While there are a variety of obvious signs of abuse and neglect in this article, there are also a variety of underlying issues of oppression that readers can see in the article. One of the first things that stood out as less obvious oppression is when teachers and adults assumed that Seth’s parents, Tercel and Latoya Martin, were bad people or parents solely because of how their child behaved. While a poor homelife can play a factor in bad behavior in children, this is not the case in this article. The parents moved multiple times, saw numerous doctors and professionals, and even tried to educate Seth at home (Aviv). His parents went above and beyond to help Seth’s development as a child, however others assumed differently. For example, in …show more content…
She feared that if she was unable to get her son, the school could call the police, assuming that she is a bad parent (Aviv). Latoya spent most of her time looking for a new job because the schools refused to put up with Seth’s behavior (Aviv). This is just one of the many examples of the less obvious oppression that Seth and his family faced during his childhood. Additionally, it was nearly impossible for Seth and the students that went to GNETS to attempt to learn because of the conditions of the school. For example, the first school he attended had very few staff members and an unqualified teacher (Aviv). Seth and the children were never given the chance to learn, due to the horrible circumstances of the GNETS school. Seth and his family were oppressed by the education system and the people around them for assuming Seth’s behavior could change based on his education conditions at the GNETS school. Society owes more debt than what can be paid back to Seth’s family and the victims of GNETS …show more content…
This is something that needs to be exposed and heard of in order for it to not happen again. There is no reason that a child should be denied an education because of conditions that they are unable to control. After moving back to Atlanta, Latoya was finally able to find the perfect place for Seth. In fact, the director of Lionheart School stated a wonderful quote that emphasizes the importance of never giving up on a child as a teacher. He stated, “‘If the child is punished for screaming, then we’ve missed an opportunity to get to know this child and what he is telling us”’ (Aviv). As a future teacher, it is vital to be aware of the past mistakes that were made in the education system and learn from them. No family or child should have to go through what GNETS families did, therefore it is so important that educators give every child a fair chance at an education. A big part of a teacher’s job is to try and understand or relate to each student, that way they are able to serve and provide the specific things that each child needs to be successful and gain an
We dread the thought of school because to us it is a chore, it’s a hassle, it’s something that messes with our sleep schedule, it is something that gets in the way of lounging around and binge watching Netflix. Pashtana doesn’t take her school and education for granted because she does not have the same liberties we do. While we enjoy driving into the city and shopping over the weekend, Pashtana unwillingly makes wedding arrangements with her cousin. While we complain about our mom nagging us to clean our room, Pashtana is getting beaten by her father because she wants to learn more about the world. While we have stocked fridges and pantries and
In the essay "Overcoming Abuse - My Story", Shawna Platt talks about her childhood with her alcoholic parents and her struggles. She has experienced neglect, domestic, emotional and sexual abuse. She also talks about how she overcame all the abuse, the way the abuse effected her mental health, and how she broke the cycle with her children. While reading this essay, the one incident stood out the most was that her parents left Shawna alone with her newborn sister. At the time, Shawna was only ten years old.
In today’s world there are millions of people who grow up in situations that make them powerless. Poverty, violence, and drugs surround children from birth and force them to join the cycle. In L.B. Tillit’s Unchained a young boy named TJ grows up in this environment. With both his mother and father struggling with addiction, he is often left alone on the streets to fend for himself. He turns to a local gang for protection and a sense of place in Jr. High, but is quickly taken out of the life he knows when his father overdoses and dies. TJ is sent to live in a foster home where he learns to care for others and meets a girl and falls in love with her. However, when his mother regains custody of him, TJ is forced back into the gang where he uses violence and drug dealing to stay alive. With help from his foster care manager he soon realizes that he can make it out of his life and return to his foster home and the girl he loves. A central theme of Unchained is that people have the power to make decisions to determine their future.
Parental influences from each generation leads to chain reactions affecting the behaviour of future children. The instructor of the Warrior Program states that “they (the children separated from their families by residential schools) didn’t learn to be parents and instead just passed on their hurt to their children” (LaBoucane-Benson, 2015, p. 49). As told from Uncle Ray Carver, Bernice Carver was taken by the government as a child to stay of in a residential school. She did not remember her family, as seen in Peter’s small and incomplete family map. Charoenwongsak et al. (2017) conducted a lab observing the relation between parenting styles and drug abuse in Thai adolescents. This study concluded that neglectful parents (or the absence of parents) put Thai adolescents in a risk for substance use. The lack of attention and warmth from parents creates dependency needs, leading children to rely on substances to fulfill dependency. Therefore, it can be inferred that Benice Carver depended on drugs caused from the separation from her family, which lead to poor parenting skills resulting in Peter’s drug association. The current Canadian education system needs to put an end to the chain reaction of disturbed parenting styles within the Aboriginal community caused by the residential schools. Research of personal family members, teaching correct parenting styles and training
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Child abuse and neglect are “social” issues that were addressed by the author. While children are in foster care, they may become victims of maltreatment: child neglect, child emotional, physical and sexual abuse. The terms neglect refers to when parents fail to provide a child’s basic needs and provide satisfactory level of care (Downs, Moore and McFadden, 2009). An example of a child being neglected is when parents or c...
