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Homosexual Families
Homosexual Families: Counseling the New Generation of Families Table of Contents I. Introduction . 2 II. Societal Issues and Beliefs Facing Gay and Lesbian Parents .4 III. Research on the Family Environment in Gay and Lesbian Homes 6 IV. Implications for Training

Homosexuality
Homosexuality is being hotly debated today in church and society. When the case is made for the legitimacy of same-sex love, critics rush in with three main defenses. (1) It is contrary to nature. (2) It is condemned in Scripture. (3) Its acceptance would ruin society. The most interesting thing a

HOMELESSNESS

Homelessness is a very large problem that America has come to face with. Millions of people, including children, families, babies, veterans, and the elderly live day by day without food, water or a roof over their head. People that are mentally ill also have to tough it out on the streets, which can be very confusing to them, and dangerous to us. This problem must be solved soon, because it's not getting any better.

People have not always had to suffer with homelessness. Too bad the problem has almost always existed, it had not reached a severe level until recently. With every war there has been a small trickle of homeless veterans to follow, but the Vietnam War and Korean War left a wave of many people without anywhere to go. This was just the start of the problem. Then the government decided to decriminalize drunkenness, loitering, and roaming on the streets. That means there were many homeless people that would normally be arrested roaming the streets. Women and children started to filter into the homeless scene, and then in a huge recession in the 1980s 11,000,000 people were laid off (9.7% of all jobs). By the beginning of the 1990s, over one million people were on waiting lists for homes.

Homeless people can be categorized into four basic categories, families, lone, transient, or bums. A person in a family is usually a man and wife with one to many children living on the streets. A lone person is that who has no connection to anybody and never travels, but stays in the same general area. Transients is a person who never settles down for more than a few weeks, but keeps moving throughout cities by means of walking and hitch hiking.

Even the people with full time jobs are in need of permanent residence. These people live...