Hennig 1 Charlene Hennig Professor Hinton ENC 1101-59961 August 28, 2014 I have experienced many things in my life. All of my life experiences have affected me in different ways. Some experiences were good and some were not. The physical abuse I experienced by my father was the most impactful experience. A parent is supposed to create a safe, stable, and loving home. Instead my father created a home of fear, instability, and inconsistency. This affected my behavior in school, and how I react to things later in life. I was born in Florida. At the age of two my father moved …show more content…
I wanted to leave, but this was all I knew. This was my life and nothing was going to change it. My father did not only abuse me when I did wrong, but instead he would abuse me when he was in a foul mood. The abuse was inconsistent, and because of this my behavior was impacted. In school I would lash out at teachers, and was defiant. My father was not concerned with proper discipline or punishment. I was more of a punching bag for his anger. Therefore I did not understand how to act or behave properly. I was uncontrollable in school. I would jump on desks, and crawl underneath tables in the lunch room. I even threw chairs at the teacher when I did not want to do something she asked. I was violent with my classmates, and disruptive. The bus ride to school was also a problem. I would jeopardize the safety of the other children by jumping over the seats, and disrupting the bus driver. It got so bad that I eventually had to ride a small bus all by myself. Of course my father would get letters and phone calls from the school, he did not seem to care. My father was more worried about what was going on in his world to care what was happening at my school. After a while the school decided I needed to be enrolled in a special school that was more equipped to handle my behavior issues. No one in the school system even thought twice about the discipline at home. If they had investigated our home they would have found out my
It is often argued that spanking children will lead to the kid having socialization problems, affecting child’s behavior and functioning. People think the results of spanking will lead to “...having problems with learning and memory because of the functioning process”. Or maybe the memories of being punished will affect the child negatively, and turn into being isolated to themselves, not being very sociable, or having poor performances in school.
Child abuse is an issue within society that effects the lives of not only the victims but also the lives of many people in the social order. Child abuse is any mistreatment or neglect of a child that results in non-accidental injury or harm and which cannot be logically explained. There are several forms of abuse and neglect and many state governments have developed their own legal description of what constitutes child maltreatment for the purposes of removing a child and prosecuting a criminal charge. Child abuse consists of different forms of harm including physical, emotional, sexual, and neglect.
This also affects me to this day too. My father often referred to me as the “stupid child” since I did not thrive academically as my brother. While I was young, I struggled in school. My parents were so happy that my brother was excelling in school. My father often stated, “you are going to be dependent on you brother because you’re not as smart as he is, he is going to have to take care of you”. The emotional abuse I believe stunted some of my development during this time. While I was concerned about my brother, I was being psychological tortured with name calling and being belittled. I often heard reference terms as “girl, fruit-cake, faggot, and queer”. The most terrifying experience I recalled was when I was around seven. I cannot remember what I did but my father’s reaction was something I would never forget. He called me names and threated to cut off my hair with scissors while I was asleep. Throughout the night, he would startle me and I would hear the noise of scissors cutting. He did this several times this night. I remember going to school the next day exhausted since I was scared.
6a) I would say that the charter would apply to the “Spanking Law” under section 12 that outlines the treatment and punishment, stating that everyone has the right not to be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment and punishment only under the condition that they discipline with excessive force. My reasoning behind whether it would apply would lie in Section 43 of the Criminal Code allows and gives parents and teachers (who is under their care) legal defence when they physically discipline children as long as the force does not exceed what is reasonable under the circumstances. Furthermore, I would add that section 7 of the charter would apply to the “Spanking Law”, which outlines the right to life, liberty and security of the person,
Any one person can have a number of experiences, both good and bad, big and small. Not all of these will change or shape a person, but all of them have the opportunity to depending on how they are perceived by the person and when they occur. One large experience that has drastically impacted my life is coping with bipolar disorder.
I’d lived in Florida my entire life up until I was nine years old, so moving to a new state was a big change for me. In fact, moving to Ohio was the biggest change in my life so far. It was because of my grandparents’ visit that mom realized living in Florida isolated us from the rest of our family. For this reason, my parents came to the conclusion that we should move to Ohio. I didn’t want to go at first, but I didn’t have much of a choice.
I was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to two immigrants from Liberia. Both my mother and my father are from there. My father came much earlier than my mom and when they met, fell in love, got married, and had me. I never asked my father what made him come here; my mother came due to the escalation of the civil war that gripped the county.
Policy that prevents child death caused by a neglectful caretaker is woefully overlooked. Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) is unable to help prevent these deaths because states differ on what is considered neglect and because there is no uniformed way of reporting neglect at the hands of an individual caretaker.1 One recommendation would require individual caretakers to sign a registry, particularly if they have criminal history. A second recommendation would require house inspections for caretakers with outstanding arrest warrants. A third recommendation would require caretakers to undergo a psychological evaluation to determine if they are mentally fit to take care of the child.
Spanking is a form of punishment that consists of striking another person to cause physical pain. It is often used as a method of correcting a child's behavior and has been used for many years by our ancestors, typically being done with an open hand. Spanking children has been a very controversial topic over the years. Spanking is ineffective because it causes aggressive behavior in children, leads to long term mental health issues , and is an act of violence.
“A Midland mother is demanding justice after her child was allegedly slapped in the face. The report of child abuse was filed in June, a week after Tyverious Mackey’s birthday.” In any case anger should never result to violence (Williams). Even though kids should be disciplined but not to the point of beating them, discipline such as spanking is a must because punishing them will make them a better person and teaches kids that the adults are in control.
Many people today are getting arrested for simply disciplining a child. But, in older times disciplining a child set good moral standards and taught that child on what that child was supposed to do and what not to do. There is a fine line between abuse and discipline. So what is child abuse? Child abuse consists of any act of commission or omission that endangers or impairs a child’s physical or emotional health and development. Child abuse includes any damage done to a child which cannot be reasonably explained and which is often represented by an injury or series of injuries appearing to be non-accidental in nature. There are also different kinds of child abuse; which include physical, emotional, and sexual. But, discipline does not
“Every year in the United States there are over 3 million incidents of domestic violence. That means that every nine seconds a women is beaten by her domestic partner” (Findeley). There are many women that stay silent when being abuse by their partners. The consequences of staying quiet when obtaining abuse can be dangerous and can also lead to death. Many women do not recognize the importance of the fact that there is in speaking out if they are being abuse by their partner. No woman should take domestic abuse by their partners. Every woman deserves a healthy relationship; A healthy relationship involves trust, respect, and consideration for the other person. Domestic abuse has gotten worse during the past years and is still rising up. One can see that domestic abuse can occur everywhere. Domestic abuse is considered a crime and woman should not keep silent when being abuse.
When I was a child, my parents used to discipline me by hitting me but
Discipline plays an important role towards the formation of students’ character. It is one of the important components in a system where closely related to the discipline, nature, morality and decency. The word discipline is one thing that is synonymous in daily life. The word discipline is so broad meaning either meaning negative or positive sense. However, the negative meaning that often become the focus and is becoming an issue that is popular if it involves individual or group meetings with the community.
For many years parents have been disciplining their children in various ways. Discipline is required to train a child in doing what is right and staying away from what is wrong and dangerous. Discipline has always been used in order for the child not to grow up spoiled and choosy. Giving children what they want always is never a good thing, while teaching them that they cannot have everything teaches them patience. Discipline is very critical in a child’s life because it is a determining factor on how that child is going to turn out in the future. People will always relate bad parenting to a child’s bad behaviour and good parenting to a good behaviour. So how must parents discipline in order