Of course it is not surprising that when children are exposed to violence at a young age they are likely to be very affected by what they witnessed. The kids are going to be affected by the event(s) they were forced into seeing, probably for life. Now we all know, that this early exposure may cause these kids to become criminals or as adults. Also not surprising is that being exposed to more and more bad events then the kids carry even more ‘weight’ throughout their lives. I think it’s pretty bad when this article was published in 2017, but we still apparently need more studies as to how victimization/violence and risks are related. I am surprised that the writers even mentioned that it’s possible that being exposed to violence, etc. can actually increase resiliency, basically having a positive impact on a child’s life. Children are most like their primary caregivers because this is where they are probably going to get either positive or negative exposure. It makes a huge impact on the child’s overall health and even how healthy they will be throughout their entire lives. The three parts of good adolescent relationships seem to be lacking some more key parts. I would add; security- to have a safe environment everywhere they are, and exposure- as to what their environment actually consists of. I would add to the safety aspect that both the home and all other locations visited need to be safe. I agree with the components of the stability aspect, but would add the stability of quality nutrition, etc. I agree with the nurturing aspect as well as this is a child by child basis as to what is needed and age related. The thing that is out of any parent or caregivers control is what a child is exposed to at school especially bullying aka the emotional abuse the writer talks about. I question the validity of the NatSCEV because I can anticipate that most kids would be afraid to admit that they are abused or have suffered and endured abuse. Also how trustworthy can a babies caregiver be if they quite frankly are the ones freaking abusing the child!? It also is not a very long or expansive study, having only run a couple of months; it also neglects to provide a number of children that data was collected on. Otherwise the study seems to have been a decent and very through based on the questions it needed to answer. I disagree when it says that lots of moves are associated with chaotic family context as I know more people than you can count that have moved more times than you can count that are doing just fine. Including kids that were shuttled not only from state to state, but rather from continent to continent. It just is not accurate whatsoever, or at least the 99% majority turned out fine and this article covers that 1% I guess. In the article it mentions that violence can affect a child’s development, but I’d like to have them explain as to what exactly it mainly affects pertaining to development wise. I would assume that it doesn’t make kids stupid or disabled. I am surprised that the older age groups of kids are more likely to experience violence towards them at home because it would seem that they would be smarter and trying to avoid things that cause people to be abusive towards them. I think we have a long ways to go with how we assist children that have been abused. I think our justice system needs to be more accepting of the fact that not all abuse leaves a visible mark. Fireboy123 NDirish123
Yes it is not surprising that children who are exposed to violence and may be victims are the ones who are going to be doing juvenile acts. I agree that if the child is exposed to violence I don’t think it will help the child, unless they are meaning that the child sees this violence and then they want to make sure that they do not turn into their parents and abuse and fight with others. If parents are loving and caring at home, but the child goes to school how is the parent suppose to know what is going on unless the child tells them. They may be afraid to tell their parents at the fear of getting beat up even worse the next time. We need to make sure that anywhere a child goes they are getting the care and love they need from adults who care for them. Illini123
Reading that when children get exposed to violence at an early age they are more likely to commit violent acts is something we have been talking about for a while in class and I feel this is one of the main reason children do juvenile acts at younger ages now a days. I know that we can not always get the child out of a home where parents are fighting and beating on each other, but we need to start having something that can help these children and make sure they do not follow in their parents steps. If children are in a home where the parents are fighting, most of the time the child will not have friends come over or the parents will not let them go over to any parents house because they may tell someone about the fighting. This could lead the child to never learning to socialize with others and can cause much more harm to the child. If children experience most of the world through relationships with parents and caregivers, then if those parents or caregivers are neglecting or beating them and we take the child away, then what type of relationship will this child develop not having a mom or dad. If we do nothing and leave the child with those parents, then most of the time what we see is that the child will begin doing juvenile acts and then most likely start committing more violent crimes as they get older. If children who do not feel safe at home go to school or maybe play some sort of sport, how will they react will they still feel unsafe or will they feel safe knowing that they are away from their parents who may be abusing them. If children who live with parents who can not keep a job and are doing drugs and never have any money for food, then these children may have to be forced into stealing for their food or their parents may ask them to go steal so they can get money for their drug problem. If children can not feel safe at home and they never live in a stable household, they may think that every other family is like this and then they will just want to keep living this life even into adulthood when they may have children. If this is all the child knows and grows up to be like their parents all they are going to want to do is abuse their child and fight with their significant other and this pattern will just keep going on and on until we can find a way to stop this. Also if we have parents who are willing to give up anything for their children and want their child to succeed we have seen that even with parents who are living paycheck to paycheck as long as they are willing to love their child and give them needs then the child will have a better chance of living a better life and being able to support their own families. Illini123
Agree on the fact that we have beat to death the subject of how violence affects kids. I was hoping this article would provide a different analysis, rather than constantly the same stuff. I don't know whether to believe that kids are now committing crimes earlier than before now like you said. I feel like kids in a violent situation don't have friends over just due to the fact that it is embarrassing to them by the fact that their parents fight 24,7, etc. I don't think that the kid will never socialize with others, rather they will just be disabled at doing so. I'm more worried about how these kids turn out later in life if they decide to have kids of their own. That's where the cycle can either start/continue or hopefully STOP. the justice system needs to identify kids before they report or get sent in for being abused. If that was just possible, just somehow. We need more of the parents that you are talking about, the ones that do really care. If only every parent could be that way, we would never have the global child abuse/vision of violence that exists. Fireboy123
Part 1 of NDIrish Experiencing significant adversity in childhood, such as being exposed to violence and victimization, has damaging effects on a child’s general well-being and lifelong health. Developmental, behavioral, and biological research has clearly demonstrated the link between early exposure to stressful events and conditions and impaired neurological, physiological, and psycho social systems that contribute to a wide array of mental and physical health problems. Research suggests the need for a more comprehensive approach that considers the intersecting effects of multiple forms of victimization and stressors. This shows just how damaging a bad and unsafe home for someone not just a kid but anyone just how damaging it is and how poorly the effects are. The harmful health effects of childhood exposures to serious adversities, such as physical abuse and neglect, witnessing domestic violence, parental substance abuse, and maternal depression, can accumulate over time. On the other hand, social relationships and environments that are secure, supportive, and relatively free of threat can promote healthy child development and encourage adaptive responses to adverse childhood experiences. To help make the environment better for these kids we must first have a very knowledgeable and firm understanding of all that is happening and how it affects who is in the home. Children and youth experience much of their world through relationships with parents and caregivers. These relationships are fundamental to the healthy development of physical, emotional, social, behavioral, and intellectual capacities. With these relationships being so important in the development of a child and stays with them forever if they are around bad things now the rate of them doing the same bad things goes up in their future because to them that is what they know to be right. If we can stop it here and help save and preserve these kids growing up in these bad environments it will do society a favor and will lower the crime rate in the coming future if we can continue to preserve these kids until their better judgement takes over. Each of the three dimensions of safe, stable, nurturing relationships represents a significant aspect of the social and physical environments that protect children and promote their optimal healthy development. Each can be thought of as being on a relational and environmental continuum.
part 2 of ndirish First safety represents the absence of threat, neglect, and violence. In all safety refers to the extent to which children are free from fear and harm within their social and physical environments. Acts of physical abuse, child neglect, harsh or hostile parenting practices, and family drug and alcohol abuse, for example, represent markers of an unsafe family environment. Stability refers to consistency and predictability in the child’s environment. Frequent residential moves, household changes, inconsistent childcare, and life events that create volatile or stressful family conditions, such as divorce and job loss, can threaten stability. An unpredictable and chaotic family environment can diminish a child’s sense that the world is a trustworthy place, dependable, and a fair place to live. Nurturing is characterized by availability, sensitivity, and warmth in responding to a child’s needs. Nurturing relationships contribute to a child’s self-esteem, confidence, social competencies, and emotional development. Each one of these roles are very important for anyone and everyone and if you are missing one or all you are missing a very key part in your development. With all these three key steps being linked together like a chain if you take one out you have just broken the key to success in development. When identifying risky and protective contexts, observers may find that certain components of safety, stability, and nurturing often cluster together or co-occur. However, a better understanding of how different aspects of safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments are related to one another and generate other components of risk and protection is needed. Fireboy123 NDIrish123.
