Would Your Children Run Away From Home??
- Some Reasons Kids Have Run Away -
17-year-old's family wouldn't let her back in her home.
12-year-old having problems with parents' rules.
16-year-old says her family can't communicate. She sees her family as dysfunctional.
14-year-old was experiencing verbal abuse.
13-year-old afraid to go home because he skipped school.
11-year-old got off the bus at the wrong stop.
12-year-old says that his mother has been abusing him.
13-year-old was arguing with her parents and they threw her out of the home.
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If these children had known that there was somewhere that they could go,
that there was somewhere to turn to, that there was help available,
they wouldn't have ended up on the streets, subjecting themselves to danger.