Number of Homeless Female Veterans is Growing...and Many Have Kids

It's an unfortunate fact that military service members experience physical, mental and emotional hardships on the job. But once they're discharged, the aftermath of a tour of duty can bring those hardships back home with them.

The Boston Globe has a little-reported story on the rising number of homeless women veterans, many of them single parents with kids. What's even more disturbing is the fact that although services are in place to help returning vets, many feel that the culture of the Veterans Administration is primarily geared toward addressing the needs of men; therefore, they're having a hard time adjusting to the very different and specific needs of women.