It’s sad but not surprising to hear that kids these days are exposed to violence at such a young age. This factor shows that Developmental, behavioral, and biological research as been proven to be linked between the early exposure to the stressful events. The kids that witness this may become criminals when they get into the teenager/adult ages. I wish there was a way for kids to get out of the homes that have violence in them so they don’t have to witness everything that may go on in their home. I understand that they can’t save everyone but, there needs to be a program where kids can go talk to someone about what is happening at home instead of keeping it all bottled up inside. The important domain involves social interactions, children and youth experience much of their world around their relationships with their parents and or caretakers. The relationships they have are really important to their physical, emotional, and or social behavior. If there world is based on just violence and their relationships aren’t normal then the kid is gonna end up just like there parents are. Kids should have a backbone of safety on there shoulders. The absence of a threat or neglect refers to the extent to which children are free from fear or harm as it states in the article. Acts of physical abuse, child neglect, and harsh or hostile parenting represent makers of an unsafe environment. Kids need to be able to be taken out of this situation and be moved to a better environment where they can grow up with out of the harshness around them. It is really sad to hear that from birth to age four that experienced sexual or physical abuse in the last year. You would imagine that people would notice if someone has been abused and get them out of that environment but, maybe I’m wrong with our world now and days. All the evidence behind this proves that kids that grow up in violent households have damaging effects on health development. In the article it states that it isn’t all about the house though, some kids may feel unsafe at school to. I understand a school has tons of kids to worry about but, they should also be able to help a student that does not feel safe around his or her environment. As with that, suicides would not happen as much if there would be a great system for the kids to go to if they are not really feeling safe. It’s already bad enough that they have to worry about their home life, I bet for a fact that it could be even worse at school for them and I know that no kid should ever have to go through that. One big thing that I question is the validity of the NatSCEV because as I would imagine no kid would want to talk about the abuse they have suffered through. Another thing is how trustworth be if a caregiver that is watching a baby could be if they are the ones following through on giving the abuse? To be it seems a little bit ridiculous. Overall I think that kids that grow up in these homes have a more likely chance of become criminals in their adult lifetime if they have gone through all the abuse and could not get out of it. I believe this because they have been around it all there life that they have no escape route to go and they lean towards the violence that they have witnessed. I think that they should always have a way to get out of there home if it keeps happening. Hopefully in the near future we work and try our best to make sure things like this don’t slip out of hands and we can make sure kids in bad homes and bad school environments can find help when needed. Smile123
I agree with what you are saying in this post, many children these days are exposed to excessive amounts of violence not only out in the real world but also in their very own homes. These children subject to physical, mental, and sometimes even sexual abuse by their own family members. These types of abuse can be very detrimental to a child's development especially when they are younger. They can also be turned to a life a crime, such as with the victim-offender affect. I agree that these children should be taken out of their abusive environments and put into an environment that will help them grow and learn positively. An environment that will teach them to be better citizens and how to treat people the right way. We as a society need to take steps in order to help stop these types of abuses that are plaguing our children and young adults in our country and also worldwide. Pack123
During the course of the semester we have talked a lot about how when children get exposed to violence at an early age they are more likely to commit violent acts is something we have been talking about for a while in class and I feel this is one of the main reason children do juvenile acts at younger ages now a days. Being exposed to different types of violence such as an abusive parent, watching a parent abuse the other, or even in the worst cases, being sexually abused by a parent or close family member, can put a lot of stress on a child. These stressors can often lead to a child being delinquent, especially in the case of those being sexually abused. These types of children often run away from home to escape the abuse and often turned to a life of crime wherever they may find themselves after they run away. If children experience most of the world through relationships with parents and caregivers, then if those parents or caregivers are neglecting or beating them and we take the child away, then what type of relationship will this child develop not having a mom or dad. This creates a big divide in the child’s life more often times than not, and it can be very detrimental to the child. This separation can often times lead to a child becoming a delinquent, maybe not severely but a delinquent nonetheless. Another unfortunate circumstance of these situations is the victim-offender affect. This affect states that when a child is a victim, it can often lead them down a path that brings them to being an offender, such as when a girl would run away from a sexually abusive household only to become a hoe for a pimp in whichever city she ends up in. This is an extreme example but it shows just how tragic the victim-offender affect can be. Children experience basically all of their everyday lives by watching how other people act around each other. Each of the three dimensions of safe, stable, nurturing relationships represents a significant aspect of the social and physical environments that protect children and promote their optimal healthy development. The part of these relationships is making sure that it is a safe relationship. the absence of threat, neglect, and violence. In all safety refers to the extent to which children are free from fear and harm within their social and physical environments. Experiencing any type of physical or mental abuse can be devastating to child and will affect how they maintain and create relationships with other people all throughout their lives. Stability refers to consistency and predictability in the child’s environment. Frequent residential moves, household changes, inconsistent childcare, and life events that create volatile or stressful family conditions, such as divorce and job loss, can threaten stability. Stability is key to helping a child develop because it takes many stressors out of the equation for the child. The third and final element to establishing relationships for juveniles is Nurturing, which is characterized by availability, sensitivity, and warmth in responding to a child’s needs. Nurturing relationships contribute to a child’s self-esteem, confidence, social competencies, and emotional development. If a child is not given all the materials that they need to survive or even just the attention that a young child needs, the child is being neglected and it can have a very negative effect on the child and possibly even cause death to the child. These three elements are crucial to the growth and development of every child. Pack123
I completely agree that children witnessing deviant behavior and experiencing neglect and abuse because of criminal parents is devistating to their development. I believe there is only a small percent of children that come out of environments like that and manage to make something of themselves other than just following in their parents footsteps and becoming criminals like that. It was told to us that bad, or criminal, behavior is learned and that is very true. Where else would kids learn to act that way if they weren't learning it from their parents or the people they are around in their everyday life. Without good influences around them to give them good examples of how to live properly, the child is definitely more bound to follow whatever bad behavior they experience more than the good. I grew up in a home with a deviant older sister and mostly absent parents. It was surprising to a lot of people that I didn’t end up becoming deviant like my sister because she was always doing horrible things and my parents were never around. I just took her behavior as a way not to act in my life and I learned differently than her. I suppose I was part of that rare percentage of kids that didn’t follow in the deviant behavior. Sadly, not everyone is as lucky or smart, as we have well studied. SomethingProfound123
Part 1: Did you know that not all children want or react well to having a safe, stable, nurturing environment or relationships with people? I found that to be an interesting fact considering the whole point of this blog was about safe, stable, nurturing environments for children and how the lack there of can cause delinquency in their futures. When I read the section that starts off with the sentence, “although most children enjoy safe, stable, nurturing relationships with their caregivers, not all do, and evidence suggests the likelihood of having positive caregiver relationships varies according to sociodemographic factors,” I knew that was going to be a very interesting section. To me, it raises the question of why would a child not want to live in that kind of environment and would actually prefer to live with the negativity? I can only imagine that they would want live that way because the parents wouldn’t care as much about what the child would do, which in a sense allots them more freedom than they really need at their ages. If no one is telling them that what they are doing is wrong, or that they need to focus on things like education or hygiene. We all know exactly how relunctant kids can be in learning the important things in life and how they sort of need a push by their parents to get them to the point where they actually see how important it all is. Without the parents to give them that push, the kid kind of gets a free-for-all attitude about themselves and life and often times, if someone tries to be a caregiver to them, they feel restricted or constricted and like they are losing their freedom. That sort of feeling pushes kids to act out or seclude themselves within their own minds and not want anyone to try to help them. Though, while this kind of feeling can cause them to fall into delinquency, there are more problems than this with lack of safe, nurturing, stable environments or relationships. When children don’t start out their life with those good relationships or environments, it starts them on the path to delinquency. As the article has shown us, kids that are within the negative relationships or enviroment’s, usually end up following the worst examples of how to act. Usually, if they have criminal parents or criminal friends or family, they don’t have good enough influences to show them how to properly live their lives as model citizens. They watch as their father or mother commit crimes or maybe how they will fight with each other in front of the child. It is just as bad of an influence on their mental state as anything and what is worse is when the parents turn on their own children and take out their frustrations on them instead. It turns into child abuse which pushes the child further into the path of criminal behavior and often times that kind of behavior they witness is shown again to their own children when they have children themselves. It is a vicious circle but it happens none the less when a safe, stable, nurturing environment is not available or the relationships are not present. Eventually their own children would follow in their footsteps and become criminals themselves too if they are not directed off the path that their parents unknowingly put them on. Let’s face it, not too many abusive or criminal parents stop to think that what they are doing may be having negative results on their child. SomethingProfound123
