Introduction Of A Child Called ' It ' By Dave Pelzer

In the book A Child Called It David Pelzer relives the child abuse he once experienced as a kid. David was born on December 29, 1960 in Daly City,CA. He got abused by his alcoholic mother. David felt his father was his protector so when his parents got divorced that was a big problem. Soon after they started fighting he felt like everything was his fault.

“Abuse is still seriously under reported. I was told by leading British social worker that when they hold training courses for employees, they find that a third of the females and slightly less of the males come forward to talk about their childhood experiences of being abused. Over ninety percent of parents as some time hit their children – and some people hit them several times a week – so there is a great deal of emotional hurt, fear and physical pain in the world today” (Davis 251). For this reason alone it makes perfect sense why violent crime rates are so frighteningly high.

This paper evaluates how David Pelzer develops in his memoir, A Child Called “It”. Pelzer is evaluated using Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems model, Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems model demonstrates how Pelzer’s environment impacted his development greatly. Pelzer is greatly influenced through others by how they treat him. Throughout this memoir, Pelzer is in the concrete operations stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. The reader is also able to see Pelzer’s development from preconventional morality to conventional morality using Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning.

David Pelzer, the main (and perhaps only) protagonist, has struggled with a lot throughout the book I read. The story is mainly about Dave’s determination to withstand his abusive, alcoholic mother, who will, without a second thought, beat him if he doesn’t get his chores done. Even if he does get all of his chores done, he is starved and forced to sleep on an old army cot in his basement while his family lives in the luxury of the upstairs section of the house. The writer, Dave Pelzer, changed the names of his family to keep their anonymity, which was nice of him due to what goes on in his story. This essay is about a book called A Child Called “It.”

Dave Pelzer’s book, “A Child Called It” (1995), chronicled the unforgettable accounts of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California’s history. The book is an intriguing, yet intimidating journey through the torturing childhood of the author, himself. The child, Dave Pelzer¸ was emotionally and physically tormented by his unstable mother. He was the victim of abuse in his own home, a source of ridicule at his own school, and stripped of all existence. This book left me in suspense as I waited with anticipation for the end of this little boy’s struggle to live. Throughout this paper, I will focus on the events that took place in this book and discuss my personal feelings and the effects this story had on me.

Abuse, especially child abuse, is a widely condemned social problem that remains prevalent to this day. The abuse suffered at a young age can result in an individual having a disturbed self-concept, putting them at an increased likelihood of perpetuating abuse as opposed to others who have not had similar experiences. Individuals who are exposed to abuse early on in life are more likely to have difficult relationships with others, have difficulties in school, a lower socioeconomic status, and engage in criminal behavior (Finkelhor, 2015). Factors such as these may also contribute to an intergenerational perpetuation of abuse by an individual whom has experienced familial abuse as a child. The Symbolic Interactionist perspective is useful in understanding the dynamic of abuse (Holmes, Mooney, Knox, & Schacht, 2016, p. 149) and suggests that one’s identity or sense of self is shaped by social interaction (Holmes et al., 2016, p. 13). Furthermore, this micro-sociology focuses on the psychological dynamics of individuals interacting in small groups; relating, in this case, to the familial institution (Holmes et al 2016., p. 13). In applying this sociological lens to the issue of child abuse, certain policy recommendations can be ascertained, focusing on early familial intervention.

The definition of abuse is when someone uses cruel and violent treatment to negatively affect a person repeatedly. Abuse can come in a variety of ways, such as psychological abuse, mental abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and one of the most common yet overlooked is sexual abuse. In the book A Child Called IT, David Pelzer writes the story of his childhood. A child whose whole life was surrounded by abuse, his mother would beat him and hurt him in such a way that she left him almost dead in several occasions. Sharon olds wrote a series of poems that all seemed to link up together after reading them consecutively. I go back to May 1937 is dealing with changing her existence, Little things is about focusing on enjoying small things,

A Child Called “It” is a powerful book written by Dave Pelzer about his childhood and the hardships he encountered with his family, peers, and community. Middle childhood can be a life altering point in a young child’s life, which many theorist have studied over the years. This paper will review a few of those theorist thoughts, and how their theories apply to young David’s childhood. The theorist work that will be covered will be Bronfenbrenner and his ecological systems model, Piaget’s theory of development, and lastly Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning. It is important to understand what was going through David’s mind as he dealt with this trauma and how he was able to survive it.

The book I read is called A Child Called It. It is written by Dave Pelzer. The theme of this book is to keep hope alive. You should have faith and dreams to have something to look forward to in your future especially when you feel you can’t go on any more. Like Dave, he felt trapped as if he was never going to be free. He used his dreams and illusions every time he was hurting to help him get away from the pain. This is what kept this little boy alive. He had something to reach for and never quit.

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Most parents and other caregivers do not intend to hurt their children, but abuse is defined by the effect on the child, not the motivation of the parents or caregiver.Tens of thousands of children each year are traumatized by physical, sexual, and emotional abusers or by caregivers who neglect them.Child abuse as common as it is shocking. Most of us can’t imagine what would make an adult use violence against a child, and the worse the behavior is, the more unimaginable it seems. But the incidence of parents and other caregivers consciously, even willfully, committing acts that harm the very children they’re supposed to be nurturing is a sad fact of human society that cuts

Most people have trust of over people. In A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer, A boy who needs to survive his mother abuse, Cinder by Marissa Meyer, A cyborg, Cinder, finds of that she's a lunar, a person that can alter a person's brain. Both “A child called it” and “Cinder” are similar because both the main characters are faced with weather they trust them or not. In Cinder, Peony, Cinders step sister gets a disease that is lethal and goes to the hospital, after that adri, Cinders step mother, sends Cinder to a research lab against her will so that it might find a cure to the disease. “‘ Take her,’ Said Adri.

The Lost Boy was written by David Pelzer. David pelzer was born in California and was abused by his Mother in childhood, he is currently 55 years old. The genre of this book is an autobiography because it is written by David Pelzer himself. The age group of this book is anywhere from about 13-18 the years of your life where you begin to mature. Dave is rescued from his mother. He makes a

We never know what is going through a child’s mind when being a witness of abuse, especially when they are young. When a child grows up at such horrid environment, they're view in life changes automatically making them believe that this is the way of life. As these abused children get older, they do not know how to control what they feel in the inside and end up expressing it by taking their anger out on others, simply because that’s what they have “learned” in life”. “Abused children cannot express emotions safely. As a result, the emotions get stuffed down, coming out in unexpected ways. Adult survivors of child abuse can struggle with unexplained anxiety, depression, or anger” (Child Abuse and Neglect 1).however, though, the child does not evolve into a negative environment by being abused, the path that could also lead to a young child’s mind into negativity would be witnessing any kind of abuse within the house.

When children are physically abused, they will suffer from fear, anxiety, and isolation. Physical punishment might be by kicking, punching, or by causing some harmful scars by torturing in a bad way. Some people think that it is good to use violence and ignorance with kids to make them able and strong enough to force their obstacles throughout their lives. Abusing is nothing but a waking kids, and making them awake for what they might face in the future. According to Straus (1980)” Child abuse typically refers to acting committed by parents on their children, which other members of the society view as inappropriate and harmful. If the child is being abused, he will be scared and afraid if the abuser is one of his parents. So, Violence against children is from serious social phenomena. Punishing and neglecting has a huge impact for kids because this could affect them with their whole life, and it would also cause some unwanted behaviors Any child who has been badly abused will suffer from lack of empathy that will grow up with him. Parents should find out the best ways to encourage their kids and take care of them, such as provision of health and psychological care for the