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[Anonymous No.3347863]

Help /b/.
I'm writing my final paper for human services class and my "big idea" is that there should be shelters and halfway-type houses for homeless pregnant teens and homeless young families, giving them the chance to find work and get their shit together, rather than living off of welfare and passing that idea and lifestyle onto their children.
Do you guys have any counter arguments? Opinions? Suggestions?
I'm really having trouble coming up with a good hook and thesis.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, in return, reaction faces.

[Anonymous No.3347868]

>>3347863
correction */lit/
sorry, c+p

[Anonymous No.3347873]

Oh goody, reaction faces, we are in desperate need of those.

[Anonymous No.3347876]

>>3347873
Some are quite good. I dislike it when reaction faces do not accompany any text, though. That's just lazy/needlessly ambiguous.

[Anonymous No.3347885]

>>3347873
>>3347876
thanks for the help, guys.

[Cerebrate Anon No.3347893]

The primary boundaries to this sort of thing, if I remember from when I did a big project on homeless shelters, are

>Funding: You're not charging rent or fees, and aint nobody as generous toward the homeless as they like to pretend
>Zoning: Businesses tend to assume that if there's a homeless shelter, all the property values will plummet, their bathrooms will be coke dens, and all the wealthy folk will abandon that part of town, taking their sweet, sweet money elsewhere
>Drugs: Not even stereotyping. If you lived under a goddamn bridge for three years, you'd take painkillers, too.

I'd like to note real quick that if your attitude is genuinely that homeless people are
>living off of welfare and passing that idea and lifestyle onto their children,
Then you're going to fail the assignment. The vast majority of homeless people are not the scum you'll see on fucking 19 And Pregnant or whatever the fuck. They're just cold and hungry and desperate.

Also, if you don't differentiate your idea from the already-existent halfway houses and shelters, you're still going to fail. It sounds very much like you haven't done the basic research. There's probably already a shelter that does this in your community. Go find out how they deal with shit, and what they need.

[Anonymous No.3347903]

>>3347885

[Anonymous No.3347931]

>>3347893
Thank you for the suggestions, anon.
Although, that is not the general attitude I have toward homeless people in my paper. I am actually trying to give off the feeling that I think the homeless AREN'T the stereotypical druggies and scum, and just unfortunate people that need a chance.
My idea is for the "shelters" to only take in pregnant teens and homeless couples, WITH condidtions, such as a drug test, etc.
I have done my research and have noted that more than 70% of teen mothers with poor living arrangements do in fact get on welfare and never finish obtaining their diploma or college degree.
Probably should have said that, sorry.

[Anonymous No.3347945]

>>3347931

[Anonymous No.3347949]

>>3347863
You are aware the Britain did this in the 19th century.

They were called workhouses.

People starved (and starved their children to death) rather than be imprisoned in them.

[Anonymous No.3347962]

>>3347949

[Cerebrate Anon No.3347964]

>>3347931
>more than 70% of teen mothers with poor living arrangements do in fact get on welfare and never finish obtaining their diploma or college degree.

Generally, that's because caring for a child is expensive and time consuming, and so is getting a diploma or degree. In my state, taking your GED costs $250. Working the sort of McDonalds job you can get without a goddamn HS diploma, you're never, ever going to have that to spare.

You're sure as fuck never going to have the, what, $20,000 you need to buy a degree.

All while you're paying to raise a kid.

I just don't think it's realistic that you're going to get this done, unless your entire operation consists of a free-money-and-daycare intensive-study facility.