Nowhere to Grow: Homeless and Runaway Adolescents and Their Families (Social Institutions and Social Change Series)

ISBN: 0199988862

Author: Whitbeck, Les B.

Condition: New

This book comes out of a study of over 600 runaway and homeless adolescents and over 200 of their caretakers, who were from large to smaller cities in four midwestern states. It focuses on the family histories of these young people and on the developmental impact of early independence. Street social networks, subsistence strategies, sexuality, and street victimization are all considered in terms of their effect on adolescent behaviors and emotional well being. The authors have produced a poignant account of cumulative consequences for young people who had few good options at the outset, and have even fewer when they are on their own.