Who Is The Forgotten Baby Syndrome?

In Danielle Evans’s collection of short stories Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, the story “The King of a Vast Empire” talks about how traumatic events affect a family’s bond. The main trauma in this story is a car accident that haunts this family. Liddie, Terrance, and their parents got in a car accident one night. The dad was driving the car when he was going around a dark curve in the road and hit another car. The other car was stopped in the middle on the road because there was a fallen lumber in the middle of the road that their dad was trying to remove. The other car did not have their emergency lights on. When the dad hit the car, all of the kids in the backseat was killed

On July 27, 1981 Adam Walsh was in the toy department of Sears playing video games while his mom shopped in the store. This was quite common in the late seventies and early eighties when a trusting generation let their kids run wild and free. On this particular day a monster watched and waited close by for the perfect opportunity to strike. The opportunity presented itself, a small young boy, all alone. He snatched him and fled. This is every parent's worst nightmare and a horror story that griped the nation. In a matter of seconds, a child was gone and would never be seen alive again.

This book taught me just how important it is to pay attention to those around you and not just contribute to the bystander effect. In many cases throughout this story it was obvious that the there were some terrible issues going on within this family that still some how seemed to go unnoticed. Both parents being alcoholics, their son going to school with bruises and injuries daily, having to steal food from classmates and having to wear the same dirty clothes all year round. To me those all seem like obvious red flags, yet for some reason the numerous adults in this memoir who knew what

In todays society, we are forgetful and lets paint this picture as an example. Therefore, think of all the simple reminders that we do have in a vehicle. We have a reminder if we forget to put our seat belt on, if our gas is getting low, if we leave our car lights on and even if we leave the key in the ignition. These are all simple, logical and responsibilities of owning a vehicle. But if we did not have these reminders how could we remember to complete some of these tasks?

I interviewed Diana a fifty-one-year-old female who is married and has a twenty-one-year-old son who lives at home. She is the third child of three and her sister is nineteen years older and her brother is thirteen years older than her. She was always called the menopause mistake. As a senior in high school Diana’s sister got engaged to her high school boyfriend, Ken, after she discovered she was pregnant with his baby. They hurried to get married, but when she and her mom went shopping for the wedding dress, the pregnancy was discovered and called off. Diana’s Mom was pregnant at the same time as Diana’s sister was pregnant. The sister had a boy named Kenny; he and Deb grew up like siblings.

My mom died two months ago when I was sixteen. I had finally gotten the car I wanted that’s when I knew something was up. My parents didn’t have the money to pay for the insurance, or for the car itself. That’s when dad hit me.

According to the article “Child Vehicular Stroke Fact Sheet” from KidsAndCars.org, “The average number of U.S. child vehicular heat stroke deaths is 37 per year.” That is one death of a child every nine days. Although, some individuals may or may not have unintentionally left their children in the car. A majority of parents that left their child in the vehicle unknowingly did it. However, there is a small percentage of parents that knowingly left their child unattended in the vehicle. In some cases, the child even entered the vehicle on their own without the parent or caregiver noticing in time. Statistics of child vehicular heat stroke deaths reveal that 54.25% of parents unknowingly left their child in the vehicle, 11.58% knowingly left their child in the vehicle, and 33.58% of the children entered the vehicle by themselves without parents or caregivers noticing in a reasonable amount of time (Child Vehicular Heat Stroke). Some individuals, usually non-parents, believe that it is completely absurd to forget a child is in the vehicle. However, the most dangerous mistake a parent or caregiver can make is to think leaving a child alone in a vehicle could never happen to them or their family (Child Vehicular Heat Stroke). A heat stroke can be extremely lethal to young children if it is not recognized and treated in time.

Two years ago I could remember sitting in class as we discussed current topics that came on the news the night before. The topic of a baby who was born having Anencephaly condition stirred a controversial yet emotional debate. This is a condition where the rostral (head) end of the neural tube fails to close resulting in the absence of a major portion of the brain, skull, and scalp. In other words, the baby has ‘no brain’. The child was born having ‘frog-like’ features, protruding eyes, scaly skin. Also, there was the possibility that he could be blind and deaf. As we sat there sharing our own personal opinions of the situation, the question arose "what would you do if you were the parent of the child?" I started by saying I would have had an abortion the moment I realized that I was going to have a deformed child. I went on to say that I would have left "IT" at the hospital. My friends were extremely angered by the way I spoke about the baby; one got so upset that she started crying. "What have I done?" was my instant thought as I sat there heart pierced in dismay and embarrassment. She then asked the question, "What if your mom had aborted or left your brother at the hospital? What would you think of her?" In my mind, I believe that 's a different situation because his disability is different, so I thought. As I stopped to think, I looked how my de-humanized thoughts and selfish endeavors captivated my entire being. My mind was jailed with cruelty; I spoke like a barbaric

In the morning, I awoke to my daughter babbling in her room and ready for breakfast. I made her

I was disappointed that, by the next week, my son would be gone. I was disappointed that I couldn’t do more to help my son. The only thing they said we could do was “go to bed, keep as strong as possible, and check back the next day.” (12) I was disappointed that my daughter had to witness this traumatic experience. I couldn’t believe the disappointment that I felt because, while my son was in the hospital, all the media cared about was getting a good story.

The loss of an adult child is devastating just as is the death of a younger child. However, there are differences as to how both the parents react to such losses. In this case the paper focuses on loss of an adult child and how the parent copes with the situation. The paper will give insight on the situation that precedes the demise of the child such as trajectory of illnesses which is more recent. A review on how the parents deal with the loss after it occurs will be discussed as well as the various issues the parent faces. The impact on the parent after the child’s loss is also featured. There will be a summary of the findings then finally a section that will give the implications of the research and its importance to the field of psychology and an improvement in human beings

In recent times, child death in the back seat of their parent cars has become rampant. Such tragedy often leaves families broken apart and sometimes changes the lives of other relative left behind. This unfortunate death, injuries and the others that do occur among our children is, however, a shows some aspect of the larger picture. In the United States, lots of children suffer from heatstroke and other forms of illness. Children in this situation will go a long way to affect such individuals since they go through a whole lot of painful trauma. Most cases, it does happen unintentionally yet the numbers are alarming and is unacceptable.

Parents in the real world have children that die, and these parents don’t say they wish they never would have had their child. These parents simply understand that a life is still treasured even if its shorter than its supposed to be. The consequence of the decision was Ian leaving his family out of anger, Hannah dying, and Louise is left alone. For Ian watching Hannah die from an incurable disease made their whole marriage and the whole story of their shared life’s, unbearable. Louise is sad mourning the death of her daughter writing a book. In the end the death of Hannah affected both Ian and Louise tearing them apart.

Recent hot car deaths have prompted an urgent plea from parents and caregivers for new safety technology

My mom didn’t seem worried that my dad was miraculously missing. “Dinner is over everyone! Not to worry Mike is upstairs right now enjoying a nap, it was great seeing you all have a nice night,” Everyone calmed down to the sound of my mom’s soothing voice. Everyone began to get up and leave one by one. My mom closed the door behind everyone and turned around, her face quickly transformed to the way everyone reacted when they though my dad was missing.