I choose Violence. I remember when I was younger, my aunt's fiancee had his two nieces move in with us temporarily until family services came and took them and place them in a foster home. Their mother was jailed for child abuse. The two girls who were older than me were placed in foster homes. I remember coming home from school and crying because they were gone. Eventually, their mother married and had another child. She never got custody back of the girls. Then she went to prison for killing the last child she had. She hung the two year od on a door knob by his suspenders and beat him with a belt buckle. The child died from wounds received during that beating.
I am not sure how they coped with being in foster care. However, I knew when they came to stay with us, they were always sad and crying. My aunt tried to do things with them to cheer them up but they were extrmely sad.
Many Asia children refugees have experienced events related to war or persecution that may affect their mental and physical health long after the events have occurred. While in their countries of origin refugee children may have experienced:
- violence (as witnesses, victims, and perpetrators)
- war
- lack of food, water, and shelter
- physical injuries, infections, and diseases
- torture
- forced labor
- sexual assault
- lack of medical care
- loss of loved ones
Hi Shavonne,
ReplyDeleteYour post was so sad it made me want to cry. It's so sad when children are faced with so much violence at such a young age. I have worked with so many children over the years that have come from homes filled with violence, and as a result a lot of them were in foster care or living with relatives, usually grandparents. Another thing has always saddened me is that children today are so accustomed to either one of their parents or even both of them being in and out of prison. Currently in my center we have a family who in the past we have had three of their older children attend our center, and now presently we have a brother and sister attending school. And I have frequent conversations with the four-year old girl when I go into the classroom, and I'm always saddened after our conversations. Most of the time her and her brothers and sisters (All seven of them) are usually back and forth between their grandparents because their parents are in and out of jail. Usually it's their father whose usually in jail, but on many occasions mom has also been in jail, and at least on three different occasions I can remember they both were in jail at the same time. I think the one thing that makes me so said, is just how use the children are to their parents being in and out of jail, it has become their norm, as well as the violence at home. Thank-you for the post and the reminder of just how prevalent violence is in our society today, and how unfortunately the innocent victims are almost always the children.
Sylvia
Shavonne,
ReplyDeleteYour post was heart touching. There is so much abuse, so much that we never find out about. There are children who are afraid to tell fear that they will be taken away from their family. It is so true that there are so many parents in and out of jail. I find so many children that talk about their parents being in jail as thought they were on vacation or just living in another town. I had a 13 year old young man say to me that his dad was in jail and his biggest fear was that he was going to grow up and be just like his father. I asked him why did he feel like that. He said people were always telling he was just like his father and since he had the same name as his father he fears growing up and beoing incarcerated. Thany you for your post thanks for sharing.
I was very upset when reading your post, a very sad story. We have had enough violence in the world already, and some children can't even get away from violence at home. Family and parents are supposed to bring warmth, care and love to the little ones, not harm and violence.
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