In this world there are many types of abuse or neglect that aren’t always noticed and no one really talks about. We never notice that there are many different types of abuse because we do think that it is so bad that we don’t want to look into it. Social workers specialize in removing the children from the home because they have these things in their lives. Some parents would never dream of abusing their children, and some would never call it abuse. There were several different types of abuse present in the book The Glass Castle, even evidence that the children should be removed from the home.
Due to the presence of structural inequality, Sonia went through emotional and mental distress throughout her high school career. The structural inequality in Sonia’s life was the plethora of discriminatory remarks or setbacks she encountered because she was a lower socioeconomic minority. One key example is when she explains how she felt and was treated during her high school life. She attended a Catholic High School that served underprivileged children of Irish and Italian immigrants. Sonia has been raised with little to no expectations for higher education. At her school, the notion of higher education for the students was already exceeding their parents’ expectations and would make them extremel...
In the story Jubilee by Kirstin Valdez Quade A young very bright Latin American woman, Andrea, struggles with feeling like she’s been accepted in today’s society despite all of her achievements. These feelings tend to peak and turn negative whenever she’s around the family of her father’s lifelong employer, the Lowells, and in particularly their daughter Parker. Although the Lowells, as a whole seem to love Andrea and her family, she finds that their success and good fortune directly correlates to her family’s second rate citizenship. This story reveals that obsession with being accepted as an equal can be an ever increasing stressor that can severely damage a child’s identity, social skills and ultimately lead to misplaced resentment and
Lareau’s main argument in the text is that when children grow up in certain environments, parents are more likely to use specific methods of child rearing that may be different from other families in different social classes. In the text, Lareau describes how she went into the home of the McAllisters and the Williams, two black families leading completely different lives. Ms. McAllister lives in a low income apartment complex where she takes care of her two children as well as other nieces and nephews. Ms. McAllister never married the father of her two children and she relies on public assistance for income. She considers herself to be a woman highly capable of caring for all the children yet she still struggles to deal with the stress of everyday financial issues. The Williams on the other hand live in a wealthier neighborhood and only have one child. Mr. W...
Instead of loving and caring for her baby, and forgetting about Danny, she became worse than him. Rodriguez presents many aspects of the minority class that live in the United States, specifically the South Bronx. Even though the cases presented in Rodriguez’s short stories are difficult to mellow with, they are a reality that is constant in many lives. Everyday someone goes through life suffering, due to lack of responsibility, lack of knowledge, submission to another entity or just lack of wanting to have a better life. People that go through these situations are people who have not finished studying, so they have fewer opportunities in life.
The job of a child welfare worker appears to be a demanding profession that promotes the child’s safety, but also strengthens the family organization around them in order to successfully raise the children. This child welfare workers work in the system known as the Child Protective Services whose initiative is to protect the overall welfare of the child. The short novel From the Eye of the Storm: the Experiences of a Child Welfare Worker by Cynthia Crosson-Tower demonstrates the skills necessary to deal with the practice of social work along with both its challenges and its happy moments. The novel consists of some of the cases involving Tower’s actual career in social work. In reading the book, I was able to experience some of the actual cases in which children dealt with physical and mental abuse from their families that caused them to end up within the system. Also, some of these children had issues in adapting to foster and adoptive families based on the issues they faced earlier in life. As we have learned earlier in the course, the violence that a child experiences early in life has an overall affect on the person they become as they grow into adulthood. When children deal with adverse childhood experiences, they are at a higher risk for abusing drugs and/or alcohol, increased likelihood of abusing their own child or spouse, higher rates of violent and nonviolent criminal behavior, along with several other issues throughout their lifespan.
he said. ‘It's all kind of mixed up in my mind,’ said Hazel. ‘Forget sad things,’ said George.” (paragraphs 78-93). This shows that the characters are being subjected to oppression because we see that the parents are unable to process the death of their child due to having government-issued devices implanted into
By witnessing the events through Sylvia's eyes, readers can grasp the injustices she faces and the challenges she must overcome. This point of view on the topic of socioeconomic inequality speaks directly to readers who may not have firsthand experience with poverty. By presenting the story from Sylvia's perspective, Bambara invites readers to confront the realities of socioeconomic inequality and consider its implications for individuals and society. Children and adolescents from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to experience the effects of socioeconomic disparities on academic achievement. This is based on evidence from Rosen (2018) that indicates that children, and adolescents from lower socioeconomic backgrounds tend to perform less academically compared to those from higher socioeconomic backgrounds.
When people grow up in rough conditions it can be very difficult for them to turn their lives around for the better. There are countless stories of people growing up with a history of rape, assault and other various forms of abuse and it being very hard for them to turn their lives around. Alice Walker, the author of the novel The Color Purple, experienced many hardships in her life that she eventually overcame. Similarly, the protagonist in her novel, Celie, grew up with physical and mental abuse starting from a young age. She was raped by her Stepfather and even when she was placed in a marriage, the abuse did not stop.