No Direction Home: Teens on TC streets
Wednesday 27 December
by LYDIA HOWEL
Pulse of the Twin Cities, MN
http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?s id=2906
The stories told by today's runaway and homeless teens all soundfamiliar to me. They tell of fleeing abusive, and, in many cases,addicted parents; being shoved out of their homes by poverty orhomophobia; feeling that they are simply not wanted.
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"We say children are the future--yet, they're the ones we strip of resources! Then, we go after them about crime!" Alex Nelson's quiet demeanor cracks. "What goes around comes around--even if you ignore it now."
by LYDIA HOWEL
Pulse of the Twin Cities, MN
http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?s
The stories told by today's runaway and homeless teens all soundfamiliar to me. They tell of fleeing abusive, and, in many cases,addicted parents; being shoved out of their homes by poverty orhomophobia; feeling that they are simply not wanted.
( Read more... )
"We say children are the future--yet, they're the ones we strip of resources! Then, we go after them about crime!" Alex Nelson's quiet demeanor cracks. "What goes around comes around--even if you ignore it now."
