Julia

Homeless Kids and their Families
(1st Draft)

We should donate money to help the homeless families and their children. We should help them because many homeless kids drop out or get held back a year. We also need to get homeless families and children off the streets so they are not exposed to any kind of danger or violence on the street. Another reason to help them is to help all the homeless families and kids get off the streets and into safe clean homes and get their parents jobs.

Many people argue that homelessness is their own fault and when they give men money they use it wrong. However, most homeless people are kids or whole families.

Homeless kids drop out or get held back. The Seattle Eastside Family Examiners say that “If homeless children are able to make it to school the are more likely to be suspended, drop out or get held back a year.

We need to get homeless families and kids off the streets so they are not exposed to danger or violence on the streets. The Seattle Eastside Family Examiners also say that “Over half of the homeless children are elementary school age, while 42% are under six, and 25% of them have witnessed violence while living on the streets. This could lead the hids to violence and gangs later on in life for them.

We need to help all the homeless families and kids get off the streets and into safe clean homes and get their parents jobs. This could help the children have better lives. The poverty rate in CA has stayed stable at a little bit over 13% between 2002 and 2005 and dropped slightly to 12.2%.

In conclusion we should donate money to help homeless families and their kids because there are so many things we can do like hel prevent them from dropping out of school, and getting them off the streets so they are not exposed to danger or violence. Also because we need to help all the homeless families and their kids off the streets and into safe clean homes and get their parents jobs. So You should go out now and find out what you can do to help homeless families get off the streets!!