ABSTRACT
Denise Moses has lived in Chicago all of her life. She and her three children have lived in a shelter for homeless women and children on the South Side of Chicago for three months. The shelter limits homeless families to a four-month stay. Denise is black, a single parent, and on Public Aid (AFDC). She is twenty-one years old. When she was sixteen she quit school because she was pregnant. At the time we interviewed her she was with her two daughters, ages three and five, and her son, a year and a half old. Five days after we finished our interview, she gave birth to a new baby girl in the shelter.
