• to be witness to the process of dying; • loss of love, affection and material support; • an

One of the effects parental abandonment is the child living with the fear of being abandoned. Such a child will avoid relationships in the fear that they may not always work as they always feel in denial. This factor affects their life and as a result will lead to other effects as the child will always be stressed. The stress leads to depression overall. The effects of depression are poor performance; this factor of poor performance is displayed in their academic life where in most cases the child will be continuously recording poor grades even when the best learning

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 the loss of an adult child and how the parent copes with the situation. The paper will give insight into the situation that precedes the demise of the child such as the trajectory of illnesses. 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 will also feature. There will be a summary of the findings, then a section that will give the implications of the research and its importance to the field of psychology, and finally an as well as focusing on the bigger picture of loss with older parents who have lost their children.

Abandonment indicates a parent’s choice to have no part in his or her offspring’s life. This includes failure to support the child financially and emotionally, as well as failure to develop a relationship with his or her child. Sadly, parental abandonment leaves a child with doubt and uncertainty about the future. Throughout his or her life, this particular child could suffer from lasting questions of self-worth. In the opposite direction, the child could learn to resent his or her parents and remain incapable of trusting anyone. Regardless, intentional negligence of children leaves them with an unbearable pain that they must carry around for the rest of their lives. Child-care and the consequences

Living with a parent suffering from a mental illness can have huge negative effects for the developing child. It has been proven numerous times that there is a genuine link between parental mental illness and its adverse effects for children, e.g. Rutter, 1966, Cleaver et all, 1999. These effects can often manifest themselves as anxiety, self-esteem issues, poor relationships, educational underachievement, and emotional and behavioural problems. It should be noted that an extremely low percentage of mentally unwell parents intentionally abuse their children physically or emotionally. Another interesting facet of the parent-child relationship within the context of mental health, is that oftentimes, the child of a mentally unwell parent can often develop the same mental illness as the parent.

Millions of children are living without parents around the world and they need help. Over 153 million youths around the world are without one or both parents, and 7 million of them are in institutional care (qtd. in “Children’s Statistics”). Worldwide, minors are suffering from living without a family and a stable relief system. International adoption, although often in the limelight, is on a slight decline and domestic adoption is increasing. Despite the fact that the percentage of people considering any form of adoption has decreased from 2007 to 2013, the percentage of foster care adoptions has experienced more growth than international and private adoptions (“BAAF Adoption

In a study by Fawzy & Fouad (2010), among 294 children ages 6-12 years old in 4 orphanages 21% had depression, 45% had anxiety and 23% had low-esteem, this study concluded that there is high rates of emotional problems in children under foster care.

Despite the fact that many are unaware of it, many teens are suffering from abandonment trauma. Abandonment trauma occurs in people all across the world, yet it is going unnoticed by so many. The trauma results from someone losing a loved one to death, a break up, a divorce or perhaps a parent leaving the family. Childhood abandonment is a good start to focus because it is often where the root of the grief and issues come from. When those who suffer- notably the teens and children- from abandonment go unaware for so long, their grief process is more difficult and coping or moving on is as well. There are too many ways that abandonment trauma affects a teens life for it to go unnoticed.

The purpose of this study is to review literature related to the effects of parental death on children. Children who experience the death of a parent is considered an at risk population for psychological, behavioral, and social problems. There are many factors relating to the way children adjust to parental death. Some of these factors include the age of the child,

Parental loss and separation has been connected to a variety of adverse early experiences, including family conflict, socioeconomic disadvantage, neglect and abuse (Rutter, 2006). Exposure to such adversity may lead to a cascade of problematic social development that results in increased vulnerability to psychosis (Read et al, 2005).

The changes a young adults body is going through puberty can already be stressful and even cause depression. Depression is having feelings of severe despondency and dejection. Some may even consider depression a disease. Depression is not unheard of in our society today. There are various stressors that can cause depression. Adolescents have a lot on their plate emotionally and physically. Stressors have a severe impact on adolescents, especially pubertal timing, family stressors and school stressors. Depression is so common, it often goes unnoticed, which can cause many health problems.

The researchers advance the scientific knowledge base by adding to the current knowledge, contributed to the theory, and met the qualifications for a valuable research (Capella, 2016). According to Reising et al., (2016), the study was to address parental depression, social economic status (SES), and community disadvantage for internal and external issues in children and adolescents. Also, taking to account that parental negligence is also a factor that is connected to the internal and external problems in children and adolescents. In addition, concurring to the previous research (Fear, et al., 2009) (Flynn & Rudolph 2011), (Lewis, Collishaw, Thapar, & Gordon, 2014), (McCarthy, Downes, & & Sherman), & (Sondheimer, MD, 2010), all came into

The first disorder common in orphan children and young adults is attachment disorder. Attachment disorder can be described as an psychological illness found in children that have issues with attachment.

Depression in adolescence is common but widely unrecognized worldwide. The encumbrance is highest in low-income and middle-income countries. Depression is associated with substantial present and future morbidity, and heightens suicide peril. The most vigorous risk factors for melancholy in adolescents are a family history of depression and exposure to psychosocial stress. Inherited peril, develop phrenic factors, sex hormones, and psychosocial adversity interact to increment risk through hormonal factors and associated

Proper family environment plays an important role in the life of children. Nobody can deny the important role of parents in developing balanced and harmonious development of personality. But unfortunately cruel fortune deprives some children of the sympathetic affectionate parental care. These children are known as orphaned children. An orphan is a child permanently bereaved of his or her parents. In common usages, an orphan does not have any surviving parent to care for him or her. Because of parental deprivation some children are reared in destitute homes and in orphanages. This group of children is termed as institutionalised orphan children. These

Depression a word we’re familiar with especially when it comes to adults, we know adults get depress and we understand the reasons, with the high demands in life it’s not uncommon to get lost in the shuffle. Depression in adult is something we have known for many years, but what has surprised many of us is that adolescents also get depressed. I myself still don’t fully understand the reasons why or how this happens. I see it very often adolescent coming in to the ER because they are depressed and want to hurt themselves, and each and every single time I’m shock. What could be so bad in their lives that would make them think they have no way out? This is the reason why I choice this topic, I want to learn more of how this disease affects so many children and teens and what we can do to stop it.