[Jill]

This post jumped out at me because I am the director of a homeless shelter for women and children. I would say 90 percent of homelessness equates to bad choices. I see so many who are really good people and have become friends to many who have come through my shelter and the root always goes back to not one but a few bad choices. So I have to agree with it being a choice. There was an instance that I witnessed first hand where it was a choice: This lady sleeps in the graveyard and under bridges. She does not drink or even smoke a cigarette. She comes to the shelte about once every six months or so to bathe and eat and always she does yard work for me to work for her meal. She don't want a hand out. Someone read of her story in the local newspaper and gave her a house, rent free and utilities paid. She stayed two weeks and went back out to the graveyard. I questioned her only once on this and she told me she cannot conform to society as a whole and decided (again choice) to go against the grain. Definately I agree with choice.