Living as a runaway youth can be exceptionally harmful to family and the society at large. Living in a shelter or on the street can be unhygienic, dangerous, and disordered. The runaway is at great risk of sustaining physical damage, including injuries and infections. Youths who live as runaway also suffer all-embracing emotional harm. Living as a runaway also corrodes youth’s sense of privacy, security, and trust. The education of runaway youths in peril, as homelessness makes attending school and meeting learning goals exceptionally difficult. Among others it is recommended that counselors should work more intensively with parents and the family in understanding the home situation (which causes their children to run away) before considering restoration of the child to the same environment and that counselors should work with the community within which the child is restored to ensure that the family of a runaway child and the child itself gets the community support when restored.