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

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Summary: tatistical analysis witha human face
Review: An excellent work for anyone who works with troubled youth or just wants to learn more about the problems faced by teens on the streets. It focuses attention on the problems faced by children that leave them more at risk for running away, the factors that make it more likely for them to be victimized once on the streets, and what tools enable them to move on to a housed/jobbed future. The book does contain statistical analysis of the data they gathred in a multiple year study of homeless teens in small to medium sized midwestern cities, but is filled with lively writing accesible to the non-academic as well, topped off with sparkling and heartbreaking bon mots of life on the streets. A powerful work that looks at a little known face of homelessness, younger people in places where there aren't supposed to be any homeless. Quantitative Sociology with soul, statistical analysis with a human face.