Part 2: Then again, when you read further to the end of this article, it talks about how a lack, or shortage, of safe, nurturing, stable relationships usually only effects older adolescents and children living in nontraditional family structures. I always thought that it would influence the younger children more because they are more easily influenced and persuaded. However, when I read about it, I came to the conclusion that the reason it effects the older kids more is because they are old enough to fully understand and can try to retaliate themselves if their parents tried to turn around on them. Older kids have the probably of getting kicked out of the home all together and living on the street where they have a direct, first-hand experience with the criminals on the street. They would learn new ways to be deviant and sometimes, they even get picked up by the police, which often makes their home lives even worse. Their parents would get them from the jail and then when they would get home, would start screaming and taking out their frustrations on the child instead of trying to find ways to discipline them so they don’t do it again. It would appear, according to the article that the younger children do not experience as much physical or sexual abuse as adolescent teenagers do. I believe it stated, fewer of the youngest children, from birth to age four, experienced physical or sexual abuse, compared to the other age groups. The oldest age group, which is ages fourteen to seventeen, was more likely to experience harsh parenting that the younger age groups. For the most part, boys and girls did not differ in the safety indicators, and researchers found few differences between children of lower and higher socioeconomic standing. There is evidence that violence, abuse, and other forms of major adversity have damaging effects on health and development. To me, that just makes sense. If the parents are drinking or are drug users and then get violent with their children, it can only do more damage than good. I never had to deal with my parents using drugs or with them being overly violent, but I did have to deal with them being absent while my older sister was doing drugs and being violent with me. It didn’t make for the easiest environment for me to live in because while my parents were not being the ones to cause all the problems, they were not present to prevent my sister from doing all of it. In a sense, I feel that is just as bad as being placed in a negative environment with your parents. I dealt with the lack of nurturing and stable relationships with my family. That is interesting because the article stated that researchers have already shown that children who experience one type of victimization often experience other types as well. That reminds me of the cooccurrence of mental health issues that I just learned about in the mental health first aid class where if you have experienced one mental health problem you are more than likely to have another hidden one. Needless to say, a child that has experienced this kind of lifestyle is bounded to be messed up in more than one way. After reading this article and studying about the influences that families and relationships can have on a child, I can honestly say that when I finally have my child, I plan to give them whole hearted, genuine life with a caring, loving family and a healthy environment for them to grow up in without fear of being abused. SomethingProfound123
Pt 1 Some interesting things I saw in this article were that the three dimensions of safe, stable, nurturing relationships represent a big aspect of the social and environments that protect children and promote their optimal healthy development. The safety of a child represents the absence of threat or neglect. Physical abuse, neglect, hostile parenting, and drug and alcohol abuse, represent markers of an unsafe family environment. The family environment should be the safest place for the child and also the most influential. Mostly everything a child learns come from the home and also from school. Next, the article talks about stability. Stability meaning the consistency and predictability in the child’s environment. Frequently moving, household changes, inconsistent childcare, and life events that create stress. These events could be a divorce or loss of a job. In this type of environment, it’s like nothing goes right. It’s always something that slows you down and stresses you out over something that you can’t control. When it comes to nurturing, it could be maybe the most important of them all. Nurturing is showing the child love, emotion, showing the child that you care and giving them that feeling warmth. Nurturing can range from warm and supportive to hostility and rejection. That’s why I feel it is so important because it could be good or bad. It’s really whatever the parent portrays to the child. Also the article says that, emotional abuse reduces nurturing relationship qualities, whereas supportive interactions, adequate monitoring, social involvement increase nurturing. Those three dimensions overlap, but each represents central and distinct aspects of a child’s relationships and environments that are critical for his or her healthy development. Some statistics that were in the article were the percentage of children and youth who scored high and low on each individual indicator of the safety, stability and nurturing domain for the total sample and across select demographic characteristics. For example, children from birth to age 4 experienced physical or sexual abuse in the past year (2 %), compared to other age groups(5-9 5%, 10-13 5%, and 10-17 5%). The group that was more likely to experience harsh parenting was ages 14-17. I think at this age, the adolescents are going through many changes in life and really try to cope with them the way they want. This is when they are in high school and things you never did before, may become things that are normal now. I believe that is why this is the harsh parenting group. Adolescents try to do things they are not suppose to be doing and in turn the parents try to stop whatever is going on. It all goes back to the three dimensions safety, stability and nurturing, if these weren’t all there as the child is growing up things can change before you know it. In the conclusion it says that a nationally representative study shows that almost 25% of children 5-15 in the U.S. lived in family environments with only modest levels of safety, stability, and nurturance, while 1 and 15 had consistently low levels across multiple domains. The shortage of SSNR (safe, stable, nurturing relationships) appears to be the most heavily burden older adolescents and children living in a nontraditional family structures. These deficits have crucial implications for the future functioning of these young people. –M24Ninja123, DC?123
Pt 2 This article goes over the SSNR (Safe, stable, nurturing relationships) of adolescents and children identified by a 1st time study. The OJJDP (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention) with the CDC conducted a survey lead by then Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder on the relationships on a SSNR and exposure to witnessing violence. The process involved randomly calling 31 cell phone numbers through random digit dialing (RDD techniques) and then using address based sample (ABS) to another 750 homes. They sent letters to the 750 homes to ask for participation and approximately half were cell phone only homes that could represent houses that did not have land lines. The study always started with a caregiver in the house but gets handed off to the children in the 10-17 year range. 9 and under were conducted with the caregiver answering some of the questions. About 40-60% of families were cooperative during the study. The assessment was based on the safety, security, and nurturing making composite scores. Mental health was taken into account using trauma symptom checklist for children. Based on the high and low comparisons it is further broken down based on gender, age groups, family structure (i.e. two parents, parent and a step parent, single, or nonparent), and socioeconomic status. Most of the groups identified that they had a high SSNR roughly 51 percent through 77 percent. On the low end of the SSNR it was 3.3 percent through 14.9 percent self identified. Two biological parents appeared to come out on top for the highest on average with nonparents bringing in the rear. Non parents also seemed to have children with higher exposure to violence than those with one or more parents. Older children (the 14- 17 group) seemed to have lower scores overall which in my opinion shows that they were being more honest with the testing vs. having the guardians more involved with the survey. Males tended to feel more safe than females while females had a marginally higher stability percentage. Over all males appeared to identify a higher SSNR than females. Unsurprising to me the lower socioeconomic status had lower scores in all categories. Looking at the charts it confirms information for me that children with both parents in the picture with a higher social economical status have less exposure to violence than their counterparts. I believe most people think that more social programs can help mitigate the levels that were seen in the survey but I think it’s a problem that will plague all societies no matter how many programs are in place. The numbers show a difference between the groups but there is not a program that can fix both keeping parents together and bring everyone into a higher socioeconomic status. I do believe family education classes could help educate families on how to deal with violence both internal and external but to fund and coordinate would be unfeasible unless handled locally though volunteer missions and through spiritual learning. The biggest problem I see with having 1 in 15 families with low SSNR is children with mental health issues. This adds another hurdle in their life that can lead to juvenile delinquency and later in life a career criminal if not dealt with. I’m a firm believer that if a child with mental disorders has a good SSNR he or she can over come the disability and evolve into a stand up member of society. –M24Ninja123, DC?123
