Child Abuse within Military Families Regarding PTSD
When my brother came back from Afghanistan I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know if he would still be the same person he was when he left or if he would have grown accustom to that life and never be the same. 1 in 8 returning military soldiers suffer from Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder (“Veterans Statistics”). PTSD is an illness that can not only tear the relationship of a family apart, but start bad habits that weren’t there before. The abuse and neglect with increase with every deployment (“Vanden Brook”). Child abuse is a serious issue that is not talked about in the news that often. I believe that people have the mindset of ‘it wouldn’t happen to us’ when it comes to most things. When you are a military family you need to inform your kids about when the soldier gets home they may need time to adjust back (Child Abuse). Child abuse is a topic that should not be taking lightly.
When a child gets abused it could be mentally, physically, or emotionally. If a child begins its life with an event such as getting abused or mistreated in any way they will go throughout there …show more content…
The definition of abuse is to “treat (a person or an animal) with cruelty or violence, especially regularly or repeatedly.” Even with that definition people have different views towards what they feel is wrong and right. The U.S. is widely diverse cultures from all around the world. Every culture has different norms and beliefs, what one person could think is a normal thing to do another could think that’s the exact opposite, as I said earlier (Child Abuse). Some children feel if they tell anyone about it that it will makes things worse (Child Abuse and Neglect). Funding could also be an issue depending on how much the government is willing to put into the awareness and prevention of abuse and PTSD. It’s a hard topic to talk about but it is important that everyone I aware how serious PTSD can be and what it can lead
When my brother came back from Afghanistan I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know if he would still be the same person he was when he left or if he would have grown accustom to that life and never be the same. 1 in 8 returning military soldiers suffer from Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder (“Veterans Statistics”). PTSD is an illness that can not only tear the relationship of a family apart, but start bad habits that weren’t there before. The abuse and neglect with increase with every deployment (“Vanden Brook”). Child abuse is a serious issue that is not talked about in the news that often. I believe that people have the mindset of ‘it wouldn’t happen to us’ when it comes to most things. When you are a military family you need to inform your kids about when the soldier gets home they may need time to adjust back (Child Abuse). Child abuse is a topic that should not be taking lightly.
When a child gets abused it could be mentally, physically, or emotionally. If a child begins its life with an event such as getting abused or mistreated in any way they will go throughout there …show more content…
The definition of abuse is to “treat (a person or an animal) with cruelty or violence, especially regularly or repeatedly.” Even with that definition people have different views towards what they feel is wrong and right. The U.S. is widely diverse cultures from all around the world. Every culture has different norms and beliefs, what one person could think is a normal thing to do another could think that’s the exact opposite, as I said earlier (Child Abuse). Some children feel if they tell anyone about it that it will makes things worse (Child Abuse and Neglect). Funding could also be an issue depending on how much the government is willing to put into the awareness and prevention of abuse and PTSD. It’s a hard topic to talk about but it is important that everyone I aware how serious PTSD can be and what it can lead