An Interview with a homeless

After ceremonial the film, The Pursuit of Happyness which starred Will Smith, unrivalled of the salient scenes that the researcher per boyally find strikingly disheartening is the part when Will Smith and his son strugg guide to joined a queue of destitute for an overnight stay on a wellbeing sign of the zodiac.The number of homeless is too many for the welfare shelters to accommodate. In the homeless population data from AHAR in 2008, 41% of clear Americans, 12.3% of African Americans and 12.5% of Hispanic Americans respectively are homeless, which only proves how rampant homelessness in our nation.(US Human Rights Network Housing forgather, 2008) It is quite ironic that homelessness is superstar of the pressing problems that the US faces despite being the most dominant country politically and economically in the world.While the film directly attributed homelessness to poverty i.e. Smiths inadequate earnings, this stark reality is just a tip of the crisphead lettuce consid ering the vast economic opportunities that the US provides precisely why it was dubbed the land of milk and h singley.To learn more about the causes of homelessness, the researcher conducted an informal interview with a homeless woman who was randomly selected in a welfare shelter. This led to ones discoin truth that homeless is not simply a result of poverty, but consequence of some socio mental imbalances and problems that emanate from ones family.Interview Results and AnalysisThe interviewee was an African American with two children. She has no idea where his eldest son is at the moment. She was not able to finish secondary instill because she got pregnant early. Her father was a drunkard who always beats them up at home. Her mother left them for another man.She decided to leave their home by setting pregnant. Unfortunately, she also met the wrong man who only perpetuated her worrying in life. He was an ex convict who find it hard to receive a real job.She stayed with her l ive in partner for a course of instruction but decided to leave once again as he started to get back to his monkey business. She left her son. After seven years, she got pregnant again but has no idea who the father was because she worked as a hooker.Her 9 year old daughter stays in a shelter home. She said that there were moments in her life when she had nervous breakdowns and at one point even tried to commit suicide. The interview was long and very stirred up. In a nutshell, the homeless woman lived a difficult and criminal life.Following a Symbolic Inter-actionist Perspective, homelessness is a symptom of a deeper problem that root from the most basic social institution, the family. In this short interview with a homeless woman, it must be noted that she didnt come from a homeless family.It was homeless in the sense that it lacked the love and care undeniable to properly shape and guide children towards a pleasant outlook in life. Poverty also played a critical factor in t he interviewees circumstances because poverty is more inclined to difficulties in relationships and family vehemence because it shapes circumstances that lead to the same such as lack of statement and depression.ConclusionHomelessness is more than just a consequence of poverty or ones inability to purchase a home. It is rooted from some psychological disturbance brought about by a history of significant emotional difficulties, difficulties in relationships, and family violence, etc.This in turn inculcates the attitudes and psychological predilection to stay brusque and homeless including a sense of helplessness to change ones economic condition, psychological stability and homelessness.ReferenceUS Human Rights Network Housing Caucus (2008). Homelessness and Affordable Housing. Response to the Periodic Report of the United States to the United Nations delegation on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Retrieved fromhttp//www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/docs/ngos/usa/USHRN2 8.doc