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Youth Homelessness
Youth homelessness is disturbingly common. Although the prevalence of Youth homelessness is difficult to measure, researchers estimate that about 5 to 7,7 percent of young people experience homelessness each year. The same factors that contribute to adult homelessness, suck as poverty, lack of affordable housing, low education levels, unenployment, mental health, and substance abuse, can lead to homelessness among youth. Beyong these factors, Youth homelessness is largely a reflection of family breakdown.
The majority of young people in the US grow up healthy and safe in their communities. Most of those of school age live with parents who provide for theis well-being, and they attend schools that prepare them for advanced education or vocational training, and ultimately, self-sufficiency. Many young peolpe also recieve assintance from their families during the transition to adulthood. During this period, young adults give their children an estimated $38,000, or about $2,200 a year, while they are between the ages of 18 and 34 to supplement wages, pay for college tuition, and assist with down payments on a house, among other types of financial help. Even with this assistance, the current move from adolescence to adulthood has become longer and increasingly complex.
For a vulnerable (or "at-risk") youth populatios, the transition to adulthood is further complicated by a number of challenges incluiding family conflict or abandonment nd obstacles to finding employment that provides adequate wages and health insurance. These young people may be prone to outcomes that have negative consequences for their future development as responsible, self-sufficient adults. Risk outcomes include teenage parenthood; homelessness, drug abuse, delinquency, physical and sexual abuse; and school dropout. Unemployment or abandoning school may be the single strongest indicator that the transition to adulthood has not been made successfully.
1. Do you think that young people in Spain really prefer to live at home with their parents for longer nowadays?
2. According to the text, wich are the young people who are most likely to experience homelessness?
3. Imagine that a friend has decided to leave home after arguing with his/her parents. Advise her/him not to do so, and give a reason.
4. Rewrite the following sentences as one sentences, using relative clause:
Young peolpe recieve assitance from their families. Young people cycle bertween attending school, living independently and staying with their families.
5. Fin two words in the text containing vowels or groups of vowels that are pronounced in the same way as ea in Healthy, ou in youth and ow in low. Underline the parto of the word that contains the sound.