Personal Narrative: Child Abuse And Neglect

I remember being taken away from my mother at age seven. My brother was only a year old when we were separated. We were ripped away from her arms and placed in foster care. I can recall that day clear as a crystal. My throat felt constricted as I yelled out for my mother, my eyes were red and puffy from all the crying, my knees bruised because I refused to be taken away. From then out my life tumbled down. I could no longer protect my brother, I could not be there to wipe my mother’s tears away. I was alone and frightened. Now that I look back at my experiences in foster care it made me stronger. As of today I am more grounded, and able to go through life with a new lense. I got to experience foster care and am able to empathize with those who have gone through it as well.

Child abuse in America is an ongoing problem and something needs to be done. There are approximately one million children abused annually in the United States. (Table 339) Cases of child abuse and neglect are reported every ten seconds, and researchers believe that there’s three times that amount that goes unnoticed. (Child Abuse: Know the Signs and Stop the Violence Against Children.) Something needs to be done for these children who are too weak and too powerless to help themselves.

“The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act” states’ that “child abuse is the leading cause of death in children under the age of eighteen.” Child abuse occurs when adults inflict violence and cruelty upon children. Abuse is any willful act that results in physical, mental, or sexual injury that causes or is likely to cause the child to be physically, mental, or emotionally impaired. Abuse happens to children of any age, sex, race, religion, and social status.

The subject of victimization and childhood trauma and neglect, especially sexual victimization is in desperate need of additional awareness despite the increase in the research literature over the past three decades. Youth who experience any form of victimization, whether it be sexual, emotional, and/or physical throughout their childhood are known to have difficulties in their childhood and adolescent development (McCuish, Cale & Corrado, 2015). The abuse they experience can be from their caregivers, sexual victimization by acquaintances and strangers, assaults by peers and can be exposed to violence in their neighborhoods (Finkelhor, Ormrod, Turner and Holt, 2009).

I was in foster care when I was 7 years old. This was hard because imagine being taken away from your parents at that young age and being put in another family. This was a challenge because this meant going to a different school with different kids I didn’t know. I always hated being the new kid at a school because being the new kid meant you didn’t know anybody and everybody always stared at you. Every school had a different way of teaching and so I always had to adjust and adapt to different environments. I went to 5 different homes throughout those 3 years because the families kept giving up on my brothers and I. So every time we moved we also moved schools and so I just started giving up on trying to make friends and started giving up

There are many things in our society today that unfortunately go overlooked. One such thing that is overlooked is the number of children who are being abused. Unfortunately these children are going through life not knowing whether or not their parents will loose their temper and perhaps kill them. There are many types of child abuse, such as physical, sexual, and emotional. Physical abuse is physical injury as a result of punching, beating, kicking, biting, shaking, throwing, stabbing, choking, hitting, burning, or otherwise harming a child. Such injury is considered abuse regardless of whether the caretaker intended to hurt the child. Sexual abuse includes activities by a parent or caretaker such as fondling a child's genitals,

Child abuse is the intentional omission of care by a parent or guardian that can cause a

Traumatizing experiences caused by poor parenting and abuse lead many to psychopathic behavior and to lifelong problems. Antisocial disorder is a common outcome to those brutal situations, causing one to not associate with anyone, to have trust issues, and causing emotional instability (Spila, Mikara, kozak, and Urbanska, 2008). Review of literature indicates that most psychologist believe that one is made, not born a psychotic. They believe that one is more influenced by their environment, yet they do think that biological factors play a role in psychopaths along with that (Ramsland, n.d.). The more traumatized you are and the more problems you face in the future is most likely related to how young you were when you were physically or mentally abused (Sullivan, 1989). Abuse that is traumatizing causes many life threatening issues later on in your life, along with problems with your personality and social life (Harper, 2007).

After the phsycilogical abuse from my parents, my only goal was to graduate and nothing further until I befriended my sister's friend. I didn't really think much of him until I discovered his past. This person came from living with a physically abusive father to living on the streets to becoming this successful person standing right infront of me. This person has shown me that no matter what background or family you come from, you can always bring yourself up. Because of this person I've been able to become who I am

“Teenagers may already know how to dial 911 it’s like we were born with it established into our minds already” said Mark, the speaker at our high school assembly. As he went on pointing out the basics; pick up the phone, hit the nine once and then the one twice and push call, if the line is busy you hang up and try again, Mark said a few things I have never been taught in my life. “Is the person you are calling for suicidal? Is the phone call for domestic violence? What if you are calling for someone you don’t know at all?” I learned when a suicidal person needs medical help you must comfort them and call 911 and keep an eye out to make sure they do not go through with their plan. When dealing with a domestic abuse situation you should always

I was a responsible seven year old, I would say, considering my mother trusted me enough to leave me in charge of my sister as a toddler when I was still a child. This was not the first time I was in charge of my sister for a short amount of time, so nobody thought anything of it. In these twenty minutes, things took a turn for the worse when I made a simple but tragic mistake; I went to the bathroom for around two minutes, at the most. I heard Mia screaming, and so my sisterly, protective instincts kicked in.

I just finish watching a movie that brought up so many memories of my past. The memories were not about my sexual abuse as a child but the feelings and actions I took on myself after the abuse. The confusion and the anger that bled with me every step I made, and how I forgot who I was to became someone unrecognizable. Its like something died inside me and I was transformed completely into this unrestrained and lifeless person.

Due to my spouse illness I had to resign from my Federal job. Since my spouses death my monthly income change from $2600 to $1800. My husband failed to sign up for Survivor Benefits Plan from his retirement. So with this, I am not receiving income from his Navy retirement. So now, most of our monthly bills are past due. I am requesting a review for mortgage assistance. My monthly debt payments are excessive and I am over extended with my creditors, Debt includes all credit cards and other debts. I do not have any cash in reserve, including all liquid assets are insufficient to maintain my current mortgage payment and cover basic living expenses at the same time. My house has been up for sale since September 2016 by owner and now I am

Child abuse consists of any act or failure to act that endangers a child’s physical or emotional health and development. A person caring for a child is abusive if he or she fails to nurture the child, physically injures the child, or relates sexually to the child (Robins). Child abuse is broken down into four major categories: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect. Aside from the abuse itself, the cost of the tragic events costs the United States billions of dollars each year. Every day, approximately 4 children in the United States die resulting from child abuse and the majority are under 5-years-old (Fromm). There are many organizations that promote preventative measures in reducing child abuse. If nothing is done,

I had just one year prior discovered I had two children (twins) I was told I was not the father of but I was and it hit me pretty hard, so hard I forgave their mother for her lie and invited them all to move in with me and make up for lost time. I was still mourning the lose of my mother who I was very close to who passed away in 2001 at the hands of cancer treatments (that 's another book) I also had not seen my other three children for 4 months because their mom was trying to make life tough for me, you know that power struggle parents who separate sometimes go through and on top of all that ! if that was not enough my twins mom who I tried to be there for was cheating on me, I found out about it and it was not long before I fell into depression, I do not want to throw my dirty laundry out at you but I need you to understand where I was in all this mentally and physically,my trucks and equipment for my business was breaking down and I was broke and unable to repair any of it because I was being squeezed for every