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CBS has a habit of referring to teenagers as "children"--see anchor Katie Couric's two-part expose of child prostitutes in July (Tyndall Report comments here and here) that mostly featured females older than the age of consent--so it was no surprise that Seth Doane's latest entry in CBS' Children of the Recession series should focus on some of the nation's 1.6m homeless teenagers. Doane took to the back alleys of Salt Lake City to check out the warehouses, rooftops and abandoned buildings used by youthful squatters looking for a place to sleep. A hotline finds that more teenagers are turning to "panhandling, prostitution, selling drugs and stealing to survive." Doane made the important point that not all homeless teenagers have run away; many were thrown out by their parents.
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