I found interesting was children and youth experience much of their world through relationships with parents and care givers. And that the relationships are fundamental to healthy development of physical, emotional, social, behavioral, intellectual capacities. Which is really true because when growing up you learn things from people that are close to you or your parents. children that are able to know what is what has to be taught right because things can reflect their future behavior. children should have a safe environment when growing up. Actions of neglect, physical harm, harsh or hostile parenting practice plays a part when raising a child. You shouldn’t neglect your child or even harm them because they can grow up and become a delinquent when getting older. Some kids let those type of situation affect them because they may have been physically abused or even verbally abused. In order to keep your child safe, you should always be concerned on what she or he is doing only to make sure everything is alright, never neglecting them showing you really care about them. These are signs that a child may be neglected. The child may not go to school regularly, smell badly and be dirty, tell you that there is no one at home to take care of them, be depressed, show crazy behavior, or use alcohol or drugs. Neglecting a child can mess up a child’s life. Not going to school or even not getting good grades can all be because they aren’t doing good at home or they are really distracted. Also, another thing was the was how kids can get affected when their parents get a divorce. I feel like when that happens the kid feel some type of was because they are so use to their parents being together, them waking to parents every morning. Parents should be alert to signs of distress in their child or children. Young children may react to divorce by becoming more aggressive and uncooperative or by withdrawing. Older children may feel deep sadness and loss. Their schoolwork may suffer and behavior problems are common. As teenagers and adults, children of divorce can have trouble with their own relationships and experience problems with self-esteem. Children will do best if they know that their mother and father will still be their parents and remain involved with them even though the marriage is ending and the parents won't live together. Long custody disputes or pressure on a child to "choose" sides can be particularly harmful for the youngster and can add to the damage of the divorce. Research shows that children do better when parents can minimize conflict and cooperate on behalf of the child. Another interesting thing was in the article it says “Although most children enjoy safe, stable, and nurturing relationships with their caregivers, not all do, and evidence suggests the likelihood of having positive caregiver’s relationship varies according to sociodemographic factors.” Which meaning to me that kids have a difficult time getting use to their environment or even think their parents are just over protective. The early years are when children show personality traits and preferences for what they like and dislike. By planning opportunities with children's unique personality styles in mind, you nurture their positive feelings about themselves. -babyblue123
It’s not hard to believe that children learn and take after their peers and parental figures when growing up. Every child deserves a fair life in a loving home. Of course we don’t pick our families and sometimes we end up in a horrible living conditions and can not control our surroundings. I agree that a child growing up without stability, nurture, or safety they are going to experience mental development issues. A child growing up in a bad environment is going to have a different look at life than a child who experienced life with loving parents. Seeing and always being around violence, alcohol and drug abuse will become the norm for that child. They are not going to understand a different way of life. It’s going to be hard for them to get through everyday life situations like school when they don’t have support. With stability they can’t form loving relationships which make them end up alone and thinking to themselves about things that they don’t have control over. Some kids just let the abuse happen to them because they have no other choice and no chance of escape. It’s heartbreaking because they need the love from someone to change their life. Sunshine123
It is clear that a child exposed to violence at such a young age will experience damage to their well-being and long term health. Without a safe, stable, and nurturing environment how could you expect a child to learn on their own. A child’s mind is not developed enough to comprehend or deal with their own life and living conditions. A huge factor that I believe contributes to a child developing problems later in life is because of lack of nurturing. As stated in this article provided that availability, sensitivity, and warmth in responding to a child’s needs is extremely important. Being ignored and neglected will create horrid thoughts that will build up in a child’s mind. Living in such an unsafe environment and being exposed to abuse in drugs/alcohol and violence can make it a norm for the child. If that’s how the child sees how his parents live, then how come he should be different? He does not know any other way of living or acting so how could one expect the child to take the initiative to be a better person and handle this built up anger in a responsible manner. That is way too much for a child to reflect on and it puts a lot of pressure on them as well. Obviously there is evidence that a child who has been exposed to a positive caregiver is going to turn out negatively compared to other children. There is a lot of evidence to conclude that having someone there that is tentative and caring is going to have a positive outlook on that child because they have someone to relate to and discuss their problems to creating a safe environment for them as well. Other factors besides not having a safe living environment such as moving and not living with a biological parents has an affect on the development of a child’s mind. One thing that stood out to me in this study was that almost 1 and 4 children in the United States lived in family environment with modest level of safety, stability, and nurturance while 1 in 15 had consistently low levels across multiple domains. Those three key factors have the most impact on the children not in traditional families. I couldn’t imagine how I would grow up if my parents weren’t always there for me in a caring/loving fashion. We can’t pick our families in the long run, some children are strong enough to handle those harsh living conditions and still preserve in life. However, that isn’t the case for most and they are going to grow up just like their parents weather they want to or not. Those mental thoughts and their mental development will accumulate over time and mental disorders such as depression can have a long lasted impact on their lives unfortunately. One problem that I feel children experience the most would be “Stability” because both parents could be working and not having time to do things for their child. They aren’t able to partake in after school activities or be with friends because they have to stay home. They are constantly moving they don’t know what to call home or who to make strong connections with because they don’t know how long they can be there with them. They’re not making friendships to help support their family problems. They have no one to rely on and take care of their needs. Life to those children just seem unfair to them and they’ll see no point in trying to be a better person and do good in life. It’s heartbreaking but without a healthy living conditions a child can not enjoy life and see the good in things. Parents are so important to a child’s mental development they are their role models. Sunshine123
The idea that children see and integrate what their parents due into their own thoughts and behaviors is spot on. When children are young they see, hear, and learn from their parental figures more so than anything else and it is imperative that we ensure this is a positive environment for learning and not a hazardous one. If a child grows up in a low rated household for even one of these factors they can be at a serious risk for mental, emotional, and physical health. Furthermore, they may turn to delinquent acts in order to cope or adapt to their rough environments. I was surprised that delinquency was not discussed in great detail during this report but it seems that many of the risk factors described are indeed risk factors for crime in itself. If we want to help fight crime on a nation wide basis we definitely need to focus on child development as well as adult criminal development. This whole philosophy of parent to child behavior sharing reminds me of the phrase, monkey see monkey do. Its that simple, if you want children to become proactive and productive members in society then you need to show them what that is at an early age and continue to do so through adulthood. Ghost123
In the modern-day America children are faced with numerous challenges that must be overcome as they mature into adulthood in order for them to become functioning adults within today's society. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention have administered surveys in recent years in order to analyze the relationships children share with certain attributes or indicators and how those indicators affect the well-being of those children. The three factors that the OJJDP analyzed specifically in this study were safety, stability, and nurturing. The safety aspect represents the child's' proximity to threats and violence both in their household and in their environment. During the surveys administered through the National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence researchers found that there was a direct link with the level of safety a child reported and the level of mental and emotional health for the child later on in life. Furthermore, safety seems to be the most significant influence in determining a child's mental and physical health as they grow into adults. The lower the level of safety during a person’s childhood seemed to provide a lower level of quality social interactions during their later adolescent years as well. Studies also found that gender did not play a significant role at younger ages however socioeconomic levels dramatically effected the level of safety for children. The data shows that the lower a family was on the socioeconomic level; the lower their child's safety rating was. Stability also proved to have a significant impact on a child's well-being although not as much as safety. For the purpose of this report, stability was characterized as the consistency and predictability of a child’s environment and household. The correlations in the data showed the more a child's household was split up the more the child was at risk. This is especially true in cases where a child resides and is taken care of by non-biological care givers. Furthermore, the less supervision a child had the more they felt depressed or suffered from other distresses. The report provided by OJJDP showed that a family’s consisting of two biological parents had the highest level of childcare stability at 88 percent while non-biological caregiver families had the lowest. Ghost123 Part 1
The biggest impact to a child’s stability in relation to household make up appeared to be at the younger ages when children are more dependent on their immediate families for interaction whereas older adolescents were more involved outside of the household. Aside from a child’s household make up, nurturing plays an important role in determining the risk factors for children growing to adulthood. For the purpose of this study nurturing is characterized by the availability and attention a care giver has in responding to a child’s needs. Nurturing relationships with children and their parents directly affects a child’s self-esteem, confidence, and social competencies as they grow older. The range of nurturing levels can go from warm and supportive families to hostile and violent ones. Forms of abuse lower the level of nurturing while supportive interactions and involvement raise the level of nurturing. Studies found that younger children had the lowest levels of emotional abuse while the older adolescents had the highest. Furthermore, the oldest had the least amount of reported supervision while the youngest had the most supervision. This can largely be swayed by the involvement older children have with their community and their lowered reliance on direct family interaction as opposed to younger children. This correlation between supervision and abuse may be an indicator of issues both within the household and possibly within the community as a whole. However, all three factors often share cause and effect relationships with one another. All three categories show that a child’s promising future relies heavily on the environment and support they are provided while growing up. It is imperative that we first ensure the safety of children who may be in harm’s way since it is the greatest risk factor. However, all three factors play a crucial role in determining a child’s well-being and should monitored, and high-risk families should be targeted in order to help those children who may not be able to help themselves. Ghost123 Part 2
