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verbal, emotional, bysieal or sexual abuse and disintegratimi of family ((Ferguson, 2ntint 13ccnume of these re1111013t,OULII 1■01111010.11eas is common 0911e dysfunctional families and substance u.
Similarly, another cause of youth homelessness in U.S is physical and sexuatc hdt11;use. Many studios sbowe tat noticeable number of homeless youth have experience of different form of child abuse. Edit.. Ganim,,yier and Karnik (2012) explain that abuse may be verbal, emotional, physical or sexual. They mention that among all these abus§major cause of homelessness is physical abuse and sexual abuse is the second cause among these abus411/4 ” homelessness in American youth. Tyler and Schmitz (2013) also describe/ tat,tte physical
abuse and sexual abuse are more common in children having step-parents. They explait) that these parents often biAnd touchecthe children for simple reason or sometimeithey try to perform sexual activities with their step-children as a result these abuses children choose to leave the house and live the street. Fergusun (2009) states that hysical abuse was commonly committed by family members whereas se abase was most commonly preformed by non-family member, foster father or stranger. As a result most*victin)Sof these abuses end up voith-homeles4etes.
Mental health issue among street youth is one of the commonest consequencelof homelessness initUnited Stat, Mental illness are im icated by many factors which include external factor such as absence of parental care,sexual and physical abuse, clash between parents and psychological disorder of parents substance use, lack of social support and long stay on the street are the causative facto5of mental illness (Wrate & Blair, as cited in Edidin, Ganim, Winter