"Thirty percent of pregnant and parenting teens in Massachusetts were homeless at some point during the past fiscal year and almost 10 percent of teen parents who were homeless had been subject to commercial sexual exploitation, according to a report released Tuesday.
"The authors of the Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy report say it “exposes the cascade of trauma” facing homeless teen parents, finding 59 percent of teen parents who had been homeless had been physically or emotionally abused or neglected by a caregiver and 27 percent had been sexually abused. Researchers cited lack of family support, teens raising siblings, and teens being kicked out by caregivers as reasons for teen homelessness....
"Lisa Goldblatt-Grace, director of My Life My Choice, a Justice Resource Institute program that aims to reach teen girls most vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation, predicted the report would draw national attention because it makes connections between family conflict, abuse, sexual exploitation and teen parenting and homelessness...."
http://www.patriotledger.com/news/x2139010811/Report-makes-links-between-abuse-homelessness-among-teen-parents
Report:
Living on the Edge Conflict and Trauma at Lead to Teen Parent Homelessness
http://www.massteenpregnancy.org/sites/default/files/publications/matpliving-edgesummer2013.pdf
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