An Interview with a homeless

After watching the shoot down, The Pursuit of Happyness which starred depart Smith, one of the salient scenes that the researcher personally find strikingly dispiriting is the part when Will Smith and his son struggled to joined a adjust of destitute for an overnight stay on a welfare home.The yield of homeless is too many for the welfare shelters to accommodate. In the homeless creation data from AHAR in 2008, 41% of white Americans, 12.3% of African Americans and 12.5% of Hispanic Americans separately are homeless, which only proves how rampant homelessness in our nation.(US Human Rights Network admit Caucus, 2008) It is quite ironic that homelessness is one of the pressing problems that the US faces despite organism the most dominant country politically and economically in the world.While the film directly attributed homelessness to need i.e. Smiths inadequate earnings, this stark macrocosm is just a tip of the iceberg considering the vast economic opportunities that th e US provides precisely why it was dubbed the land of milk and honey.To learn more nearly the causes of homelessness, the researcher conducted an informal interview with a homeless woman who was every which way selected in a welfare shelter. This led to ones baring that homeless is not simply a result of poverty, but re identification number of some socio psychological imbalances and problems that emanate from ones family.Interview Results and AnalysisThe interviewee was an African American with two children. She has no thought where his eldest son is at the moment. She was not able to finish secondary school because she got pregnant early. Her father was a drunkard who always beats them up at home. Her mother left over(p)(a) them for another man.She decided to moderate their home by getting pregnant. Unfortunately, she to a fault met the wrong man who only perpetuated her agony in life. He was an ex convict who find it hard to get a real job.She stayed with her spirited in partner for a year but decided to leave again as he started to get back to his monkey business. She left her son. After seven years, she got pregnant again but has no idea who the father was because she worked as a hooker.Her 9 year old fille stays in a foster home. She said that there were moments in her life when she had nervous breakdowns and at one point even try to commit suicide. The interview was long and very emotional. In a nutshell, the homeless woman lived a difficult and miserable life.Following a Symbolic Inter-actionist Perspective, homelessness is a symptom of a deeper problem that roots from the most basic sociable institution, the family. In this short interview with a homeless woman, it must be noted that she didnt come from a homeless family.It was homeless in the star that it lacked the love and care needed to properly shape and address children towards a pleasant outlook in life. Poverty also compete a critical factor in the interviewees circumstances becau se poverty is more inclined to difficulties in relationships and family violence because it shapes circumstances that lead to the very(prenominal) such as lack of education and depression.ConclusionHomelessness is more than just a consequence of poverty or ones inability to purchase a home. It is rooted from some psychological disturbance brought about by a history of significant emotional difficulties, difficulties in relationships, and family violence, etc.This in turn inculcates the attitudes and psychological predilection to stay poor and homeless including a sense of helplessness to change ones economic condition, psychological perceptual constancy and homelessness.ReferenceUS Human Rights Network Housing Caucus (2008). Homelessness and Affordable Housing. Response to the oscillatory Report of the United States to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of racial Discrimination. Retrieved fromhttp//www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/docs/ngos/usa/USHRN28.doc