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10/22/2009 12:00:00 AM |
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Number of babies in homeless shelters increasing
by Mike Clary
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
July 13, 2009
At 5 weeks old, with a crown of dark hair and big blue eyes, Anastasia Garcia is one of the newest faces of the economic crisis. She was born homeless.
"When we are lucky enough to be settled, we will tell her that things were not always as easy as you may think," said Angela Garcia, 26, laying the infant down in a crib crammed into the corner of a small room at the Broward Outreach Center in Pompano Beach she shares with her husband David Henson and their two older daughters, ages 2 and 6.
In Fort Lauderdale, Demali Staple's youngest child, 4-month-old Jabari, is another recession baby, entering a world gripped by the worst economy in more than a generation. When Staple finishes work as a landscaper for the city of Oakland Park, she picks up her infant son and his brother Alvash, 3, at a day care center and they return to a room at Covenant House, a shelter for runaways and homeless youth.
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