The Challenges and Effects of Being Homelessness

Many people have addiction that leads to health problems such as drinking alcohol, sniffing, injecting heroin, gambling. Sometimes they need to share a dirty needle. 11% of them drink more than three times a week (Levinson 152). Malnutrition may cause their health problems. They tend to be hungry than children who have children because they do not have sufficient resources to buy food ("Influence on homeless children" 2). They sometimes go to the hotel and have to ask for the rest of the food there.

"Homeless may make a child sick." 2 Homeless has a very bad influence on the health and welfare of children. Homeless children are exposed to the health risks of poor people due to poverty of the environment and lifestyle habits, and less access to health care. Increased health risk combined with lack of health care often leads to serious disease increases that are not treated. Because mothers may be undergoing poverty, malnutrition, substance abuse, and inappropriate prenatal care, risk usually begins before children are born 3. Often suffering from anemia, it means that they need special care from the beginning

Homeless affects family lifestyle. Many people in China are faced with the task of becoming homeless. They must face many challenges, both physically and mentally. It affects the whole family from birth to death. Homeless also affects work and education. Homeless will have a big impact on their lives. Homeless influences people. In the United States, over 100 million people are homeless (Stearman 9). Indeed, from 600,000 to 760,000 people are homeless each evening (Hurley 31), 1.3 million people are homeless each year ("Influence on homeless children" 1). Unfortunately, homeless people are abandoned houses, forced to live on the street ... more content