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1 million teens run away from their homes a year from every social class, race, and religion according to Sue Schiff. Runaway teens is not a problem, its a tragedy. Runaways are teens who run away from home and their life. Although there are shelter services provided for teens, teens living on the streets are more prone to drugs, alcohol, theft, depression, prosititution, and homelessness. Teens go into prostitution in order to earn money, and perhaps that money isn't spent correctly, maybe it is spent for drugs and alcohol. Therefore leading to theft of food. therefore leading to homelessness because they are spending too much money on drugs and alcohol to make themselves feel better, and then leading to depression because of what their life had come to. The police have a big problem with runaway teens for several reasons. First, is because out o f desperation teens are making illegal choices. And second, because when the families report the "missing" teens to the police, they have to go out and look for them when really there might be actual teens who are missing and are in greater need of their attention and actually want to come home. When teens runaway from home, it causes a huge crises involving the police, friends, and family.
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