Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Why do kids and teens runaway?

One in seven kids, and teens, between the ages of 10 and 18 runaway from home at some point. There are also 1 million to 3 million children who runaway, or are just homeless, who are living on the streets in the United States. Many people believe that running away from home is not the best way to go; where as, if you're getting abused, for example, and you feel the need to runaway, you need to make sure that you go to a safe place!


There are many reasons that children runaway from home. First of all, a lot of kids leave because they have parents who are drunks. Drunk parents usually only care about their alcohol rather than their children; therefore, they run away. For example, on a movie that I've seen, the mother and father were drunks and their house had NO food at all! Then, the father had gotten paid at work but brought home alcohol instead of food, so of course, his kids were left hungry. Parents who are alcoholics usually don't care about the accomplishments their children make in school or sports; they only care about their drinks! Next, many runaways may leave because they don't want what their parents are pushing them to do, such as sports and their careers. They go because they may not want to go to Harvard or they don't want to play basketball. So as you can see, many kids runaway from home because they are sick and tired of having to try and get some food once in a while, and they really don't want what their parents are telling them to go for in life, maybe, they want to do their own things.


The most popular reason why kids decide to runaway would have be because they are getting abused. There are many different ways to get abused, such as sexually, verbally, and physically. Children runaway because they can't take the pain of feeling violated or embarrassed because they are being hurt. There is a chance of them believing that they are in danger of getting being beaten to death. In a music video, called "Runaway Love", that I have seen; it showed a story about a little girl who had a single father who was a drunk and physically abused her. She wanted really bad to runaway because she feared that she was going to die; so she did leave. Also, many of the people who decide not to runaway from being abused is because their parents are keeping them there with threats and bribes. As a result, they will decide to runaway from home because they are told by friends and teachers to go to a place where it can actually be safer than their house. So as you can see, the main reason a child,or teen, runs away from home is because they don't want to be abused sexually, verbally, or physically, any longer!

Finally, kids and teens tend to runaway from home because they just simply don't like the life that they are living. They imagine the life that they could of had if they were born into a family where they weren't abused, they didn't have alcoholic parents, and lastly they could get what they actually wanted. That's why many children and teens decide to runaway to a more safer place then the place they are now.

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