to react mentally. This results in pushing away anyone that cares for them; including family, friends, or even care givers. Mental health could result in poor physical health, especially for homeless people. The mental illness can cause people to neglect necessary precautions against disease. When improper hygiene is added to this, respiratory problems, skin disease, and exposer to tuberculosis or HIV can occur. Half of the homeless who are mentally ill, abuse

For a start, as my social and human capital assignment, I will be focusing on homelessness and the associations it entails. Through exploratory research, via peer reviewed journal articles and one in-person interview, I have collected data to see what social disparities and/or oppression the homeless population face from day-to-day. Furthermore, I had the pleasure of conducting my interview with a 62 year old chronically homeless male originally from Nigeria. The location of the interview took place at a homeless shelter in Dallas, TX. Through the duration of this assignment, my participating interviewee will be identified as Bingo for confidentiality purposes. Equally important, as the interviewer – I was sensitive to the participant’s responses

Homelessness is multifactorial and complex, complicated by social, political and structural factors. These factors provides some of the reasons why many people becomes homeless and whether they remained in their circumstance. However the issues that women faces in their life that lead them to become homeless is often severe, many are survival of daily struggles both in the past and present .Homeless women endure trauma victimisation and oppressions, as well as pain and loss from abusive relationship perpetuated by husband and spouse. Most research surrounding homeless women conducted in the U.K and USA, highlighted the extraordinarily high levels of abuse and victimization as key factors leading to women becoming homelessness (Watson,

Ponce, Lawless, & Rowe (2014) explore the phenomenon of homeless women, with specific attention paid to the occurrences of mental health disorders and intimate partner violence. The authors also provide a framework for gender-specific responses toward homelessness. Since homelessness is not a gender specific issue, it is important to look at intervention and data about each subset of the homeless population. As it relates to the Orlando area, ANCHOR provides services to both men and women. The framework offered by Ponce, Lawless, & Rowe (2014) allows for a more tailored approach to gender specific issues surrounding homelessness and mental health issues.

According to the National Coalition for the homeless, when a woman decides to leave an abusive relationship she often has nowhere to go and with the lack of affordable housing and long waiting lists for assisted housing means that many women and their children are forced to choose between abuse at home and life on the streets (National Coalition for the homeless, 2009). Majority of these women are force to face these circumstances because their husband or partners were the beard winners in the homes and most them were stay at home moms, which may hinder them from finding a job because they may not be qualified or simply do not have the resources. These women often have poor credit records and employment histories because of the violence they have experienced. National Coalition for the homeless also stated that landlords often discriminate against victims if they have a protection order or any other indicator of domestic violence and if violence occurs in the home, landlords can evict their tenants, resulting in a victim becoming homeless because she was abused (National Coalition for the homeless,

In a report made by the End Homelessness organization, 578,424 people were counted homeless in one night in January 2014 (“National Alliance to End Homelessness”). It’s harsh to see people homeless in general, but especially around winter time, which is criminalizing homelessness needs to be done. Anyone can become homeless in an instant, and what is the scariest the most is that there's slight help out there for helping the homeless actually come out of their situation. Aspects of homelessness should be criminalized because it can be more beneficial to them as they learn to rely more on themselves instead of others, it is the first step to helping them get back on their feet, and will reduce the aggression they put out for others while performing these aspects of homelessness. It is often said that in order to eliminate homelessness, shelter needed to be provided by the government for the needy but that is not the answer.

You are a wealthy person sitting in your house, having a really good time, when all the sudden a storm comes. You lose all your money and your house. You don’t show up at your job, then you get fired. You are on the streets with some money in a tin can, asking people to help your family and you survive. No one notices you when you're out there in the cold under a box with one blanket. You don’t have a lot of clothing, money, or even someone to help you. Helping people is something that opens up my heart, so I wanted to research this topic because there are people that are out there that need homes, shelter, food, and water. For example, Hurricane Maria just happened and now a lot of people in Puerto Rico don’t have homes. People don’t need to suffer homelessness because of unpredictable weather conditions. When I was researching the topic, I was thinking about some questions. What is the average amount of homeless people in the world? What will happen if the population of homeless people increases? Out of all the thinking, my driving question was: How can I help people that need homes after a weather condition has destroyed it? Out of the research that I did, I found ways to help people that are homeless and how people are helping now with homelessness. I do think that we can help fight back homelessness. Together we are the I can generation where we lead a great community.

Women want to smell good and look good, that is what makes us feel beautiful. Each month we have to deal with the monthly struggle of getting our periods and that already does not make us feel good as it is. Now imagine being homeless and not having access to a clean shower and no access tampons or pads or even clean clothes. This must be overwhelmingly depressing for most woman. When these women are forced to think of ways to create their own tampons, they go to the extreme using items that might not be safe and this can cause major health issues, including infections and in some cases toxic shock syndrome. With 50,000 women living in the streets in the United States, plenty of organizations have stepped up to the plate and made millions of donations of tampons and pads to the homeless. The female homeless population grows each year and that means more tampons need to be donated. Hygiene products are not cheap and are not covered by government assistant programs. Famine hygiene products are a priority and should be considered a human right. Foundations like Free The Tampon believe that every bathrooms outside of home should freely have access to Feminine hygiene products. The organization is dedicated to providing education and resources that empower advocates to create change for women nationwide. (freethetampons.org) Other campaigns are focusing and fighting hard to exempt tampons from sales tax in the United States. While other places have already jumped into action and

For the week of November 13th, the reading that I reacted to most was the article from Upworthy about the woman who was homeless but ended up graduating from college. This article is a perfect example of someone starting at the bottom and ending up toward the top. She was homeless growing up and eventually entered foster care before she graduated from high school. She decided to apply to college, and even got in. She spent a few years there, but had to drop out. She ended up returning to college and finished her degree. She also created a nonprofit for homeless kids that want to or are attending college. I found her story inspiring because you don’t usually get to hear the success stories. Society tends to focus on all the negatives in the world, and what fun is that. I think that her story is definitely one that people would consider to be an exception, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t possible for kids like her to end up with the career and success that she has acquired. Her story should be told to kids going through what she went through so that they will think that they can accomplish anything. Instead, however, they are pretty much told that they won’t amount to anything. It’s no wonder that homeless and poor kids don’t try to improve their situations. It’s the way the media and society say they should behave. This week at my site, I worked with two kindergarten girls. The first girl had me play school with her and another volunteer. I ended up leaving that group to work