UK Family Problems Force Youths Onto Streets.

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The article mentioned about family problems that causes young people from homeless. It was found that almost half of 3000 people aged below 25 were homeless due to family problems like physical or other abuse and martial breakdown from parents. The problems were highlighted in three provincial areas – Lincolnshire, Crawley and Horsham in West Sussex and South Yorkshire between November 1996 and October 1997 by The Network, a partnership with the homeless charity Shelter and Midland Bank. Chris Holmes, the director of Shelter said the young people chose to be homeless due to the family breakdown and violence faced by them.

Symbolic Interaction can be applied in this article. Ernest Burgees viewed the family as “ a unity of interacting personalities” (Burgees 1926), it meant by how the roles and selves of family are shaped and personalities are affected to other personalities. According to Hochschild ( 1989), interactionists emphasize on role making, role definition, role negotiation, and role identity within a family. This includes how the roles of family member, parenting, which leads to divorces, births or deaths. Referring to the article, the personalities from the parents, for example, to abuse their children can lead to running away from home. Cross-cultural explores how family relation are shaped, good or bad, and communication between family interaction and identity negotiation.

In my opinion, family should take good care of their children. Without good parenting, the young people may result in homeless. This can weakens the social solidarity between parents. They might mix with other social identity resulted in drug abuse, or even committing crimes. As a result, it could bring trouble to the society, the country's reputation will become bad when there's many homeless people on the street. When they are homeless, they wouldn't have enough money for their needs. They became poor, they commit crimes to steal money.