Re: Question on reasons for youth leaving home

[Edward Adrian Lentz <ealent@xxxxxxxx>]

Ann - I'd be interested in the results of your inquiry below (post to the list or
backchannel me).  I am embarking on a 2-year ethnological study of
gay/bi/trans/queer adolescent males on the downtown eastside of Vancouver, British
Columbia, looking at how the violence in their lives influences their behavior
accessing the social service & mental health systems.  Any pointers to investigating
the risk behaviors of these types of kids are always welcome.

(Bit of background for those on the list: The downtown eastside of Vancouver holds a
number of unfortunate distinctions: 1) the poorest neighborhood in Canada, 2) the
highest prevalence level of AIDS/HIV+ in North America, 3) &, I believe, the highest
per capita rate of drug related deaths in North America).

Adrian Lentz
Doctoral student, Child & Youth Care
Faculty of Human & Social Development
University of Victoria, BC
P.O. Box 1700
Victoria  BC  Canada  V8W 2Y2

cell 1.250.216.2201
fax  1.250.381-5564
elentz@uvic.ca    or    ealent@home.com (better for attachments)

Ann_Jolly@hc-sc.gc.ca wrote:

> Hi there,
> I am part of a team doing a study on sexually transmitted diseases in street
> youth in seven cities across Canada.
>
> We are trying to obtain tested questions, ( one or two) on the reasons why youth
> decide to leave home in the first place.  Some of the reasons included in the
> previous phase of data collection include "fighting" or "too many rules".
> However, this does not give us a  good indication of whether the youth or the
> adult may be unreasonable in their expectations.  For example, the youth may
> come home with his hair dyed blue, and his parents throw him out of the house.
> But they did not previously let him know that there was such a rule, so he could
> not have been expected to abide by it.
>
> Any help would be most welcome!
>
> Thanks,
> Ann