Become a Homeless Kid
Imagine you are a 13 year old homeless kid who ran away from home because you were physically or sexually abused. You have no friends or family that you can go to that won't turn you into your parents.
Whatever you have is what you could fit into a backpack and your pockets and that won't be much. You are now a homeless 13 year old street kid with little to no resources.
You will meet many new friends many will invite you to a meal, many will offer you a place to stay and take you home and rape you in every form and fashion for hours or even days.
Within days you will meet other homeless street kids who will take you under their wing and teach you their survival techniques.
You will learn how to avoid detection by the police.
You will learn it is safer to stay in groups.
You will learn where to sleep and where not to sleep.
You will learn how to dumpster dive, going through dumpsters to look for thrown-away food and other useful items that you can use to survive on the streets.
You will learn the fine art of grab and run from outdoor cafes and stores, at 13 you are already a juvenile delinquent and wanted by the authorities.
You will learn where you can wash-up and use the bathroom and where you can't.
You will learn where to get additional clothes, most of the time grab and run.
You will learn the fine art of prostitution (female) hustling (male), selling your body to child predators for whatever you can get.
Many times you will wonder if you will see your 14th birthday, and some of you won't.
Being homeless or a runaway means that you are at a higher risk for physical abuse and sexual abuse.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures five thousand homeless youth die each year from assault.
That is equivalent to five high schools of students each year.
And you will learn so much more depending on the choices that you make from day to day.
You will learn to hate the society that ignores your existence, and the organizations that has turned your existence into a profit making business.
How do I know, I was a homeless kid I have been there and done that, need I say more.
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Russell T. Hartsaw
Founder & Chairman
Invisible Youth Network
Note: The above article originally appeared on this page of IYN's main website.
