she was able to see the conditions that the ten-year-old Mary Ellen was living under. The article written by the American Humane Association said that Mrs. Wheeler describes Mary Ellen “as appearing dirty, thin, dressed in threadbare clothing, and had bruises and scars along her bare arms and legs.” (American Humane Association 2013). After these horrible findings, Etta Angell Wheeler made it her job to find legal protection for this vulnerable child and started the first case of child abuse in America.
In 1874, the United States had only a few laws that protected children from being disciplined with an excessive use of physical force but the State of New York had a law that allowed authorities to remove children from their current homes if …show more content…
To be able to properly address this issue, we have to start by educating the American society on how to properly deal with their emotions. “Transpersonal psychology recognizes the significant evidence that many of these states of consciousness are not only quite common in the population at large.” (Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology pp 419). Keeping in my mind that the reality that the human mind perceives comes directly from the way they see and feel about life. “Some thinkers proposed that our ability to know the world is conditioned by our senses and mental apparatus.” (Grandy, David A.. Everyday Quantum Reality. Bloomington pp. 107) Based on this argument many psychologists can conclude that what is considered abuse to one person, may not be considered abuse to others. “Knowledge of such experiences, as well as of religious and spiritual diversity issues, can be considered a necessity for clinicians in order to for them to offer appropriate guidance to clients, and also to raise awareness of their own biases and thereby limit the impact that these biases might otherwise have.” (Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology pp 419). Unfortunately, there is no manual to show us how to raise a child properly, humans are doing the best they can to raise healthy loving children. As a society is easy to point fingers and criticize a family by using a micro perspective on how good or bad they are raising their children, but the American society oversees that children are constantly being used and abused by their own social beliefs. “family is part of the larger Social Institution.” (Leon-Guerrero, Anna pp. 172) Every day children are being exploited by big corporations such as Disney, Nickelodeon, Wal-Mart and many others, depriving them of their childhood and innocence by encouraging them to dress inappropriate with provocative clothing, using
In 1874, the United States had only a few laws that protected children from being disciplined with an excessive use of physical force but the State of New York had a law that allowed authorities to remove children from their current homes if …show more content…
To be able to properly address this issue, we have to start by educating the American society on how to properly deal with their emotions. “Transpersonal psychology recognizes the significant evidence that many of these states of consciousness are not only quite common in the population at large.” (Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology pp 419). Keeping in my mind that the reality that the human mind perceives comes directly from the way they see and feel about life. “Some thinkers proposed that our ability to know the world is conditioned by our senses and mental apparatus.” (Grandy, David A.. Everyday Quantum Reality. Bloomington pp. 107) Based on this argument many psychologists can conclude that what is considered abuse to one person, may not be considered abuse to others. “Knowledge of such experiences, as well as of religious and spiritual diversity issues, can be considered a necessity for clinicians in order to for them to offer appropriate guidance to clients, and also to raise awareness of their own biases and thereby limit the impact that these biases might otherwise have.” (Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology pp 419). Unfortunately, there is no manual to show us how to raise a child properly, humans are doing the best they can to raise healthy loving children. As a society is easy to point fingers and criticize a family by using a micro perspective on how good or bad they are raising their children, but the American society oversees that children are constantly being used and abused by their own social beliefs. “family is part of the larger Social Institution.” (Leon-Guerrero, Anna pp. 172) Every day children are being exploited by big corporations such as Disney, Nickelodeon, Wal-Mart and many others, depriving them of their childhood and innocence by encouraging them to dress inappropriate with provocative clothing, using