FREE Access to Full Text: This commentary explores the challenges of parenting while homeless. Ms. Fonfield-Ayinla offers a first-hand account of her experiences as a mother who struggled with domestic violence, chronic illness, and homelessness. This article was featured in the "Special Section on Parenting and Homelessness", guest edited by the Homelessness Resource Center and published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol 79, July 2009.

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The Homelessness Resource Center is providing open access to the "Special Section on Parenting and Homelessness" published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Please take the time to read each of the articles within this special section (see "Related Items" to the right). You can earn 10 Continuing Education Credits by reading these articles and completing an examination. In addition to the article please find the Continuing Education Credits form attached.