The Long Standing Effects On Children

Raising children is one of the most important responsibilities in any society. Today, working parents have many options, but what about those children who have neither a mother nor father? What about those children who come from broken and abusive homes? In such cases there are often few choices. Parentless children may be placed in orphanages or in foster homes. Ideally, foster care offers children more personalized attention than would normally be available at a public or private situation. However, orphanage care is notoriously uneven. While some children are indeed in loving homes, others find themselves neglected or

In the United States 21% of all children are living below the federal poverty line. 2.9 million cases of child abuse and neglect are reported every year in the United States. 428,000 children are in the foster care system, and 107,918 foster children are waiting to be adopted. The foster care system is temporary out of home care for neglected, abused and impoverish children under 18. While the foster care system has all positive ideas, they fall short in providing certain needs for these children. Kids not only in America but all over the world that are living in poverty, are abused, neglected, and have an unstable home life. Nobody wants to live a life like that, especially not a child. They don’t know how to support themselves on their own, they need a family and a guardian that will take care of them, support, and love them.

For many years, foster care has been a difficult subject throughout our society. When the idea of foster care comes to mind, many immediately think of screaming children, distressed parenting and uphill battles. Before foster care existed in the United States, orphaned children were sent to orphanages. While these institutions were often the best option available to children with nowhere else to go, they often lacked the necessary staff, structure and resources to adequately care for all of the children in need. As a result, some orphanages were overcrowded, and children lived in poor conditions. Some children even died due to the lack of sufficient care (Adoptions, 2017). In order to give children better living situations, the United

Everywhere across the world, more and more children are being placed into foster care or a welfare type system. Foster care can benefit children or harm them; the effects of foster care differ for every individual. These types of systems often have a major effect on young children’s physiological state. Children entering in foster care are often malnourished and have untreated health problems. A high percentage of children who are placed in these types of systems have mental health, physical health, and/or developmental issue which often originates while the individuals are still in the custody of the biological parents. Children in foster care should be provided with a healthy and nurturing environment which often provides positive long term results. The age of children in a foster care varies across the world, but it is often seen that majority of these children are young (George para. 1). There are more young children in the system because younger children require more adequate care than older children that are already in the system. Placing these children in welfare systems is supposed to be a healing process for them. Although this is supposed to be a healing process, statistics say these children have a negative experience while being in these systems, but this is not always the case. A number of children in foster care fall sucker to continuous neglect and recurrent abuse with the lack of nurturing and an unstable environment. These same children often have unmet

An issue like this affects the whole world, whether people realize it or not. If orphans have no one to look after them, sometimes they can become scared or upset- or even violent and reckless.

Well, what about the children that live in orphanages or just left out on the streets? What is there outcome supposed to be, helpless, uneducated? Every child is valuable and of great importance just like you and I. Every person is the same and none is better than another. What makes orphanage children different than us? Adoption has become a big need throughout the years world wide. It is sad to think that so many children are in need but it is the truth. There are differing requirements for each country that tend to discourage adoption rather than promote it. Universal standards for adoption are essential to encourage families to

Due to the sudden birth rate, the country’s economic growth sank. Parents, who were unable to take care of their own, abandoned thousands of children, leaving them in state’s care. Children were also institutionalized into inhumane orphanages. These institutionalized children, who often had inadequate sanitation, nutrition, medical care and an ineffective nurturing environment, were at high risk for impaired health, development difficulties, behavioral aberrations and attachment problems. The orphanage director In the program ABC's 20/20 explained that the children were bound to prevent self-mutilation. It was a necessary measure, he said, “Because the facility did not have staffing to provide individual caretakers for each child and had little

Along with the neglect that is pressed upon the children, the abuse rates in these homes are very high. Many reports of abuse and even death have been brought to the media’s attention over the past few years. One popular case was of two nurses that came home to the orphanage after a night of drinking to crying little ones. In an attempt to muffle the sounds of the cries the two women stuffed one child into a tub with a blanket over him. The other ones were stuffed in covers and put into a closet. It was not until the next morning when the next crew came in that the three children were found. Two had severe injuries afterward and one child, the youngest died.

