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To Be Young and Homeless

Implications of Homelessness for Children

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If asked to describe a “typical” homeless person, few people would think of a child living with a parent in a shelter for the homeless. Yet perhaps the most alarming change in the homeless population during the 1980s has been the dramatic rise in the number of homeless families with children.

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  1. American Psychological Association, 1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, DC, 20036, USA

    Andrea L. Solarz

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  1. Medical Research Institute of San Francisco, Institute of Epidemiology and Behavioral Medicine, Alcohol Research Group, 2000 Hearst Avenue, Berkeley, California, 94709, USA

    Marjorie J. Robertson Ph.D.

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and San Fernando Valley Program in Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 90024, USA

    Milton Greenblatt M.D.

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Olive View Medical Center, Sylmar, California, 91342-1495, USA

    Milton Greenblatt M.D.

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Solarz, A.L. (1992). To Be Young and Homeless. In: Robertson, M.J., Greenblatt, M. (eds) Homelessness. Topics in Social Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0679-3_22

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