Children's Perspective
This youtube video is a trailer from the movie, My Own Four Walls, a documentary about what its like to be homeless.
Professional Perspective
- Kohn (1977) has found that lower-class parents look at their children's behavior with a focus on its immediate consequences and its external characteristics, whereas middle-class parents explore their children's motives and the attitudes expressed by their behavior.
- Parents who are experiencing "financial strain, depression and anxiety, marital discord and disrupted parenting due to their circumstances may be harsher with, less supportive of, and more detached from their children" (Ryan, Fauth, & Brooks-Gunn, 2006).
Parent's Perspective
It is difficult to get a parent's perspective on homelessness and poverty because these families often try to hide the fact that they are struggling. The parents of homeless children tend to be too proud to reach out for help and support from others.
Kohn, Melvin L.. Class and conformity: a study in values, with a reassessment, 1977. 2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. Print.
"My Own4 Walls trailer." <i>YouTube</i>. YouTube, 21 Mar. 2011. Web. 12 Apr. 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbSgzEQJXs8>.
Ryan, D., G. Fauth, and A. Brooks-Gunn. Handbook of youth prevention science. New York: Routledge, 2006. Print.
"My Own4 Walls trailer." <i>YouTube</i>. YouTube, 21 Mar. 2011. Web. 12 Apr. 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbSgzEQJXs8>.
Ryan, D., G. Fauth, and A. Brooks-Gunn. Handbook of youth prevention science. New York: Routledge, 2006. Print.