Of course it is not surprising that when children are exposed to violence at a young age they are likely to be very affected by what they witnessed. The kids are going to be affected by the event(s) they were forced into seeing, probably for life. Now we all know, that this early exposure may cause these kids to become criminals or as adults. Also not surprising is that being exposed to more and more bad events then the kids carry even more ‘weight’ throughout their lives. I think it’s pretty bad when this article was published in 2017, but we still apparently need more studies as to how victimization/violence and risks are related. I am surprised that the writers even mentioned that it’s possible that being exposed to violence, etc. can actually increase resiliency, basically having a positive impact on a child’s life. Children are most like their primary caregivers because this is where they are probably going to get either positive or negative exposure. It makes a huge impact on the child’s overall health and even how healthy they will be throughout their entire lives. The three parts of good adolescent relationships seem to be lacking some more key parts. I would add; security- to have a safe environment everywhere they are, and exposure- as to what their environment actually consists of. I would add to the safety aspect that both the home and all other locations visited need to be safe. I agree with the components of the stability aspect, but would add the stability of quality nutrition, etc. I agree with the nurturing aspect as well as this is a child by child basis as to what is needed and age related. The thing that is out of any parent or caregivers control is what a child is exposed to at school especially bullying aka the emotional abuse the writer talks about. I question the validity of the NatSCEV because I can anticipate that most kids would be afraid to admit that they are abused or have suffered and endured abuse. Also how trustworthy can a babies caregiver be if they quite frankly are the ones freaking abusing the child!? It also is not a very long or expansive study, having only run a couple of months; it also neglects to provide a number of children that data was collected on. Otherwise the study seems to have been a decent and very through based on the questions it needed to answer. I disagree when it says that lots of moves are associated with chaotic family context as I know more people than you can count that have moved more times than you can count that are doing just fine. Including kids that were shuttled not only from state to state, but rather from continent to continent. It just is not accurate whatsoever, or at least the 99% majority turned out fine and this article covers that 1% I guess. In the article it mentions that violence can affect a child’s development, but I’d like to have them explain as to what exactly it mainly affects pertaining to development wise. I would assume that it doesn’t make kids stupid or disabled. I am surprised that the older age groups of kids are more likely to experience violence towards them at home because it would seem that they would be smarter and trying to avoid things that cause people to be abusive towards them. I think we have a long ways to go with how we assist children that have been abused. I think our justice system needs to be more accepting of the fact that not all abuse leaves a visible mark. Fireboy123 NDirish123
ReplyDeleteYes it is not surprising that children who are exposed to violence and may be victims are the ones who are going to be doing juvenile acts. I agree that if the child is exposed to violence I don’t think it will help the child, unless they are meaning that the child sees this violence and then they want to make sure that they do not turn into their parents and abuse and fight with others. If parents are loving and caring at home, but the child goes to school how is the parent suppose to know what is going on unless the child tells them. They may be afraid to tell their parents at the fear of getting beat up even worse the next time. We need to make sure that anywhere a child goes they are getting the care and love they need from adults who care for them.
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Reading that when children get exposed to violence at an early age they are more likely to commit violent acts is something we have been talking about for a while in class and I feel this is one of the main reason children do juvenile acts at younger ages now a days. I know that we can not always get the child out of a home where parents are fighting and beating on each other, but we need to start having something that can help these children and make sure they do not follow in their parents steps. If children are in a home where the parents are fighting, most of the time the child will not have friends come over or the parents will not let them go over to any parents house because they may tell someone about the fighting. This could lead the child to never learning to socialize with others and can cause much more harm to the child. If children experience most of the world through relationships with parents and caregivers, then if those parents or caregivers are neglecting or beating them and we take the child away, then what type of relationship will this child develop not having a mom or dad. If we do nothing and leave the child with those parents, then most of the time what we see is that the child will begin doing juvenile acts and then most likely start committing more violent crimes as they get older. If children who do not feel safe at home go to school or maybe play some sort of sport, how will they react will they still feel unsafe or will they feel safe knowing that they are away from their parents who may be abusing them. If children who live with parents who can not keep a job and are doing drugs and never have any money for food, then these children may have to be forced into stealing for their food or their parents may ask them to go steal so they can get money for their drug problem. If children can not feel safe at home and they never live in a stable household, they may think that every other family is like this and then they will just want to keep living this life even into adulthood when they may have children. If this is all the child knows and grows up to be like their parents all they are going to want to do is abuse their child and fight with their significant other and this pattern will just keep going on and on until we can find a way to stop this. Also if we have parents who are willing to give up anything for their children and want their child to succeed we have seen that even with parents who are living paycheck to paycheck as long as they are willing to love their child and give them needs then the child will have a better chance of living a better life and being able to support their own families.
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Agree on the fact that we have beat to death the subject of how violence affects kids. I was hoping this article would provide a different analysis, rather than constantly the same stuff. I don't know whether to believe that kids are now committing crimes earlier than before now like you said. I feel like kids in a violent situation don't have friends over just due to the fact that it is embarrassing to them by the fact that their parents fight 24,7, etc. I don't think that the kid will never socialize with others, rather they will just be disabled at doing so. I'm more worried about how these kids turn out later in life if they decide to have kids of their own. That's where the cycle can either start/continue or hopefully STOP. the justice system needs to identify kids before they report or get sent in for being abused. If that was just possible, just somehow. We need more of the parents that you are talking about, the ones that do really care. If only every parent could be that way, we would never have the global child abuse/vision of violence that exists. Fireboy123
DeletePart 1 of NDIrish Experiencing significant adversity in childhood, such as being exposed to violence and victimization, has damaging effects on a child’s general well-being and lifelong health. Developmental, behavioral, and biological research has clearly demonstrated the link between early exposure to stressful events and conditions and impaired neurological, physiological, and psycho social systems that contribute to a wide array of mental and physical health problems. Research suggests the need for a more comprehensive approach that considers the intersecting effects of multiple forms of victimization and stressors. This shows just how damaging a bad and unsafe home for someone not just a kid but anyone just how damaging it is and how poorly the effects are. The harmful health effects of childhood exposures to serious adversities, such as physical abuse and neglect, witnessing domestic violence, parental substance abuse, and maternal depression, can accumulate over time. On the other hand, social relationships and environments that are secure, supportive, and relatively free of threat can promote healthy child development and encourage adaptive responses to adverse childhood experiences. To help make the environment better for these kids we must first have a very knowledgeable and firm understanding of all that is happening and how it affects who is in the home. Children and youth experience much of their world through relationships with parents and caregivers. These relationships are fundamental to the healthy development of physical, emotional, social, behavioral, and intellectual capacities. With these relationships being so important in the development of a child and stays with them forever if they are around bad things now the rate of them doing the same bad things goes up in their future because to them that is what they know to be right. If we can stop it here and help save and preserve these kids growing up in these bad environments it will do society a favor and will lower the crime rate in the coming future if we can continue to preserve these kids until their better judgement takes over. Each of the three dimensions of safe, stable, nurturing relationships represents a significant aspect of the social and physical environments that protect children and promote their optimal healthy development. Each can be thought of as being on a relational and environmental continuum.
ReplyDeletepart 2 of ndirish First safety represents the absence of threat, neglect, and violence. In all safety refers to the extent to which children are free from fear and harm within their social and physical environments. Acts of physical abuse, child neglect, harsh or hostile parenting practices, and family drug and alcohol abuse, for example, represent markers of an unsafe family environment. Stability refers to consistency and predictability in the child’s environment. Frequent residential moves, household changes, inconsistent childcare, and life events that create volatile or stressful family conditions, such as divorce and job loss, can threaten stability. An unpredictable and chaotic family environment can diminish a child’s sense that the world is a trustworthy place, dependable, and a fair place to live. Nurturing is characterized by availability, sensitivity, and warmth in responding to a child’s needs. Nurturing relationships contribute to a child’s self-esteem, confidence, social competencies, and emotional development. Each one of these roles are very important for anyone and everyone and if you are missing one or all you are missing a very key part in your development. With all these three key steps being linked together like a chain if you take one out you have just broken the key to success in development. When identifying risky and protective contexts, observers may find that certain components of safety, stability, and nurturing often cluster together or co-occur. However, a better understanding of how different aspects of safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments are related to one another and generate other components of risk and protection is needed. Fireboy123 NDIrish123.
