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Originally Broadcast March
10, 2004
NO WAY HOME
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ISSUE FURTHER:
WHO ARE HOMELESS YOUTH?
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WHO ARE HOMELESS YOUTH?
Young men: 64% of homeless youth (youth are under
25) are male. 91% of these men and 72% of females are
between the ages of 19 and 25. Studies have shown that
these youth generally leave home around the age of 15.
Heterosexual: 70% are heterosexual,
14.1% define themselves as bisexual, 4.6% as gay and
2.3% as lesbian and less than 1% as transgendered.
Poorly educated: Most men - 56% -have
grade 11 or less, 31% have grade 12 and 12% have university
or college or technical school. For women, 60% have
grade 11 or less, 33% have grade 12 and 6% have university,
college or technical school.
Of those who attended school and were assessed by counselors,
25.6% were diagnosed with anger management problems,
19.1% with ADD, 15.2% with hyperactivity and 4.5% with
dyslexia.
TROUBLED
YOUTH:
Of those who attended school
25.6% were diagnosed with anger management problems,
19.1% with ADD, 15.2% with hyperactivity and 4.5%
with dyslexia. |
Working class background: The fathers
of 45% of street youth work in primary, processing, construction
or transportation jobs, 21% working in clerical, sales
or service and 22% in managerial or professional occupations.
Mothers are a different matter. Only 7% work in primary,
processing, construction or transportation, while 40%
are in clerical, sales, or service, 17% in managerial
or professional and 29% as homemakers.
Parents’ education skews downward: for both fathers
and mothers, 30% have less than high school education.
For fathers, 17% have high school, 18% are university
graduates, and 10% are postgraduate. For mothers, 23%
have high school, 18% university and 8% post-graduate.
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