Essay On The Hmong

History of the Hmong The Hmongs are a group of people that originated from Southern China and migrated to different parts of Southeastern Asia, including Laos, Thailand, Burma, and Vietnam. Many of the men were recruited and trained by the CIA during the Vietnam War to help prevent the North Vietnamese to invade Laos and South Vietnam through the Ho Chi Min Trail (Cobbs, 2010). After the war, Laos fell to the communist party in 1975 and the Hmong were targeted for annihilation by the new communist regime in Laos (Gordon, 2016). This caused the Hmong to flee to refugee camps in Thailand and eventually many of them relocated to different part of the world such as North America, South America, Australia, Europe, and different parts of Asia. The first group of Hmong families to settle in America was in the late 1970s. Looking at the time frame, the Hmongs have not yet even reach their 50th year of living in the United State. Today, there are more than 260,000 Hmong Americans living across the nation (US Census, 2010). In the state of Wisconsin, there are about 46,240 Hmong Americans, mostly living in areas such as Milwaukee, Wausau, Madison, Sheboygan, Green Bay, …show more content…
When a parent is employed and lives in poverty, the more likely parents would be working long hours struggling to make ends meet and still have to come back home to take care of the family at the end of the day. When a parent is unemployed, it becomes a loss of income for the family. Finding a job may be a burden and the longer someone is unemployed, the more difficult it is to re-enter the work force (Wayn, 2013). The key stressor for families is the lack of income, but it doesn’t prove that people who have low income is the cause of child maltreatment (Epstein, 1961). However, financial stress does play a big role in a family because it can increase the parent emotional volatility and it creates a significant risk for children (child poverty action