The Need

The origins of homeless children are rooted in the general issues of poverty and income distribution in Mexico. Contributing causes are:

• Divorce of separation of the parents

• Family and domestic violence

• Personal illness of parent (s) or caretakers

• Alcohol and/or drug and solvent abuse by parents or the child

• Neglect and abuse of the child

• One or both parents in prison

• Child unable to work and contribute to the family income

• Parental lack of literacy skills and schooling

• Poor social skills and life skills of the parents

• Mental health, mental handicap, and/or physical health problems in either the parents or the child

• Poverty or unemployment

• Parents unable to pay rent

• Emigration, economic migration of the parents to the U.S.

• Single parents unable to combine work and childcare