oconnor+deviance

---There are many deviant acts but one that I chose was running away from home. There are many reasons why a child my run away such as: having a troubled home, having something they are ashamed to tell their parents, abuse, parents divorcing, drugs, drinking, school, and droping out of school. Running away does not fix any of these problems. Running away from your problems only makes the problem worse. According to the National Runaway Switchboard, an organization that takes calls and helps kids who have run away or are thinking of running away, 1 in 7 kids between the ages of 10 and 18 will run away at some point. And there are 1 million to 3 million runaway and homeless kids living on the streets in the United States. Some children are repeat runaways, so it is difficult to know the exact number of runaway children. ---I think that runaway is a deviant act. Running away from problems is not going to get you anywhere and life and it just teaches you to run away from your problems and not deal with them like you should. Kids who run away do not eve plan where they are going to go after they run away so I think it is not smart to.
 * __Running Away From Home__**
 *  overit or tacit approval of parents or caretakers, and "push-outs," who are turned out by parents who do not want them, as well as teens who leave because they are dissatisfied with their home life.
 * The 2002 White House Conference on Missing, Exploited, and Runaway Children estimated that there were about 1.3 million American children living on the streets each day and that one in seven children between the ages of 10 and 18 will run away.
 * has been estimated that at least 60 to 70 percent of these young people are fleeing from families in which they have been mentally, physically, or sexually abused
 * Although most runaways are between the ages of fourteen and seventeen there are occasionally some as young as ten years of age
 * In most cases, runaways are not far from home. They usually stay in the vicinity and may have the assistance of a friend.


 * One way to help with a kid not running away is to talk to them


 * 1 out of every 7 kids will run away from home before they turn 18 and 40% of those will cross state lines.

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