What causes a person to become a beggar or homeless?

Question

Is true that many of them actually came from either a rich or mid-class family with alot of fun happy life during their childhood and suddenly something bad happens after they became adolocents that meke them lose everything they've own before.What could be the culprit?Is it true that sometimes when a begger or homeless people would eventually cry a tears out when they recall their sweet childhood memories and wondering why do they have to suffer a lot in the later years?What can we do to help them?Do they actually know anything that happens around the world and do they have their own point of view about the wars that break out in Iraq and Lebanon although they are just beggers living down the street of The Bronx?

Answer 1

Of course they have views about world affairs! but the majority of there time is taken up on basic survival. The welfare state takes care of women and children first so men are very low down on the housing list. Some have mental illnesses, some have addictions
But a lot have just fallen down on their luck, its said that most australians are two pay checks away from bankrupcy
If that happened to u and u had no family to fall back on, how would you cope?
Once they fall outside society, they are marginalized and its really really hard to crawl back from that

Answer 2

With every day pass, our country is getting into more and more trouble. The inflation, unemployment and falling value of dollar are the main concern for our Government but authorities are just sleeping, they don’t want to face the fact. Media is also involve in it, they are force to stop showing the real economic situation to the people. I start getting more concern about my future as well as my family after watching the response of our Government for the people that affected by hurricane Katrina.

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Answer 3

I was homeless for about 6 months, I didn't feel like anything was worth it and couldn't bring myself to kill myself. So I just stared walking around the city, that's pretty much all I did when I was homeless. Never cried or really even thought about my childhood just kept thinking of a way to kill myself that I could do.

I had a good childhood and my parents were middle class.

I knew things were going on in the world as I would read the newpapers front pages as I passed.

All in all there's really not alot you can do, be nice, don't be an asshat like alot of the people here.

Answer 4

Many people become homeless through no fault of their own.
A company that downsizes and lays people off are some times at fault.
The person can't find work. Is either over qualified or under qualified for the positions applied for. Employer won't hire because of either reason.
Person falls behind on house and car payments, the finance companies foreclose. End of house, end of car, Sorry, bub, you're on the street.

Answer 5

The underlying common denominator of risks of housing exclusion is poverty in terms of scarce material resources and broken social ties. Material poverty as a result of lack of employment and lack of income is a dependent variable of homelessness. It operates in conjunction with other risks. Research confirms that only a small proportion of very poor people become homeless, but that all homeless people are poor (Blau, 1992; Avramov, 1995; Foscarinis, 1996;). Homeless people are poor because the overwhelming majority depend on welfare, day labour, casual work and/or begging. The impact of poverty on homelessness refracts also through the limited ability of the family and friends to provide assistance. This assistance is partly restrained by the lack of financial resources. Indeed, research shows that many homeless people have doubled up with relatives or friends before ending up on the street or in an emergency shelter. They became literally roofless when relatives and friends were no longer able or willing to provide accommodation. The key structural factors of housing exclusion may be identified as:
- lack of affordable housing;
- lack of adequate social protection;
- lack of adequate assistance and care for individuals with mental disability or personality disorders;
- juridical and social segregation of particular individuals or classes of individuals.
The proximate or personal causes of homelessness are a set of factors associated with a personal history and personality features of individuals. These may be conducive to social isolation and homelessness. Proximate causes of dislocation from regular housing may be identifies as:
- history of inadequate institutions (orphanage, succession of youth care institutions and foster families, mental hospitals, prisons, etc.);
- troubles in the family;
- dropping out of school;
- substance abuse;
- mental disability or personality disorder.

Answer 6

It can be bad friends...such as introduction to drug addiction..or it could be just bad luck...but my parents always told me...beggers or homeless people in Australia earn more money. I don't know if it is true or not..but I always see poor beggers and homeless people as just an unlucky and unfortunate people...

Answer 7

Disappointed persons who tried to do good in life but failed to do so. It is the social responsibility of the government to help beggars and give them the chance to live and work for good.

Answer 8

I believe "lack of will & ambition" is the cause. We all wake up each day with decisions to make, stress to deal with, horrible and good people to tend to, illnesses to fight.

How we handle these obsticals is totally up to US. We choose where we want to be and we choose to either let these things bring bad into our lives or good!

Every morning, why not CHOOSE to have a great day! It really is up to you !!

Answer 9

Most Americans are only a couple of pay checks away from being homeless. I am reminded when I see the homeless "But by the grace of God go I."

Many homeless people are on the streets not as the results of anything they have done wrong. Down Sizing of their company, bad investments, health issues, mental issues, law suits, business failures, all may have contributed or created their problems.

Facilities for the mentally ill since President Reagan's Administration have become nearly non-existing. Instead of the mentally ill being in institutions they are now put on the streets. I find it ludicrous that government agencies hand out medication to mentally ill people and expect them to take them as prescribed.

There was once a young man who was obviously mentally ill that would come to the door of my rectory for help. On several occassions he attempted suicide. I told him one day I could no longer help him unless he admitted himself to the County Mental Ward. I took him to the Emergency Room and sat 12 hours with him waiting to see a doctor. I had to leave to say Mass at my church. The next morning before day break he was ringing the door bell of the rectory. I told him I was through trying to help him.because he did not admit himself.

He told me they had him sign a contract stating if he thought he was going to attempt suicide or hurt someone he would call 911 for an ambulance. I did not believe him and took him back to the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston Texas where I was shocked to discover he was actually telling the truth. They showed me the contract he signed. I suppose this legally freed them from a law suit in the event he hurt himself or someone else. I ask them who they thought needed to be in a mental hospital the most them are him. He had been declared incompetent by the courts and they had him and others like him sign a contract.

It pains me when I see people mistreating and being disrepectful to street people. I try to keep in mind their rudeness results from their ignorance, but it is difficult sometimes for me to demonstrate compassion and ask God to forgive them. I have even found myself asking God to allow them to experience it one day.

We must be careful about handing out money to everyone begging on the street because there are professional beggars. I would suggest if you really want to help volunteer your time and or donate money to an organization in your local area that helps the homeless.

Before I left Galveston the price of oil was beginning to rise. We had a Thanksgiving Dinner for the homeless. I was sitting at the table talking with one of the young men. He ask me if I thought the price of oil would continue to rise and I told him yes. He ask at what price did I think it would peak and I told him around $50. He said Father I think you are very wrong. The problems in the Middle East, the fact the world needs oil, especially countries like China the price of oil will keep escalating and before the end of 2006 it will pass $70 a barrel and one day it will surpass $100 a barrel. He went on to talk to me about the war in Iraq and I was amazed at how knowledgeable he was of current events. I ask him how he kept of with the news and he told me he went to a local barber shop every day and they gave him the paper from the day before. Not everyone on the streets is uneducated, uninterested, useless lazy bums.

I would hope one day all people of the world would be treated with dignity regardless of their social status.

Answer 10

some do come from middle class homes
yet some are really down on their luck