Pros And Cons Of Homeless Women

homelessness issues and causes pertains to the past and current literature is scarce, thus findings into the experiences and outcomes of street homeless women are harder to isolate, rather than of generalised homelessness.
The causes of homelessness are extremely difficult to analyse and present complex underlying factors; therefore, attempting to explain the phenomena through ideological assumptions and dominant research is considerably intricate (Stephens et al., 2010). The different realities of homelessness (Fitzpatrick and Christian, 2006) make the fundamental triggers to be fairly inconsistent from eviction to relationship breakdown, loss of employment, drug, alcohol and mental health problems, bereavement, etc. (Crane et al., 2005).

Furthermore, the feminist theory seems to be concerned with the powerless actions of a women in a patriarchal society and policy, however research has identified that “in most Western countries, women appear to be at a lower risk for homelessness than men (Philipott et al., 2007). An element that is not explored by the feminist theory is that men are often disadvantages in relation to homelessness; extensive research shows an increased bias in favour of women, especially in mothers with children in the sense that there is an improved access towards support and family schemes (Neale, 1997; Fitzpatrick, 2000; Cramer and Carter,

Having said that, homelessness pertaining to social sciences, critical realism seems to lack the applicability into empirical research (Williams and May, 1996). Therefore, in order for this theory to be plausible there is a need to demonstrate that critical realism could translate empirically by devising a series of hypothetical mechanisms to postulate the abstract findings it might