I know a family where one of the six kids is homeless, but it’s because he’s a paranoid schizophrenic. The other siblings try to help him, but he refuses their help. He won’t take the meds, and he doesn’t trust anyone. He doesn’t mind sleeping on park benches, but he gets arrested for doing that. Anyway, it wasn’t a parenting issue in this particular case. No one knows how to help him anymore. They’ve tried for years. They get him apartments but he doesn’t stay. He seems to be on the move frequently. A vagrant if you will.
You can’t help someone who won’t help themselves. That is a lesson the leftist bleeding hearts never learn.
I had a friend who was a social worker. She was driving herself crazy dealing with people who didn’t seem capable of escaping their alcoholism and drug abuse. Her boss called her in one day and told her one thing. “You can’t save them all. Quit trying or you’ll go nuts.” She couldn’t accept or reconcile that. It’s not what her liberal professors had taught, nor did it match up with her far left belief system. So, she quit not long after and found a new profession.
Don’t know what ever happened to her.