Summary Of The Ripple Effects Of Child Disability

In the United States today, there are over fifty-one million disabled adults and children. Throughout our nation’s history, we have not allowed the best treatment and care for these numerous citizens. But, in the recent past, the government has passed laws, made exceptions, and thoroughly tried to provide accommodations to these people with special needs. While this is true, America, as a whole, still views this group as strange or different. Even though this is exceptionally normal, it is not correct. The United States needs to be opened up to the truth about their fellow American citizens. The people of America ought to understand that these disabilities affect not only those who are disabled, but that it affects the family and friends

The safety net should have support systems available to aid in the family’s ability to restructure its dynamics and come to terms with a new reality. When this does not happen for a family, it leaves them unsure of the next steps to take for their child, emotionally exhausted, and with fewer economic resources. “When safety nets are smaller and less certain, families serve more prominent roles as educators, healthcare providers, personnel managers, and social workers for their members” (Bogenschneider, 2014, p. 115). As many families in America face caring for their family members in situations such as autism, aging parents, children with disabilities, and others who are chronically ill it is time to implement an effective government safety net to help families restructure and face the challenges as an cohesive family

society seems to be that disabled people cannot be effective parents. Disability-lawyer Carrie Ann Lucas shared her experiences with USA Today (2012), witnessing “parents with paralysis be threatened with removal of their children, deaf parents punished for using sign language with their hearing children, and blind parents told that a social worker can’t possibly fathom how they could parent a newborn.” Lucas adds that “when families do need intervention, it is often because the services they need are not available outside a punitive social services case.” It is important to note the unfair standards of independence that disabled parents face in the U.S. Research shows that these parents can often prove themselves competent with some support services, but child welfare systems and the general public may question that aid, as they may be seen as a lack of the self-sufficiency valued in U.S. culture. Utilizing multiple systems of support can lead to improved parenting and family cohesion, and so should be viewed as a benefit instead of a deficiency in an individual’s capacity to provide parental care. In fact, according to the 2012 NCD report, disabled parents whose abilities in this area are questioned often confront inappropriate or unfair assessments (Smith,

The interdependence model of disability states that higher levels of social support for disabled means more opportunities for disabled people to be successful in professional lives and to live healthier, longer lives (Helliwell, 2001). However, the most important aspect of interdependency model lies in the fact that not only disabled people benefit from having higher levels of social support. Communities with higher levels of social support and interdependence are found to be healthier than communities with lower levels of social support (White et al., 2010). The idea of benefits to both disabled

The topic being addressed in this article is the changing association among marriage, work, and child poverty in the United States. There has been numerous research conducted on the importance of marriage and work and the link that it has to child poverty and the negative association that has been shown through research. However over many decades, there has been a transformation that marriage and work is no longer a negative association with child poverty. This study thoroughly examined the relationships between marriage, work, and the relative measures from 1974-2010 using 10 waves of the U.S. Census Current Populations Survey data from the Luxembourg Income Study. The influence of demographic characteristics that relate to poverty shows that marriage negative association with child poverty has declined whereas work’s negative association with child poverty has increased.

Poor health and disability will affect a child’s social and emotional development because they may not be able to do things that their friends can do and not feeling included. Disability can have a positive affect for other children who are friends with a disabled child because they learn empathy and to accept their disability, not just point and stare when they see a disabled person. It also helps the disabled child to feel included with their peers. It also helps the children to learn to care for each other.

If a child has a disability that restricts movement or requires them to use a wheelchair they will find it a lot harder to participate in the same activities as other children. This exclusion means that they will find it more challenging to develop relationships than their peers. If a child requires a wheelchair children may see them as different and may not want to interact with them in the same way they would with others. Consequently, they may find that they are being treated differently to other children. This will therefore harm the child’s social development and lower their self-esteem.

However, when you incorporate an illness with this disparity, the financial burden of this life circumstance can be overbearing. Borrero et al., (2015) also found that most families try to prepare for a pregnancy by getting their finances in order prior to conceiving. However, this family had no precognition that after they became pregnant, the father would be injured, therefore reducing their income. In conclusion, as their nurse, I was able to assess their family dynamics and conclude that by providing them with additional places to get assistance, this family was able to achieve an acceptable well-being until the father was rehabilitated and back on his feet

There are 11.4% of people who have any type of disability and 4.8% of people who are civilian veterans. Those include period of service in the Gulf War, Vietnam era veterans, Korean War veterans and World War II (American Fact Finder, 2010). Having a family can definitely help those who are disabled. According to the city data, a family development consists of 32.8% married couples with children and 15.3% female householder, no husband present. Additionally for the population 15 years and over, 44.2% have never been married, 36.8% are now married, 2.9% are separated, 5.7% are widowed and 10.4% are

In a further 1935 study it was found that families whose income dropped from comfortable to poor suffered over 45 percent higher amounts of disability illness as compared to those who had no income drop. Those who dropped from confortable to moderate showed a 10 percent higher disabling illness rate than the comfortable group that had experienced no drop in income. The group that had dropped from moderate to poor showed a 17 percent higher illness' rate than those who were in moderate circumstances throughout the 4 years.5

Peter Singer, claims that “people with very severe disabilities are likely to live lives that are not as good” this blanket statement has raised a lot of questions, whereby, Singer defends his argument by claiming that people with disabilities do not have the same prospects as those born without disabilities. Singer’s claim is based on his assumption that disabled people are not able to achieve a decent level of wellbeing. He argues that people innately believe that disabled individuals are not capable of achieving a normal level of wellbeing due to, his idea, that mothers would not knowingly harm (disable) their children.

There are several issues related to parental reactions to having a child with a disability. Having a child with a disability can have an effect on family dynamics as well as a change in work habits, some parents have to work fewer hours, change jobs, or become a stay at home parent in order to properly care for their child’s needs. Parents cope with their guilt, feelings, and public reactions

Porterfield, S.L., McBride, T.D., (2007) stated that children who have special needs are more likely to live in poor families. The authors used a bivariate profit model to estimate whether a child needed specialized services and whether that child accessed those services. The variables included family income, educational level, health insurance coverage and perceived need for specialized services. Data was used from the 2001 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs. When parents are educated this can cause poor health for a child. This lack of education can be related to low family income. Poverty can cause issues for a family such as lack of health insurance, underinsurance, and reduce their access to services. Poverty

While analyzing the article by Parish et. al (2008) the reader could tell that having a child with a disability can cause financial hardships effecting the family’s meals, housing, and telephone services. As the research suggests 28% of children with disabilities are below the national poverty level (Parish et. al, 2008). The research would suggest the biggest barrier for families with a child with a disability would be money. Therefore parents may not be able to pay for services that could benefit their child.

Disabled people include veterans, survivors of a traumatic experience and people born with medical conditions. In one of the biggest work economies, China is left with a problem when the number of disabled people increases because of businesses and employers not hiring people with disabilities, this problem became a conflict because of China's one-child rule (Wrest). China conducted screenings for early-stage disability in children in 1,958 healthcare institutions in 1,662 counties, “48,000 children aged between 0-6 were diagnosed as disabled” ( Statistical Communique on the…). This is a prime example of how disabled people are unprivileged, they are not able to support their parents because of unemployment.