What motivates teenage Runaway?
• Escaping emotional experience or consequence that they are expecting in some future encounter or situation. • Child abuse or neglect, Alcohol or other drug use. • A recurrent or ongoing unpleasant, painful or difficult experience in their life. • Divorce or separations that are not handled appropriately. • To avoid the loss of activities, relationships or friendships that are considered important or worthwhile. • To be with others people who are supportive, encouraging and active even if they are not good influence. • To be with others or in places that is distractions from other problems in their life. • To change or stop what they are doing or about to do. Warning signs of runaway • Hurt feelings and failure to reach an acceptable agreement. • The child has a network of friends who are largely unsupervised, oppositional, defiant, involved with drugs and other antisocial behaviors. • An increasing pattern of impulsive, irrational and emotionally abusive behavior by either the parent