DeleteIt’s sad but not surprising to hear that kids these days are exposed to violence at such a young age. This factor shows that Developmental, behavioral, and biological research as been proven to be linked between the early exposure to the stressful events. The kids that witness this may become criminals when they get into the teenager/adult ages. I wish there was a way for kids to get out of the homes that have violence in them so they don’t have to witness everything that may go on in their home. I understand that they can’t save everyone but, there needs to be a program where kids can go talk to someone about what is happening at home instead of keeping it all bottled up inside. The important domain involves social interactions, children and youth experience much of their world around their relationships with their parents and or caretakers. The relationships they have are really important to their physical, emotional, and or social behavior. If there world is based on just violence and their relationships aren’t normal then the kid is gonna end up just like there parents are. Kids should have a backbone of safety on there shoulders. The absence of a threat or neglect refers to the extent to which children are free from fear or harm as it states in the article. Acts of physical abuse, child neglect, and harsh or hostile parenting represent makers of an unsafe environment. Kids need to be able to be taken out of this situation and be moved to a better environment where they can grow up with out of the harshness around them. It is really sad to hear that from birth to age four that experienced sexual or physical abuse in the last year. You would imagine that people would notice if someone has been abused and get them out of that environment but, maybe I’m wrong with our world now and days. All the evidence behind this proves that kids that grow up in violent households have damaging effects on health development. In the article it states that it isn’t all about the house though, some kids may feel unsafe at school to. I understand a school has tons of kids to worry about but, they should also be able to help a student that does not feel safe around his or her environment. As with that, suicides would not happen as much if there would be a great system for the kids to go to if they are not really feeling safe. It’s already bad enough that they have to worry about their home life, I bet for a fact that it could be even worse at school for them and I know that no kid should ever have to go through that. One big thing that I question is the validity of the NatSCEV because as I would imagine no kid would want to talk about the abuse they have suffered through. Another thing is how trustworth be if a caregiver that is watching a baby could be if they are the ones following through on giving the abuse? To be it seems a little bit ridiculous. Overall I think that kids that grow up in these homes have a more likely chance of become criminals in their adult lifetime if they have gone through all the abuse and could not get out of it. I believe this because they have been around it all there life that they have no escape route to go and they lean towards the violence that they have witnessed. I think that they should always have a way to get out of there home if it keeps happening. Hopefully in the near future we work and try our best to make sure things like this don’t slip out of hands and we can make sure kids in bad homes and bad school environments can find help when needed. Smile123
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you are saying in this post, many children these days are exposed to excessive amounts of violence not only out in the real world but also in their very own homes. These children subject to physical, mental, and sometimes even sexual abuse by their own family members. These types of abuse can be very detrimental to a child's development especially when they are younger. They can also be turned to a life a crime, such as with the victim-offender affect. I agree that these children should be taken out of their abusive environments and put into an environment that will help them grow and learn positively. An environment that will teach them to be better citizens and how to treat people the right way. We as a society need to take steps in order to help stop these types of abuses that are plaguing our children and young adults in our country and also worldwide. Pack123
DeleteDuring the course of the semester we have talked a lot about how when children get exposed to violence at an early age they are more likely to commit violent acts is something we have been talking about for a while in class and I feel this is one of the main reason children do juvenile acts at younger ages now a days. Being exposed to different types of violence such as an abusive parent, watching a parent abuse the other, or even in the worst cases, being sexually abused by a parent or close family member, can put a lot of stress on a child. These stressors can often lead to a child being delinquent, especially in the case of those being sexually abused. These types of children often run away from home to escape the abuse and often turned to a life of crime wherever they may find themselves after they run away. If children experience most of the world through relationships with parents and caregivers, then if those parents or caregivers are neglecting or beating them and we take the child away, then what type of relationship will this child develop not having a mom or dad. This creates a big divide in the child’s life more often times than not, and it can be very detrimental to the child. This separation can often times lead to a child becoming a delinquent, maybe not severely but a delinquent nonetheless. Another unfortunate circumstance of these situations is the victim-offender affect. This affect states that when a child is a victim, it can often lead them down a path that brings them to being an offender, such as when a girl would run away from a sexually abusive household only to become a hoe for a pimp in whichever city she ends up in. This is an extreme example but it shows just how tragic the victim-offender affect can be. Children experience basically all of their everyday lives by watching how other people act around each other. Each of the three dimensions of safe, stable, nurturing relationships represents a significant aspect of the social and physical environments that protect children and promote their optimal healthy development. The part of these relationships is making sure that it is a safe relationship. the absence of threat, neglect, and violence. In all safety refers to the extent to which children are free from fear and harm within their social and physical environments. Experiencing any type of physical or mental abuse can be devastating to child and will affect how they maintain and create relationships with other people all throughout their lives. Stability refers to consistency and predictability in the child’s environment. Frequent residential moves, household changes, inconsistent childcare, and life events that create volatile or stressful family conditions, such as divorce and job loss, can threaten stability. Stability is key to helping a child develop because it takes many stressors out of the equation for the child. The third and final element to establishing relationships for juveniles is Nurturing, which is characterized by availability, sensitivity, and warmth in responding to a child’s needs. Nurturing relationships contribute to a child’s self-esteem, confidence, social competencies, and emotional development. If a child is not given all the materials that they need to survive or even just the attention that a young child needs, the child is being neglected and it can have a very negative effect on the child and possibly even cause death to the child. These three elements are crucial to the growth and development of every child. Pack123
ReplyDeleteI completely agree that children witnessing deviant behavior and experiencing neglect and abuse because of criminal parents is devistating to their development. I believe there is only a small percent of children that come out of environments like that and manage to make something of themselves other than just following in their parents footsteps and becoming criminals like that. It was told to us that bad, or criminal, behavior is learned and that is very true. Where else would kids learn to act that way if they weren't learning it from their parents or the people they are around in their everyday life. Without good influences around them to give them good examples of how to live properly, the child is definitely more bound to follow whatever bad behavior they experience more than the good. I grew up in a home with a deviant older sister and mostly absent parents. It was surprising to a lot of people that I didn’t end up becoming deviant like my sister because she was always doing horrible things and my parents were never around. I just took her behavior as a way not to act in my life and I learned differently than her. I suppose I was part of that rare percentage of kids that didn’t follow in the deviant behavior. Sadly, not everyone is as lucky or smart, as we have well studied. SomethingProfound123
DeletePart 1: Did you know that not all children want or react well to having a safe, stable, nurturing environment or relationships with people? I found that to be an interesting fact considering the whole point of this blog was about safe, stable, nurturing environments for children and how the lack there of can cause delinquency in their futures. When I read the section that starts off with the sentence, “although most children enjoy safe, stable, nurturing relationships with their caregivers, not all do, and evidence suggests the likelihood of having positive caregiver relationships varies according to sociodemographic factors,” I knew that was going to be a very interesting section. To me, it raises the question of why would a child not want to live in that kind of environment and would actually prefer to live with the negativity? I can only imagine that they would want live that way because the parents wouldn’t care as much about what the child would do, which in a sense allots them more freedom than they really need at their ages. If no one is telling them that what they are doing is wrong, or that they need to focus on things like education or hygiene. We all know exactly how relunctant kids can be in learning the important things in life and how they sort of need a push by their parents to get them to the point where they actually see how important it all is. Without the parents to give them that push, the kid kind of gets a free-for-all attitude about themselves and life and often times, if someone tries to be a caregiver to them, they feel restricted or constricted and like they are losing their freedom. That sort of feeling pushes kids to act out or seclude themselves within their own minds and not want anyone to try to help them. Though, while this kind of feeling can cause them to fall into delinquency, there are more problems than this with lack of safe, nurturing, stable environments or relationships. When children don’t start out their life with those good relationships or environments, it starts them on the path to delinquency. As the article has shown us, kids that are within the negative relationships or enviroment’s, usually end up following the worst examples of how to act. Usually, if they have criminal parents or criminal friends or family, they don’t have good enough influences to show them how to properly live their lives as model citizens. They watch as their father or mother commit crimes or maybe how they will fight with each other in front of the child. It is just as bad of an influence on their mental state as anything and what is worse is when the parents turn on their own children and take out their frustrations on them instead. It turns into child abuse which pushes the child further into the path of criminal behavior and often times that kind of behavior they witness is shown again to their own children when they have children themselves. It is a vicious circle but it happens none the less when a safe, stable, nurturing environment is not available or the relationships are not present. Eventually their own children would follow in their footsteps and become criminals themselves too if they are not directed off the path that their parents unknowingly put them on. Let’s face it, not too many abusive or criminal parents stop to think that what they are doing may be having negative results on their child. SomethingProfound123
