RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Teen homelessness and sexual orientation



CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION

Background of Study

Homelessness amidst juvenile persons is a grave and convoluted issue. On any granted evening, the National Runaway Switchboard approximates that there are roughly 1.3 million homeless, throwaway, and runaway youth dwelling unsupervised on the roads, in left behind structures, in covers, transitional lodgings, with associates, or with strangers. The difficulty of homeless youth should be examined as a communal fairness topic with its inherent origins founded in all types of oppression (including racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, ageism and able-bodism), victimization, scarcity and restricted get access to required and essential resources.

The intersection between sexy victimization and homeless youth has been well documented, both as an antecedent for running away and as an outcome of managing so. Sexual victimization appears prominently as an origin of homelessness in some investigations comprised inside this Digest while other ones show how sexy victimization becomes a current characteristic of life on the streets. Instead of finding the refuge they request, one time on the road, they are farther revealed to a multitude of dangers encompassing rape, sexy victimization, prostitution and financial sexy exploitation enterprises. Because they are disconnected and disenfranchised from community and need get access to schools, wellbeing care and other support schemes, numerous are compelled to turn to survival schemes encompassing engaging in survival sex or the dealing of sex to rendezvous rudimentary, substative desires, premier to expanded risk for HIV, STDs, redundant pregnancies and other personal wellbeing issues. To desensitize the agony of their reality on the roads, numerous homeless youth turn to matter abuse; enlist in self-harm, or suicide, all with possibly life intimidating consequences.

 

Statement of problem:

Teen homelessness and sexy orientation

 

Research question:

Does sexy orientation influence teen homelessness?

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER II

Literature Review

A form of sexy wellbeing practices of homeless adolescents was evolved by the first scribe and is recounted in minutia in another location (Rew, 2001). The form is a synthesis of clinical know-how and constructs from communal, cognitive, and behavioral theories. Population characteristics encompassing demographics, sexy annals, and heritage of homelessness have been discovered in preceding investigations to be affiliated with the sexy wellbeing practices of homeless youth (Durbin et al., 1993; Johnson, Aschkenasy, Herbers, & Gillenwater, 1996; Nagy, Adcock, & Nagy, 1994; Rotheram-Borus, Mahler, Koopman, & Langabeer, 1996; Sherman, 1992). Although these community characteristics are not amenable to intervention, other cognitive-perceptual and behavioral components might be. Knowledge of STI (Wren, Janz, Carovano, Zimmerman, & Washienko, 1997), future time viewpoint (Rothspan & Read, 1996), seen communal support (St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Allyene, & Brasfield, 1995), seen connectedness (Resnick et al., 1997), seen wellbeing rank (Yarcheski, Mahon, & Yarcheski, 1997), self-efficacy to use condoms (Hale & Trumbetta, 1996), and aims to use condoms (Jemmott & Jemmott, 1991; 1992) have all been affiliated with wellbeing practices in other adolescents and juvenile adults. Similarly, assertive connection (Bryan, Aiken, & West, 1996) has been recognised as a critical ability in negotiating the use of condoms with a colleague and is associated to the aim to use ...