Feral Child Case Study

Some argue that the Foster Care system is ineffective and causes more harm than good. Children are traumatized from being moved home to home and never feel a sense of belonging. Being in the system can cause emotional, social, and life skill problems that can affect a child future. Many studies have shown that kids who are in Foster Care develop emotional, social and life skill problems that will affect them long-term, that will cause problems in their future as an adult. Some may often not be able to learn the basic life skills that will help them as a functional citizen in society.

As Karl Marx famously said “[People] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past." Likewise, the foundation that affected Baby’s development was fractured prior to her birth. Baby was born in an unstable and derelict environment, paired with minimal parental support from a heroin addicted father, which hindered her childhood development. This significantly affected the choices she made -- especially during the formative years of twelve and thirteen years old. Consequently, her understanding of social and moral values deviated from societal norms.

Neither John nor Jennie pay attention to the speaker and her journaling. In the 1890s and before, postpartum depression had never been taken seriously because women were viewed as too emotional and delicate. Joan Busfield supports this theory with her charts of how many people were admitted into mental hospitals, who were mostly around childbearing age. Sara Harkness writes about women’s emotions and how they are affected before and after childbirth. Verta Taylor discusses the sociological aspect of mental illness, which can connect to postpartum depression.

New parents are hard to accept, especially when the child has been passed home to home. These attachment issues may restrict the child from moving forward in their lives and excelling in the new environment provided (Robin). The lack of stability in the system is only setting up the children up for failure, according to Stone, “we treated foster children as if they were our own, yet many of them never felt as if they were.” It is difficult for young children and adolescents to comprehend the separation of their parents let alone the process of moving to multiple foster homes while under the guardianship of the state. Other children mask their hesitation at being attached to a family by letting others see only what they want to see. The children are attached, but only on a “superficial level” (Robin).

In “Good Country People,” by Flannery O’Connor, the protagonist’s internal struggle with her identity stems from both an undiagnosed mental disorder and a lack of parental guidance since her traumatic accident. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) causes 32-year-old Joy Hopewell to be a perpetual teenager, which affects her relationships as an adult. In addition, Joy’s mother's parenting style was based off of pity from the accident resulting in an absence of guidance during Joy’s formative years. As a teenager, Joy gets accustomed to receiving unsolicited pity from everyone, which burdens her later in life. Thus, by being pitied, Joy expresses discontent with her life by acting out in a rebellious state.

Baby was raised in an unstable and derelict environment, paired with the absence of familial support, which crippled her childhood development. Baby’s moral contradiction and personal integrity was fueled by the stigma she encountered from her social networks. Consequently, her understanding of social and moral values deviated from societal norms. I. How did the environment, in which Baby was raised, affected her well being?

Jade Mimoso 9/10/15 Argumentative Essay 1 Do you think that Juvenile Justice Centers are beneficial for troubled teens? Well, they actually aren’t beneficial at all. I don’t think that they are beneficial because, some centers don’t help the troubled teens get on track, the center doesn’t have the same educational standards as regular schooling, and most of the kids that get out are still troubled. Let me explain why. For Starters, the Juvenile Justice center doesn’t help some of the troubled teens.

What stood out in the one of the video is how socialization is very important to human growth and development. Acknowledging that there are crucial periods in a child’s life that can effect their future personal development. In the video, this Gene Wiley was isolated for many years and te isolation stagger her social development. She was years late in numerous critical milestones most children develop. This extreme social isolation was so immoral the girl lack the ability to communicate.

Unfortunately she was born with grievous brain impairment. It was discovered that her brain impairment had no chance of improving. Due to her impairment, Ashley had tremendous difficulty doing almost anything over than breathing. While Ashley’s life was destined for hardship since the beginning, her parents sought as much ease as possible

Due to racism, the cycle experienced by their parents repeats with them, as they experience poor opportunities to education, subsequently growing up into disadvantage adults with little access to health. Furthermore, it has also negatively influenced their mental wellbeing as youth suicide incidence which has exploded in the last decades. Instead of getting better with time, it had gotten worse as in 1990s, not one single aboriginal person was reported to die from suicide, however, recent in Alice Spring hospital, five separate cases of young aboriginally people were submitted who made serious attempts to end their lives . As evident, the quality of health is ever decreasing,

M., Jones, D.J., Kincaid, C Y., Cuellar, J., & Parent, J.M. 2012) Single mother is unable to provide her children with a strong family foundation or family values; this indirectly causes psychological effect on both the mothers and children. Statistics show that Office of National Statistics shows that children raised by single parents is high chances of suffering from mental health conditions as they would if they were staying with married parents (Adkison-Johnson, C 2015). In most cases, Single black mothers tend to isolate themselves from the world that in results effects the children and they do the same. The negative influence from being isolated for the children effects in their growing stage, which makes him/her, reserved personality (Gonzalez, M., Jones D., & Parent, J 2014.)

This creates a whirlwind of problems for Holden, convincing the reader that “Holden is clearly flawed . . . (Bickmore and Youngblood 254)” His failure to reflect upon his poor choices, such as his failure to study and lack of motivation, can be seen as the birthplace from which many of his problems spring, leading to his pessimistic

Claudia, who had a lot of emotional support from her family didn’t show any signs of less-than-good mental health. Holden, however, wasn’t always supported enough and as a result, his mental health was not very good, he got the help he needed. Pecola was in a very unfortunate situation, she was neglected totally by her parents, she was raped and impregnated by her father at a very young age and lost the baby, which caused her to be extremely mentally unstable and no one ever really tried to help her. This is proof that children need support to have decent mental

Mothers being incarcerated has become more prevalent in todays society. With this being said, many children are being left behind at home with no mother figure around. This study examines how the amount of time a mother is in prison influences the relations the parent and child. The author analyzed almost ten thousand adolescent children and their relationship to their mother and social life. The the lack of communication between the mother and child has been found to set the child up for failure in the future.

Special-ed classes in a way sink children with autism, even more deeply into their own isolated world. Jake was struggling to communicate with his family, and this has been what killed his mom the most. Kristine was so destroyed at the thought that her son wasn 't able to tell her how his day was like, or how he would never respond to the “good night , my baby angel”(53) comments she would tell him every night before he went to bed. Kristine was determined to fix her son. She sat down with him everyday trying to get him ready for kindergarten.