MORE FAMILIES WITH KIDS LIVE ON THE STREET.(MAIN)

Byline: Associated Press

Families with children now account for about 43 percent of the homeless, up from about 33 percent in previous years, the U.S. Conference of Mayors said Tuesday in a survey that challenges some of the stereotypes of urban poverty.

"When you talk about homelessness, people seem to think about the man that's sleeping on the park bench or the lady walking down the street with bags," said St. Louis Mayor Freeman Bosley Jr., co-chairman of the group's Task Force on Hunger and Homelessness.

"But it's families, it's women and children that are gradually beginning to feel these problems."

The 1993 study also found that …