~I suspect that a lot of homeless women are that way because they won’t give up a husband or boyfriend that is dragging them down. I can’t prove it, I just suspect it.~
OMG! Your screen name is telling... Please, don’t start class wars here, especially when ‘you can’t prove’ your point!
BTW, are you as compassionate to poor men, ‘dragged down’ by their wives and girlfriends?
Bottom line is, men or women, the vast majority of homeless are extremely lazy irresponsible people.
You can blame the ‘economy’ as much as you wish, but there are still plenty of entry level jobs with only requirements is to be clean and show on time. It pays enough to have housing.
I know that there are men who have been damaged by their attachments to women—I just don’t know of men who are homeless because of women. I suppose that there are some.
When I said “can’t prove”, I meant “anecdotal”. I observe couples who do things like running signs( that’s holding a sign at a freeway exit or busy intersection.) On the one hand, being paired with a man provides safety and companionship, but on the other hand, there are kinds of help, often from friends and family, that the woman could avail herself of, but not with him. For example, a friend or relative might offer a place to stay until she finds a real job etc. but only her, not if he is part of the deal. Rightly or wrongly a lot of families blame the men for the trouble the woman may be having. I actually did know a couple in a rooming house like this. It turned out that she actually had cancer. But at one time she had been gainfully employed by an airline. First she married a bigamist, and that messed her up, then she hooked up with S., who was a seldom employed bum who drank heavily. There were also drug issues, marijuana, at least. They were months behind in rent a d finally evicted. She went back home to Canada to die with family. They wouldn’t permit S. to visit her. I realize that a rooming house is not homeless but it’s not the American dream either. Or Canadian either, evidently. A lot of people there shifted in and out if homelessness. (Not me, thank God.)