Technically the closet thing to that is: if the mother is homeless whilst pregnant then giving birth on the street with the child brought into poverty. However, whether the mother herself is born homeless is unclear: could she be born into it herself or ended up in that situation later (as in born into a stable family with shelter from birth but circumstances change later in her life).

The thing is that, a homeless minor can’t just look for work as they aren’t old enough and can’t really receive an education as schools require at least a permanent address or a parent. Even if a homeless mother has given birth, would she really be able to keep her own baby or would the kid be taken away being put up for adoption if someone found out a homeless woman has a child?

Even if it was the homeless kid begging for money whilst the homeless parent hides somewhere by using their own son or daughter as bait or to gather sympathy points from strangers, since you can’t just say “get a job” towards a kid who’s homeless since that won’t make sense as you are aware kids aren’t old enough to work & employers won’t hire them due to labor laws.

Or, it could be “homeless dad uses daughter to shoplift” or “homeless mother tells her son to steal” for survival, since the consequences between minors and adults differ. Like, if the store owner caught a minor stealing, most likely they may be questioned “where are your parents?” & being given a slap on the wrist since kids for the most part are expected to be accompanied with an adult.

  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    1. you sure as hell don’t need to be outright-homeless to be in poverty. That’s born into destitution not mere-poverty ( the working-poor, in less-than-living-wage, are in poverty, but at-least they’ve got some lifeline, temporarily ).

    2. In some countries, there is a safety-net of some kind.

    3. tropical-contexts are MUCH less dangerous than nordic contexts, for this question.

    4. yes, education & employment & online-shopping & library-card, etc, all require that a person be not homeless, that they have a “legal address” that isn’t a post-office box.

    5. would the child be taken away, to care for them? Hoomin, in some countries there are harvesting of children for organ-removal, or for plain extermination: homeless/underclass lives are garbage in many institutions/class’s eyes… you’ve obviously never lived homeless for years.

    6. to great extent it depends on the culture, more than anything else. & individual-person’s-culture changes, throughout life ( people tend to become more conservative in some ways, as they get older, though that doesn’t mean moneyarchy-conservative, that can mean philosophically-conservative, or spiritually-conservative, or whatever, but the tendency is general & well-attested )

    7. What magical-factor would somehow “prevent” being homeless-from-birth, globally?? That doesn’t even make any sense.

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