Why are children runaways or throwaway?

In the United States of America, young people without a home, that have either runway or have been thrown away are a real concern for public authorities. According to diverse studies: one in seven young people between the ages of 10 and 18 will run away and youth age 12 to 17 are more at risk of homelessness than adults. These figures are frightening, to say the least, because we are talking about the same youth that is supposed to be preparing themselves in order to help developing modern and future society.

But why do these children end up without a place to call home? Recent studies on the matter might guide us to answer this question:
Around 30 percent of homeless and runaway youth identify themselves as part of the  LGBT community, which might indicate a tolerance trouble in modern American society, which might also be applied to other societies in which LGBT rights are a controversial topic.

A big 46 percent of children who are now homeless, declared being abused physically, 38 said they were emotionally abused and 17 percent were forced into unwanted sexual activities. These facts raise the preoccupation of the current generation of parents in American society, as these homeless and runaways couldn't feel secure and confident in their own houses.
With this data in hand, we can definitely correlate this as a social security problem, in which people who might not be mentally stable are having children and not taking proper care of them, leading them to find new ways to escape from their current situation.

A TED talk by Alexander Newman talks about this topic in a very interesting way, addressing a very valid point of view of the educational system.

References:
YouTube. (2018). Teaching a nation's throw-away kids: Alexander Newman at TEDxLSE 2013. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u86knOp44U4 [Accessed 1 May 2018].

Ncsl.org. (2018). Homeless and Runaway Youth. [online] Available at: http://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/homeless-and-runaway-youth.aspx [Accessed 1 May 2018].

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