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Families
and Children
Books:
The Lady in the Box by
Ann McGovern
Preview the book with your
students. Discuss what they think the book is going to be about by
looking at the cover and some of the pictures.
Teachers can
use this background information when discussing homeless families and
children.
 | Homeless children who suffer from asthma are
returned to overcrowded apartments or placed in roach-infested city
shelters that only aggravate their illness, a federal class-action
lawsuit has charged. (Sengupta, Somini. "City Is Sued
Over Asthma Care For Children in Shelter System," The
New York Times, March
17, 2000).
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| About 1.35 million
children in the United States -- nearly 2 percent of the nation's
total -- are likely to become homeless at some point in the course
of a year, a new analysis of national census and survey data being
presented today has found. (Bernstein, Nina. "Study Documents
Homelessness In American Children Each Year," The New York Times, February 1, 2000).
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| The health of homeless children in New
York is a growing concern (Herbert, Bob. " In America;
Children in Crisis," The New York Times, June 10, 1999.
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