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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 632175" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Maybe we should start a new thread discussing it. It's an interesting topic and until I started actually doing research, which wasn't available before the internet when I made two of my adult children leave, I only thought about the horror of it and how lonely and hungry and tired our kids must be. It's not like that if one actually chooses street life. There is a whole community out there of other homeless people who know the ropes and will take you in as part of their "family." They are others who don't want to live with societal norms in place and they learn how to live without having to follow society's values. Being a bit of a rebel myself, I can almost relate to the sentiment. What I can't relate to is breaking the law (I'm a real moral stickler about rules and laws) and preferring to rough it rather than have a predictable, safer lifestyle. Our adult kids, and others who live on the street chronically, have chosen not to follow ANY rules, including ones that shelters and other help organizations put into place and have decided it is better to be on their own. It seems to be very intertwined with drugs, at least in the United States. I guess in some places, where the young people are more concerned with world issues (let's face it, OUR young people don't think about things like the environment or poor people in other countries)...I think the commonality about the chronically homeless in the US is drug abuse. I could be wrong. That's why the topic should be open <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 632175, member: 1550"] Maybe we should start a new thread discussing it. It's an interesting topic and until I started actually doing research, which wasn't available before the internet when I made two of my adult children leave, I only thought about the horror of it and how lonely and hungry and tired our kids must be. It's not like that if one actually chooses street life. There is a whole community out there of other homeless people who know the ropes and will take you in as part of their "family." They are others who don't want to live with societal norms in place and they learn how to live without having to follow society's values. Being a bit of a rebel myself, I can almost relate to the sentiment. What I can't relate to is breaking the law (I'm a real moral stickler about rules and laws) and preferring to rough it rather than have a predictable, safer lifestyle. Our adult kids, and others who live on the street chronically, have chosen not to follow ANY rules, including ones that shelters and other help organizations put into place and have decided it is better to be on their own. It seems to be very intertwined with drugs, at least in the United States. I guess in some places, where the young people are more concerned with world issues (let's face it, OUR young people don't think about things like the environment or poor people in other countries)...I think the commonality about the chronically homeless in the US is drug abuse. I could be wrong. That's why the topic should be open :) [/QUOTE]
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