Hemispatial neglect

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…

numerous accounts the social workers failed the children and the family as well. This institution was created to protect the children. Alternatively, the social workers didn’t report and record their findings accurately. All the signs of abuse and neglect were ignored and there were times when the social workers tried to make excuses for the incidents. The social workers failed to do follow up’s and closed the multiple cases on the family with inaccurate dictations. With this in mind, there…

Child Abuse: Neglect at home Child neglect is a huge problem in the world and it has different meanings that vary everywhere. But, for the most part, it means maltreatment of children and it is categorized under child abuse. Child neglect, in the dictionary, includes physical abuse, emotional abuse, medical abuse, environmental neglect, as well as a lack of supervision/attention. Each of the categories under neglect has their own little categories that come with a lot of examples. It’s to be…

discipline is an ongoing debate. Yet, it is generally believed that children should not be punished like adults because children are not fully aware of the consequences of their actions. Punishments can lead to psychological disorders and emotional neglect. First of all, it is well known that the majority of children learn the difference between right and wrong through observations. They see models of everyday behaviors through the actions of their families. For instance, if parents are…

The children that became child soldiers got told that they would be treated well and treated way better than they would be by their parents but they got lied to and treated way worse. Although some of the kids had a option to become a child soldier, child soldiers should be granted amnesty because, everyone got traumatized from what happened that when they get out of this situation they won’t do it again and they were rather forced or manipulated into becoming a child soldier. One reason to…

Did you know that there are around 300,000 children that become child soldiers a year? Child soldiers commit crimes that if an adult did they would be put in prison. Some people would say that the young warriors should be given amnesty and others would disagree. These youngsters are going out and blowing up buildings and killing people. Some might say that since they are only children and they don't know what they are doing that the juveniles should be given amnesty. Others would say that the…

In 2015, almost 58,000 children were sexually abused, but countless of children never reported (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services et al. 44). In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, there was a segment where a child was sexually abused by a kin. The young girl, Deborah Lacks, was sitting in the car with Galen, her cousin, who touched her inappropriately, but she did not know how to react. Galen would "grab [her] in the backseat, forcing his hands under her shirt, in…

After 38 years with the State of Missouri working in the Children’s Division saving children from child abuse and neglect, Mary Murney retired. Mary planned to work a full 42 years; however, her manager drove her out the door with his arbitrary tactics of management. To make matters worse, he despised older workers; both male and female. Even though Mary literally held the division together and got things done, the manager saw no value in her. Off she went, out the door, shaking like a…

Human rights have been violated that has paved the way for the advent of universal suffrage from past historical events that are still contributing today. Children from immigrants’ background have faced many challenges that tortured or abused their freedom of expression. To help picture the true situation of inequality throughout the worlds’ views, we can see the perspective of the book Esperanza Rising and in the current events with Syrian refugee and children. Esperanza Rising, the main…

Many people should hope that the children in the care of the Juvenile facilities are treated properly. Sadly, for some facilities, that hope is not the reality. Children needs in certain juvenile detention center are neglected and proper protocol is not followed. In my brief employment at such a juvenile detention center, I believe often more so than not, that said actions go unreported. The purpose of a juvenile detention center to me is to rehabilitate the children that they receive. In order…