Low birthweight babies are at greater risk of blindness, deafness, brain damage, and even death”(Hyde 56). Taking this into consideration, homeless children’s academic performance is hindered because of their poor cognitive development and the circumstances of their homelessness, including constant mobility. Math, reading, spelling, and vocabulary tests are the tests that homeless children most often struggle to succeed on and likely result in being held back a year in school(Hart-Shegos 3). This can be seen in Dicey’s Song through Maybeth’s character and the difficulty she has to prosper in school. Maybeth continually struggles to learn to read and
They don’t want to be homeless but that’s their current situation in their escape” (Schanes, Christine). More families go through being homeless in the United States than any other Industrialized nation. Typically a homeless family is made up with a single mother and two younger children. 51% of the children who go through being homeless are under the age of five years old. Domestic violence is common among the youth that have and are experiencing being homeless.
Social impacts – families bear the brunt of the misery caused by AIDS because those who fall ill become unable to work, forcing family members to care for them rather than producing food or income. Families are also subject to discrimination if they have members who are HIV-positive, often facing reduced access to publicly available social and economic
Homelessness can have a devastating effect on children. Homeless children are hungry and sick more often, and worry about their family’s situation and future. Even though it’s extremely hard to estimate the amount of homeless children, about 1.4 million students students in the U.S were homeless at the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year. As expected, homeless children and youth are difficult to count because their living situations frequently change. Some have tried to estimate the extent of the homeless problem in the United States using many methods but they all have their limitations.
Two parent households in minorities’ communities are rare. Most of America’s children are raised by one parent. There are many direct issues to family impact and juvenile delinquency. One of family structures with delinquency is the single-parent families and their broken homes. The mass media shows negative coverage of poor minorities’ crime communities.
“Today, more than 23 million American children live in a single-parent household (“State Divorce Laws”). Many children have watched their parents go through a divorce. It can be very hard experience for children to go through. Some researchers have suggested that not only the divorce itself, but the tensions between the parents have a harmful impact on children. Children who experience divorce are also more likely to have social or pathological problems as they grow up.
For instance, a child with low self- esteem can feel miserable participating in sports However, parents need to pay attention of themselves of how hard they are their pressuring their children. Parents need to realizes they have important role of their child 's life. The passion you see in parents who push their children in sports is great but how are their children handling it. Children should enjoy sports, but not have deal with their guardian constantly criticizing their performance, struggling to have good relationships with their parent, and struggling
Perhaps the parents could have pulled their child out of that school to prevent further damage, but things are easier say than done. Bullying is something I worry my own son will have to deal with in the future, but if we are lucky, hopefully he will not have to deal with it. To be honest, after watching the video it did saddened me and the same time in made me feel upset. It saddened me because I know both the parents and school administrators
This leads to a child to want to transition. Parents will automatically take action because of this. Once family drama clears up, the child will forget all about their confusion. Some teens are apparently becoming transgender just to fit in (Hodges 1). It is 2018 and it's now alright to be different.
Social problems include parental guidance, access to government grant, peer pressure, substance abuse, poverty, job marketing and education. Most teenagers do not have enough information on sexuality and contraceptives. Teenagers engaging in unprotected sexual intercourse lead to unwanted teenage pregnancy which is a serious social and health problem. About half of all South African teenagers aged between 15 and 19 reported having had sex. Teenage pregnancy is considered as one major distraction to the success of many girls’ education.
Furthermore, LGBT individuals are more than twice as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to report in some way that they have suicidal ideations (Mereish p.1). There are several other intersectional factors such as income, education level, HIV status, and family acceptance that affect how likely a LGBT person is to commit or ideate suicide (Mereish
People within this community who have not been exposed to an accepting environment typically engage in risky sexual activity. For example, sixteen percent of gay and bisexual young men between the age fifteen and twenty-two have a prevalence of HIV and AIDS because many people within this demography do not use condoms. Since many homeless transgendered youth are either willingly live their homes or are forced out by their families, more than fifty percent of these kids turn to prostitution to get the resources need to survive, and unfortunately the likelihood of rape occurring is increased. Lesbian and bisexual young females between the ages thirteen and eighteen are twice as report pregnancy because they are unlikely to use a condom compared to heterosexual teenage females (Bridges, par. 12). Many of these behaviors and risk of sexual diseases follow them into
“Missing in Interaction”, written by Myra and David Sadker, is an article to discuss why girls are invisible in schools. With the studies in elementary schools, the authors conclude that “gender segregation is a major contributor to female invisibility”. Teachers would like to spend more time and attention on male students because they are full of vitality and creativity; whereas, teachers only say OK to female students since they do not care about girls’ achievement on academic. In their minds, a woman is hard to be an excellent scientist or engineering even though female students’ scores are better than male students’. It is a kind of gender discrimination, because female students are under a variety of psychological implications that
For families that are not intact, adolescents turn towards gangs because that seems more like a family than what they have at home. These adolescents are seeking for the feeling of a family. A recent American study of over 1700 youths found that adolescents growing up in a single-parent or step-parent family often feel estranged and consequently drift into drug use and abuse (Muehlenberg,
Veterans with PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) have a high risk of becoming homeless. Homelessness is cause by drug and alcohol dependencies, the economy and veterans who suffers from PTSD or other forms of mental illness. When one parent or both parents lose their jobs, it is a domino effect. About 1.4 million students were