ities), illnesses, illiteracy, addictions, and personal circumstances (e.g., victimization via domestic violence, inadequate income for family size and needs, lack of family support networks, eviction from an apartment, condemned buildings, and so forth). For many temporarily homeless women and their dependent children, domestic violence of spousal/ partner abuse may lead to a lack of available shelter; for child victims of abuse, Quindlen (2001) stated, homelessness may be a consequence of electing to runaway rather than remain in an abusive environment.
Burt (2003) also pointed out that a third factor may mitigate structural and individual factors that together dete
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