ReplyDeletePart 2: Then again, when you read further to the end of this article, it talks about how a lack, or shortage, of safe, nurturing, stable relationships usually only effects older adolescents and children living in nontraditional family structures. I always thought that it would influence the younger children more because they are more easily influenced and persuaded. However, when I read about it, I came to the conclusion that the reason it effects the older kids more is because they are old enough to fully understand and can try to retaliate themselves if their parents tried to turn around on them. Older kids have the probably of getting kicked out of the home all together and living on the street where they have a direct, first-hand experience with the criminals on the street. They would learn new ways to be deviant and sometimes, they even get picked up by the police, which often makes their home lives even worse. Their parents would get them from the jail and then when they would get home, would start screaming and taking out their frustrations on the child instead of trying to find ways to discipline them so they don’t do it again. It would appear, according to the article that the younger children do not experience as much physical or sexual abuse as adolescent teenagers do. I believe it stated, fewer of the youngest children, from birth to age four, experienced physical or sexual abuse, compared to the other age groups. The oldest age group, which is ages fourteen to seventeen, was more likely to experience harsh parenting that the younger age groups. For the most part, boys and girls did not differ in the safety indicators, and researchers found few differences between children of lower and higher socioeconomic standing. There is evidence that violence, abuse, and other forms of major adversity have damaging effects on health and development. To me, that just makes sense. If the parents are drinking or are drug users and then get violent with their children, it can only do more damage than good. I never had to deal with my parents using drugs or with them being overly violent, but I did have to deal with them being absent while my older sister was doing drugs and being violent with me. It didn’t make for the easiest environment for me to live in because while my parents were not being the ones to cause all the problems, they were not present to prevent my sister from doing all of it. In a sense, I feel that is just as bad as being placed in a negative environment with your parents. I dealt with the lack of nurturing and stable relationships with my family. That is interesting because the article stated that researchers have already shown that children who experience one type of victimization often experience other types as well. That reminds me of the cooccurrence of mental health issues that I just learned about in the mental health first aid class where if you have experienced one mental health problem you are more than likely to have another hidden one. Needless to say, a child that has experienced this kind of lifestyle is bounded to be messed up in more than one way. After reading this article and studying about the influences that families and relationships can have on a child, I can honestly say that when I finally have my child, I plan to give them whole hearted, genuine life with a caring, loving family and a healthy environment for them to grow up in without fear of being abused. SomethingProfound123
ReplyDeletePt 1 Some interesting things I saw in this article were that the three dimensions of safe, stable, nurturing relationships represent a big aspect of the social and environments that protect children and promote their optimal healthy development. The safety of a child represents the absence of threat or neglect. Physical abuse, neglect, hostile parenting, and drug and alcohol abuse, represent markers of an unsafe family environment. The family environment should be the safest place for the child and also the most influential. Mostly everything a child learns come from the home and also from school. Next, the article talks about stability. Stability meaning the consistency and predictability in the child’s environment. Frequently moving, household changes, inconsistent childcare, and life events that create stress. These events could be a divorce or loss of a job. In this type of environment, it’s like nothing goes right. It’s always something that slows you down and stresses you out over something that you can’t control.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to nurturing, it could be maybe the most important of them all. Nurturing is showing the child love, emotion, showing the child that you care and giving them that feeling warmth. Nurturing can range from warm and supportive to hostility and rejection. That’s why I feel it is so important because it could be good or bad. It’s really whatever the parent portrays to the child. Also the article says that, emotional abuse reduces nurturing relationship qualities, whereas supportive interactions, adequate monitoring, social involvement increase nurturing. Those three dimensions overlap, but each represents central and distinct aspects of a child’s relationships and environments that are critical for his or her healthy development.
Some statistics that were in the article were the percentage of children and youth who scored high and low on each individual indicator of the safety, stability and nurturing domain for the total sample and across select demographic characteristics. For example, children from birth to age 4 experienced physical or sexual abuse in the past year (2 %), compared to other age groups(5-9 5%, 10-13 5%, and 10-17 5%). The group that was more likely to experience harsh parenting was ages 14-17. I think at this age, the adolescents are going through many changes in life and really try to cope with them the way they want. This is when they are in high school and things you never did before, may become things that are normal now. I believe that is why this is the harsh parenting group. Adolescents try to do things they are not suppose to be doing and in turn the parents try to stop whatever is going on. It all goes back to the three dimensions safety, stability and nurturing, if these weren’t all there as the child is growing up things can change before you know it.
In the conclusion it says that a nationally representative study shows that almost 25% of children 5-15 in the U.S. lived in family environments with only modest levels of safety, stability, and nurturance, while 1 and 15 had consistently low levels across multiple domains. The shortage of SSNR (safe, stable, nurturing relationships) appears to be the most heavily burden older adolescents and children living in a nontraditional family structures. These deficits have crucial implications for the future functioning of these young people. –M24Ninja123, DC?123
Pt 2 This article goes over the SSNR (Safe, stable, nurturing relationships) of adolescents and children identified by a 1st time study. The OJJDP (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention) with the CDC conducted a survey lead by then Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder on the relationships on a SSNR and exposure to witnessing violence. The process involved randomly calling 31 cell phone numbers through random digit dialing (RDD techniques) and then using address based sample (ABS) to another 750 homes. They sent letters to the 750 homes to ask for participation and approximately half were cell phone only homes that could represent houses that did not have land lines. The study always started with a caregiver in the house but gets handed off to the children in the 10-17 year range. 9 and under were conducted with the caregiver answering some of the questions. About 40-60% of families were cooperative during the study. The assessment was based on the safety, security, and nurturing making composite scores. Mental health was taken into account using trauma symptom checklist for children. Based on the high and low comparisons it is further broken down based on gender, age groups, family structure (i.e. two parents, parent and a step parent, single, or nonparent), and socioeconomic status. Most of the groups identified that they had a high SSNR roughly 51 percent through 77 percent. On the low end of the SSNR it was 3.3 percent through 14.9 percent self identified. Two biological parents appeared to come out on top for the highest on average with nonparents bringing in the rear. Non parents also seemed to have children with higher exposure to violence than those with one or more parents. Older children (the 14- 17 group) seemed to have lower scores overall which in my opinion shows that they were being more honest with the testing vs. having the guardians more involved with the survey. Males tended to feel more safe than females while females had a marginally higher stability percentage. Over all males appeared to identify a higher SSNR than females. Unsurprising to me the lower socioeconomic status had lower scores in all categories. Looking at the charts it confirms information for me that children with both parents in the picture with a higher social economical status have less exposure to violence than their counterparts. I believe most people think that more social programs can help mitigate the levels that were seen in the survey but I think it’s a problem that will plague all societies no matter how many programs are in place. The numbers show a difference between the groups but there is not a program that can fix both keeping parents together and bring everyone into a higher socioeconomic status. I do believe family education classes could help educate families on how to deal with violence both internal and external but to fund and coordinate would be unfeasible unless handled locally though volunteer missions and through spiritual learning. The biggest problem I see with having 1 in 15 families with low SSNR is children with mental health issues. This adds another hurdle in their life that can lead to juvenile delinquency and later in life a career criminal if not dealt with. I’m a firm believer that if a child with mental disorders has a good SSNR he or she can over come the disability and evolve into a stand up member of society. –M24Ninja123, DC?123
ReplyDeleteI found interesting was children and youth experience much of their world through relationships with parents and care givers. And that the relationships are fundamental to healthy development of physical, emotional, social, behavioral, intellectual capacities. Which is really true because when growing up you learn things from people that are close to you or your parents. children that are able to know what is what has to be taught right because things can reflect their future behavior. children should have a safe environment when growing up. Actions of neglect, physical harm, harsh or hostile parenting practice plays a part when raising a child. You shouldn’t neglect your child or even harm them because they can grow up and become a delinquent when getting older. Some kids let those type of situation affect them because they may have been physically abused or even verbally abused. In order to keep your child safe, you should always be concerned on what she or he is doing only to make sure everything is alright, never neglecting them showing you really care about them. These are signs that a child may be neglected. The child may not go to school regularly, smell badly and be dirty, tell you that there is no one at home to take care of them, be depressed, show crazy behavior, or use alcohol or drugs. Neglecting a child can mess up a child’s life. Not going to school or even not getting good grades can all be because they aren’t doing good at home or they are really distracted. Also, another thing was the was how kids can get affected when their parents get a divorce. I feel like when that happens the kid feel some type of was because they are so use to their parents being together, them waking to parents every morning. Parents should be alert to signs of distress in their child or children. Young children may react to divorce by becoming more aggressive and uncooperative or by withdrawing. Older children may feel deep sadness and loss. Their schoolwork may suffer and behavior problems are common. As teenagers and adults, children of divorce can have trouble with their own relationships and experience problems with self-esteem. Children will do best if they know that their mother and father will still be their parents and remain involved with them even though the marriage is ending and the parents won't live together. Long custody disputes or pressure on a child to "choose" sides can be particularly harmful for the youngster and can add to the damage of the divorce. Research shows that children do better when parents can minimize conflict and cooperate on behalf of the child. Another interesting thing was in the article it says “Although most children enjoy safe, stable, and nurturing relationships with their caregivers, not all do, and evidence suggests the likelihood of having positive caregiver’s relationship varies according to sociodemographic factors.” Which meaning to me that kids have a difficult time getting use to their environment or even think their parents are just over protective. The early years are when children show personality traits and preferences for what they like and dislike. By planning opportunities with children's unique personality styles in mind, you nurture their positive feelings about themselves. -babyblue123
ReplyDeleteIt’s not hard to believe that children learn and take after their peers and parental figures when growing up. Every child deserves a fair life in a loving home. Of course we don’t pick our families and sometimes we end up in a horrible living conditions and can not control our surroundings. I agree that a child growing up without stability, nurture, or safety they are going to experience mental development issues. A child growing up in a bad environment is going to have a different look at life than a child who experienced life with loving parents. Seeing and always being around violence, alcohol and drug abuse will become the norm for that child. They are not going to understand a different way of life. It’s going to be hard for them to get through everyday life situations like school when they don’t have support. With stability they can’t form loving relationships which make them end up alone and thinking to themselves about things that they don’t have control over. Some kids just let the abuse happen to them because they have no other choice and no chance of escape. It’s heartbreaking because they need the love from someone to change their life.
