Family / Living Situation By Raymond Scott

Jonathan Kozol, in the chapter entitled “Other People’s Children, discusses and justifies the kinds of limitations placed on children who must attend poorly funded, educationally inferior school. Kozol argues that children in the inner-city schools are not fit to go to college and that they should be trained in schools for the jobs they will eventually hold, even though these jobs are less prestigious, lowest-level jobs in society. Kozol’s argument is based on the fact that students from the inner-city or rather from the societies that do not have enough job opportunities are not supposed to learn much because their society cannot accommodate most of the courses that are often found in the urban settings. For example, there is a point where Kozol cites one of the businessman’s statement which says, ‘It doesn’t make sense to offer something that most of these urban kids will never use.’ The businessman continues to argue, ‘no one expects these ghetto kids to go to college. Most of them are lucky if they are literate. If we can teach some useful skills, get them to stay in school and graduate, and maybe into jobs, we’re giving them the most that they can hope for’ (Kozol 376). This statement clearly indicate that the society should accept the inequalities and exercise the same inequalities even in education.

The Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Study was initially conducted at Kaiser Permanente from 1995 to 1997. This study is a partnership between the Center for

The Adverse Childhood Experience(ACE) score is a scale which was created to measure the amount of harsh conditions an individual has experienced throughout his or her childhood (Levenson & Grady, 2016, p.95). “It has become a useful and well researched tool for measuring the accumulation of traumatic events related to child maltreatment and family dysfunction” (Levenson & Grady, 2016, p.95). “Items in the ACE score include: emotional, physical, and sexual abuse; witnessing household violence; substance abuse; household mental illness; and having an incarcerated household member…physical and emotional neglect and parental separation/divorce” (Fox, Perez, Cass, Baglivio, & Epps, 2015, p. 165). However, this paper will solely focus on the three types of abuse, both types of neglect, domestic violence, incarcerated member of household, and substance abuse.

The house was long, white, and had blue shudders. I could always pick out which set of windows out front peeked into my bedroom because of the messy off-white paint stuck to it after years of never being touched up. Inside, so much more was going on than the typical all-American home lead outsiders to believe. Confusion, growth, fear, and lots of aluminum cans.

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) score is a tally of different types of abuse, neglect, and other hallmarks of a rough childhood. Personally, my ACE score is a 0. I grew-up with two parents who were kind to one another and displayed/modeled a healthy relationship through love and teamwork. My brothers and I have a supportive extended family that continues to offer support and my hometown is a safe, close knit, small town in rural Wisconsin. At times, my blessed background worries me with going into the field of teaching. Due to the fact that I have experienced such a ‘cookie cutter’ childhood, I often worry about my ability to connect and teach my students who have experienced abuse or neglect. I question, how I am I able/suppose too

In "How Can I Call This My Home" by Lee Chew, many aspects of his autobiography are surprising, if not shocking. First, to realize how rural China is during this time period compared to the United States relates to how the Chinese were cut off from Western society by governmental choice and how that prohibited them from moving into the Industrial Age until much later than the United States and other Western nations. Additionally, Lee Chew's description of the wealth the man from his village had when he came back from America and how that made him decide to proceed to America was interesting, for even though most Chinese came to the United States for economic gain most did not achieve it in the sense that that man did, and that he, unlike Lee

I’ve moved several times leaving behind family and friends. At one point my husband and I were tired of moving and saying goodbye to friends. My kids were sad leaving their school and starting all over again. Our last stop was North Dakota twenty years ago. It has been a blessed we got jobs we loves and my children ended with good friends, a good education, and jobs they loved.

Once upon a time in a small town of Mena, Arkansas there was a family, a mom, a dad, a boy, and a girl. They moved from Amarillo, Texas to Mena, Arkansas. They moved in down the road on 25th avenue house number 0004. What these people didn't know is that this house was the most creepiest house ever. The story behind the house was their used to be a man named Rick, and his wife Judy. Rick was not a average man, he was mean as a snake, and was the scariest man in the neighborhood. You could always here him, and Judy fighting all the time, he was mad because Judy wasn't able to have kids, and he wanted kids. They tried to have a baby for 10 years, but never was able to so they gave up. Rick began to drink whiskey heavily, and beat his

The National Childhood Survey of Children’s Heath Survey (NCSCHS) reported 40,992 youth had at least one adverse childhood experience. The survey classified an adverse childhood experience as socioeconomic hardship, divorce/separation of parent, death of parent, parent served time in jail, witness to domestic violence, victim of neighborhood

Adverse Childhood Experiences are described as traumatic or stressful events that occur under the age of 18 years. Multiple categories of childhood emotional and physical abuse were considered including Abuse, Neglect, and Household Dysfunction, each with respective subsets of criteria. A questionnaire is used to determine a person’s “ACE Score.” Depending on how many questions they answer indicating that childhood trauma was present, a numerical figure is used as an index for their score (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). This score is useful for ranking them and their susceptibility to later problems in life due to childhood adversity .

Barry's overall message in the text is to show people how not everyone's world is perfect and all that great. People's lives have flaws and not everything may turn out how it was planned. She also mentions how all people are important, even if they attend a public school. In the story when she was talking about her life at home she says, "In an overcrowded and unhappy home, it’s incredibly easy for any child to slip away" (Barry 10). By saying this she is referring to herself and saying how people need to notice how no family lives a pure life where nothing goes wrong and they all have issues like her; they may not be as bad but nothing is perfect. She is also saying how everyone needs a place to go to where people will notice and welcome them.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study was conducted by Kaiser Permanente from 1995 to 1997 (Center of Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], n.d.). ACE study is “one of the largest investigations of childhood abuse and neglect and later-life health and wellbeing” (CDC, n.d.). There were over 17,000 participants. These participants were given surveys about their childhood experiences and overall health along with physical examinations. The survey asked about three categories of adverse childhood experiences: abuse (emotional, physical, sexual), neglect (physical and emotional), and household challenges (substance abuse, mental illness, violence, divorce/separation, family members going to jail/prison). Each of the three categories had subcategories which resulted in 10 types of adverse experiences. Each participant received a score between 0-10 depending on how many experiences they had in their childhood. The study concluded the higher the score the more the person would be affected emotionally or physically. “The ACE study showed dramatic links between adverse childhood experiences and risky behavior, psychological issues, serious illnesses, and the leading cause of death (CDC, n.d.).

7 out of 10 Americans die annually due to a group of events perceived and stored during childhood known as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’S). Such ACE’s commonly include Physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical or emotional neglect, parental mental illness, substance dependence, and divorce or domestic violence. At least 67% of the American population has at least one of

The flow of the work involves a clever method employed by the writers that mixes conversational and anecdotal stories with necessary information, which is important to hold the interest of the target audiences.

In this poem, the author Robert Hayden dramatizes the conflict of a father-son relationship, inviting us to recall our past relationships with parents with him. This poem was written so the speaker can reflect on his own life and help the reader connect to him. The opening stanza sets the scene with the speaker telling us about his father’s life on Sundays. Note how the author uses imagery to show his inner feelings of coldness towards his father at time, using words like “blue-black cold” (line 2) and “cracked hands” (line 30).