There are 15,000 to 30,000 homeless people in Mexico City alone. Mexican children are also very likely to be homeless due to reasons such as:
- "Divorce or separation of the parents
- Family and domestic violence
- Personal illness of parent(s) or carers
- Alcohol and/or drug and solvent abuse by parents or the child
- Neglect and abuse of the child leading to the child deciding to leave home
- One or both parents in prison
- Child unable to work and contribute to the family income. (children with a handicap are more likely to be abandoned)
- Parental lack of literacy skills and schooling
- Poor social skills and life skills of the parents
- Mental health, mental handicap, and/or physical health problems in either the parents or the child.
- Poverty or unemployment
- Parents unable to pay rent
- Emigration, economic migration of the parents to the US.
- Single parents unable to combine work and childcare"
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"Why Do Mexican Children Become Homeless?" Homeless Children & Homelessness. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2014. <http://www.mexico-child-link.org/homelessness-reasons.htm>.
"25 Cities With Extremely High Homeless Populations - NewsLinQ."NewsLinQ. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2014. <http://www.newslinq.com/homeless-populations/>.
"25 Cities With Extremely High Homeless Populations - NewsLinQ."NewsLinQ. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2014. <http://www.newslinq.com/homeless-populations/>.