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It is clear that a child exposed to violence at such a young age will experience damage to their well-being and long term health. Without a safe, stable, and nurturing environment how could you expect a child to learn on their own. A child’s mind is not developed enough to comprehend or deal with their own life and living conditions. A huge factor that I believe contributes to a child developing problems later in life is because of lack of nurturing. As stated in this article provided that availability, sensitivity, and warmth in responding to a child’s needs is extremely important. Being ignored and neglected will create horrid thoughts that will build up in a child’s mind. Living in such an unsafe environment and being exposed to abuse in drugs/alcohol and violence can make it a norm for the child. If that’s how the child sees how his parents live, then how come he should be different? He does not know any other way of living or acting so how could one expect the child to take the initiative to be a better person and handle this built up anger in a responsible manner. That is way too much for a child to reflect on and it puts a lot of pressure on them as well. Obviously there is evidence that a child who has been exposed to a positive caregiver is going to turn out negatively compared to other children. There is a lot of evidence to conclude that having someone there that is tentative and caring is going to have a positive outlook on that child because they have someone to relate to and discuss their problems to creating a safe environment for them as well. Other factors besides not having a safe living environment such as moving and not living with a biological parents has an affect on the development of a child’s mind. One thing that stood out to me in this study was that almost 1 and 4 children in the United States lived in family environment with modest level of safety, stability, and nurturance while 1 in 15 had consistently low levels across multiple domains. Those three key factors have the most impact on the children not in traditional families. I couldn’t imagine how I would grow up if my parents weren’t always there for me in a caring/loving fashion. We can’t pick our families in the long run, some children are strong enough to handle those harsh living conditions and still preserve in life. However, that isn’t the case for most and they are going to grow up just like their parents weather they want to or not. Those mental thoughts and their mental development will accumulate over time and mental disorders such as depression can have a long lasted impact on their lives unfortunately. One problem that I feel children experience the most would be “Stability” because both parents could be working and not having time to do things for their child. They aren’t able to partake in after school activities or be with friends because they have to stay home. They are constantly moving they don’t know what to call home or who to make strong connections with because they don’t know how long they can be there with them. They’re not making friendships to help support their family problems. They have no one to rely on and take care of their needs. Life to those children just seem unfair to them and they’ll see no point in trying to be a better person and do good in life. It’s heartbreaking but without a healthy living conditions a child can not enjoy life and see the good in things. Parents are so important to a child’s mental development they are their role models. Sunshine123
ReplyDeleteThe idea that children see and integrate what their parents due into their own thoughts and behaviors is spot on. When children are young they see, hear, and learn from their parental figures more so than anything else and it is imperative that we ensure this is a positive environment for learning and not a hazardous one. If a child grows up in a low rated household for even one of these factors they can be at a serious risk for mental, emotional, and physical health. Furthermore, they may turn to delinquent acts in order to cope or adapt to their rough environments. I was surprised that delinquency was not discussed in great detail during this report but it seems that many of the risk factors described are indeed risk factors for crime in itself. If we want to help fight crime on a nation wide basis we definitely need to focus on child development as well as adult criminal development. This whole philosophy of parent to child behavior sharing reminds me of the phrase, monkey see monkey do. Its that simple, if you want children to become proactive and productive members in society then you need to show them what that is at an early age and continue to do so through adulthood. Ghost123
DeleteIn the modern-day America children are faced with numerous challenges that must be overcome as they mature into adulthood in order for them to become functioning adults within today's society. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention have administered surveys in recent years in order to analyze the relationships children share with certain attributes or indicators and how those indicators affect the well-being of those children. The three factors that the OJJDP analyzed specifically in this study were safety, stability, and nurturing. The safety aspect represents the child's' proximity to threats and violence both in their household and in their environment. During the surveys administered through the National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence researchers found that there was a direct link with the level of safety a child reported and the level of mental and emotional health for the child later on in life. Furthermore, safety seems to be the most significant influence in determining a child's mental and physical health as they grow into adults. The lower the level of safety during a person’s childhood seemed to provide a lower level of quality social interactions during their later adolescent years as well. Studies also found that gender did not play a significant role at younger ages however socioeconomic levels dramatically effected the level of safety for children. The data shows that the lower a family was on the socioeconomic level; the lower their child's safety rating was. Stability also proved to have a significant impact on a child's well-being although not as much as safety. For the purpose of this report, stability was characterized as the consistency and predictability of a child’s environment and household. The correlations in the data showed the more a child's household was split up the more the child was at risk. This is especially true in cases where a child resides and is taken care of by non-biological care givers. Furthermore, the less supervision a child had the more they felt depressed or suffered from other distresses. The report provided by OJJDP showed that a family’s consisting of two biological parents had the highest level of childcare stability at 88 percent while non-biological caregiver families had the lowest. Ghost123 Part 1
ReplyDeleteThe biggest impact to a child’s stability in relation to household make up appeared to be at the younger ages when children are more dependent on their immediate families for interaction whereas older adolescents were more involved outside of the household. Aside from a child’s household make up, nurturing plays an important role in determining the risk factors for children growing to adulthood. For the purpose of this study nurturing is characterized by the availability and attention a care giver has in responding to a child’s needs. Nurturing relationships with children and their parents directly affects a child’s self-esteem, confidence, and social competencies as they grow older. The range of nurturing levels can go from warm and supportive families to hostile and violent ones. Forms of abuse lower the level of nurturing while supportive interactions and involvement raise the level of nurturing. Studies found that younger children had the lowest levels of emotional abuse while the older adolescents had the highest. Furthermore, the oldest had the least amount of reported supervision while the youngest had the most supervision. This can largely be swayed by the involvement older children have with their community and their lowered reliance on direct family interaction as opposed to younger children. This correlation between supervision and abuse may be an indicator of issues both within the household and possibly within the community as a whole. However, all three factors often share cause and effect relationships with one another. All three categories show that a child’s promising future relies heavily on the environment and support they are provided while growing up. It is imperative that we first ensure the safety of children who may be in harm’s way since it is the greatest risk factor. However, all three factors play a crucial role in determining a child’s well-being and should monitored, and high-risk families should be targeted in order to help those children who may not be able to help themselves. Ghost123 Part 2
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