In today’s society, over 143 million of children worldwide are growing up without parents (The United Nations Children’s Fund, 2006). This is largely due to homelessness, wars, natural disasters, and disease which produce many unadopted children (Bartholet & Smolin, 2012). Unparented children find themselves at a high-level danger of perception, deficient care, mistreatment and exploitation, and their welfare is regularly inadequately monitored. Many Children without parental care are placed in terrible institutions, where they receive less personal attention and insufficient care environments can diminish children’s feeling and societal advancement and leave them defenceless to exploitation, sexual mistreatment and corporal savagery (The

Possible long-term effects are things such as; depression, mood disorders, eating disorders, and behavioral issues. There could also be a grudge against the mother for “letting” it happen and the denial/mistrust. The effect it will have on personal development which is such an important aspect of being young and growing, abuse can greatly affect proper self-development, self-image, trust, relationships. Which goes along with the possible issues that can arise with intimacy later on in life. Lastly, trust and attachment issues in general. Attachment issues to individuals that are “helping” them and are “the good” people in the child’s life. Also, trust issues later on with the mother, trusting whether she will believe the child in later events/situations.

One International Non-Governmental Organization that works on behalf of human rights issues is Lumos. Their mission and overall goal is to support children that are living in institutions worldwide, while also fighting to find them families so they can live a happy life and have that ability to build a better future. The organization puts focus on some of the issues that exist out there for the 8 million orphans who currently don’t have a home and, showcases the fact that these children need help. It also contains details which state that institutionalization can damage a child’s brain development, shattering the understanding that allows a person to know right and wrong, displaying the importance of the cause

A great amount of children are sold and inducted by familiar faces of the neighborhood, family members and/or guardians, and friends of the family. According to the Ark of Hope for Children Child Trafficking Statistics, “Traffickers maybe neighbors, friends, returnees, and agricultural operators, owner of a business, diplomats, and even families (2014).” Statistics show that families can’t care for children and sell them because of “unemployment issues, unhappy home situations: abuse, debt, addicts in the family, and large sums of money” (AOHFC 2014). The family members who do sell their children are not aware of the physical and mental abuse that their child may go through while other guardians may not care because of the money intake.

Children everywhere are being abused by their parents whether it be physical or emotional abuse. In order to help prevent child abuse, one must first understand some of the reasons that parents abuse their children. There is no excuse to abuse one’s child and there have been many studies conducted in order to make correlations between what causes child abuse. A National Incidence Study (NIS-3), was conducted and found a correlation between family income and child abuse. “Other factors include family structure and size, poverty, alcohol and substance abuse, domestic violence, and community violence are contributing factors to child abuse and neglect.”(Rein). All these factors are very stressful and many parents turn to violence to deal with a wailing child. Also, children in poor health are at a much higher risk of being abused or neglected. More and more children are being abused as substance abuse is on the rise. Often times the severity of

“The seriousness of emotional deprivation: It is not difficult to understand how children who have suffered from malnutrition or starvation need food and plenty of care in their bodies are to recover so they can go on to lead normal lives. If, however, the starvation is severe enough, the damage will be permanent and they will suffer physical impairments for the rest of their lives. Likewise, children who are deprived of emotional nurturing require care and love if their sense of security and self-confidence is to be restored. However, if love is minimal and abuse high, the damage will be permanent and the children will suffer emotional impairments for the rest of their lives,” said by Mark Z. Danielewski, April 11th, 2014. The issue of child abuse dates all the way back to colonial times in 1809 before organized child protection began. Back in this time child abuse wasn’t recognized by people as a serious issue so many people were able to kill children without harsh consequence. For example in 1810 a woman was arrested for killing a newborn child and admitted to several people that she killed the baby, even so, she was found not guilty most likely because the jury thought was psychotic. Many children went without protection and were killed, raped, kidnapped, and tortured during this time and still this wasn’t seen as a high priority issue in the United States. It wasn’t until 1875 that the world's first organization that was completely devoted to child protection came

Marx points out that man is objectified by alienation, to the institutions they belong to, and “he can only affirm himself and produce objects in practice by subordinating his products and his own activity to the domination of an alien entity” (Bhushan, Sachdeva and marx 2012/1844). I believe that this quote from Marx is relatable to the beings in the social structures of institutions created for those who are orphaned. Children in these institutions such as group homes, foster care, and orphanages, are objectified and degraded to the status of the institutions they are placed in. they experience alienation as they are dominated by the forces of these institutions, as they experience estrangement from living in these institutions that form a subculture of society, arranging almost a separate social class from the rest of society.