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Shelters see increase in homeless men with children.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ Paul Schenk leaves his job in North Kansas City, Mo., at 2 a.m. five days a week and returns to reStart Inc., a homeless shelter downtown. He pays the baby sitter, a woman staying at the shelter, and then kisses his three children asleep in their beds.
He sits in the dark, a thin, wiry man, lulled by the steady whir of the ceiling fan, thankful for the quiet after a hard 10-hour day. Quiet is rare when you're a single parent with three children, 9, 7, and 3. Even rarer in a shelter. Then he crawls wearily into bed and sleeps.
But not for long. His children wake at 8 a.m. and clamor for attention as sunlight strains through the thin curtains. Schenk stumbles into his clothes, pours bowls of cereal and hangs out in the lobby, half awake, trying to keep his children occupied until he leaves for work about 3 p.m.
Schenk, 34, is one of two homeless fathers living at reStart. His situation is not unusual. Increasingly, social service providers say, single men with children need ...
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