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Children of Frequently Uprooted Homes Suffer from Hunger and Poor Health
The study was carried out by the Children's Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program (C-SNAP), which has the largest clinical data base on poor children under age three in America.
The study found that over 38 percent of families with children under age three interviewed in Boston Medical Center's emergency room had moved more than two times in the previous 12 months, lived in overcrowded conditions, or were doubled up with another family.
The study calls these families the "hidden homeless".
Children whose families had moved two or more times were almost twice as likely to be in poor health as children in stable housing.
According to C-SNAP founder, Deborah A. Frank, director of BMC's Grow Clinic, "Like so many of the economic conditions hurting our young children 'hidden homelessness' is an invisible problem until doctors see it written on the bodies of infants and toddlers."
The report estimates that there are at least 14,800 "hidden homeless" families in Boston and the number is likely to grow as the economy declines.
"Low-income families are contending with unprecedented challenges: increasing unemployment, continued high rates of foreclosures, rising food prices and heating costs that stretch family budgets to the breaking point," said Samantha Morton, Deputy Director of MLPC.
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