Support from the child care agencies ends at around 22. By then they are adults and no different than any one else, facing the same struggles.
Even people who have functional families cannot necessarily count on those families to help them in time of need. Just because a family has not been involved in the child protection system and their parents are functional it does not mean that they have a lot of resources. Yet most young people do not end up homeless, even if they came through the child protection system.
I am not saying that having a family to help you isnt good and useful, but it is not the main factor in causing homelessness.
Most of the people on the street are addicts, which is due to their poor choices. Many are also suffering from mental illnesses. The mental illnesses are sometimes aggravated by their own choices such as self medicating with drugs and alcohol, and lifestyle, and certainly made worse by a medical system that hands out pills to deal with mental illness instead of looking for holistic solutions, and provides so called counseling by useless social workers who have never fixed anyone's problems in their lives.
Some people are overwhelmed by life due to mental illness, low IQ, behavioural issues, and addiction and no amount of family or support services will save them.
As a side note, to emphasize my contempt for social workers. We have a dry out center in my city that they call a "Sobering Center". As the name suggests it is supposed to be for people trying to get off their latest drug and alcohol binge. You would think that people who refuse to even try might be kicked out, if only to remove the temptation of drugs and the example of negative behaviour from the others who are trying. But no. Recently the people in the sobering center realized that they could get a bigger high if they inserted meth up their ass. When the sobering center discovered this, their solution was to buy them lube so their stupid choices would not wreck their anus. That in a nutshell is what is wrong with the system.
That's a bit of a generalization. For example, many indigenous kids who have dysfunctional parents have functional grandmas or aunts and uncles, who raise them as their own and they can continue to rely on extended family.
Support from the child care agencies ends at around 22. By then they are adults and no different than any one else, facing the same struggles.
Even people who have functional families cannot necessarily count on those families to help them in time of need. Just because a family has not been involved in the child protection system and their parents are functional it does not mean that they have a lot of resources. Yet most young people do not end up homeless, even if they came through the child protection system.
I am not saying that having a family to help you isnt good and useful, but it is not the main factor in causing homelessness.
Most of the people on the street are addicts, which is due to their poor choices. Many are also suffering from mental illnesses. The mental illnesses are sometimes aggravated by their own choices such as self medicating with drugs and alcohol, and lifestyle, and certainly made worse by a medical system that hands out pills to deal with mental illness instead of looking for holistic solutions, and provides so called counseling by useless social workers who have never fixed anyone's problems in their lives.
Some people are overwhelmed by life due to mental illness, low IQ, behavioural issues, and addiction and no amount of family or support services will save them.
As a side note, to emphasize my contempt for social workers. We have a dry out center in my city that they call a "Sobering Center". As the name suggests it is supposed to be for people trying to get off their latest drug and alcohol binge. You would think that people who refuse to even try might be kicked out, if only to remove the temptation of drugs and the example of negative behaviour from the others who are trying. But no. Recently the people in the sobering center realized that they could get a bigger high if they inserted meth up their ass. When the sobering center discovered this, their solution was to buy them lube so their stupid choices would not wreck their anus. That in a nutshell is what is wrong with the system.
But without a support system. That's the point.
That's a bit of a generalization. For example, many indigenous kids who have dysfunctional parents have functional grandmas or aunts and uncles, who raise them as their own and they can continue to rely on extended family.