Effects Of Child Sexual Abuse In The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

Moreover, Rosemary takes advantage of the children’s personalities by asking to forgive her for her extraordinary selfishness. Although the children are provided with a voice to forgive, Rosemary’s voice overpowers their identity. In comparison, psychological analysis supports how difficult it is to identify emotional and psychological abuse. The fact that the children have undergone such a heartbreaking experience, it does not mean the experience can be easily identified or treated because of its abstract nature. The victims of emotional abuse can only tell a story; they cannot transfer an exact replica of their experience to the person that is treating them. Jeannette and her siblings too, can only tell a story of how emotional abuse took away their voice. That being said, victims of emotional abuse in reality often should require psychological therapy, but, The Glass Castle optimistically shows that the children did not require treatment because the author herself seeks treatment through writing the book

Many children are affected by child abuse or neglect across the globe. The book The Glass Castle written by Jeannette Walls is about herself and the time set is in her childhood. In the book Jeannette talks about all the hardships that she and her siblings had to face while growing up with a very poor family and always being on the move. In the book it's very evident that Jeannette and her siblings face many types of abuse and neglect from many events that take place inside The Glass Castle. The Walls children should have been taken away from child protective services.

Dave Pelzer once said “Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul” (Goodreads). Indeed, most parents and other caregivers do not intentionally hurt their children. However, many children each year are traumatized by physical, sexual, emotional, psychological abuse, and neglect. In the memoir The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls reveals that she cannot lift the burden of her childhood experiences. Throughout writing The Glass Castle, the author tries to comfort herself to relieve her pain, examine her past and portray to her readers how damaging the legacy of abuse and neglect can be.

Rex asks Jeannette to come to a “business meeting” with him so he can repay her for the money he spent on booze. He takes her to a bar to basically prostitute her for money. When the family moves to Welch and move in with Rex’s family the kids and Erma have an incident where touches Brian inappropriately. The girls come to his rescue only to be scolded by their parents. Jeannette and Stanley have an incident where he tries to touch her inappropriately, when Jeannette tells her mom about it, her mom feels bad for Stanley and tells Jeannette if she’s ok then nothing bad

19). A great majority of children that are sexually abused will show moderate to severe symptoms at some point in their life (Hornor, 2010). The degree of symptomatic behavior depends on the type and severity of sexual abuse, the age and gender of the child, the age and gender of the perpetrator, the relationship between the child and the perpetrator, accompanying physical abuse, and the number, frequency, and duration of abuse (Bahali et al., 2010). Short-term effects of CSA include: impulsive behavior (aggressiveness, hostility), emotional distress (anxiety, fear, and somatic complaints), low self-esteem, dissociative symptoms (amnesia, forgetfulness, dreaming, multiple personality disorder, and fainting), and conversion disorder (Bahali et al., 2010). Long-term effects include: post-traumatic stress disorder, depressive disorder, sexual dysfunction, borderline personality disorder, somatization, eating disorders, self-destructive or suicidal behavior, repeated victimization, criminal behavior, substance abuse and prostitution (Bahali et al., 2010). In agreement, Ozbaran et al., (2008) reported that sexually abused children have a high incidence of behavior problems including anxiety, depression, attention problems, aggression, social problems, social withdrawal, and somatization. Genital CSA is

While child sexual abuse survivors may show symptoms of PTSD as well as symptoms that may include anxiety, low self esteem, difficulty setting safe limits with others and relationship problems. Survivors may have bad dreams. They may act out aspects of the abuse in their play. They might show other fears and worries. Young children may lose skills they once learned and act younger than they are. For example, an abused child might start wetting the bed or sucking his or her thumb. Some sexual abuse survivors show out-of-place sexual behaviors that are not expected in a child. Sexual abuse can be very confusing

Child Abuse is the act of someone who looks after a child, like a parent or relative, who decides to inflict injury, emotional trauma, or even death upon that person. In the memoir, The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls, there is most definitely multiple acts of child abuse that was brought upon the Walls children. There are four types of child abuse. There is physical, neglect, emotional, and sexual. The parents used more neglect than the others on their children. The acts of abuse that were brought upon the children should have resulted in them being taken away by Child Protective Services.

The effects of childhood sexual abuse carry on with the children forever. To what extent and to what effect does abuse have on children during adulthood? What are the main issues that adults have been abused suffer from in adulthood? Do they have more of a physical issue with preforming with their partner in the bedroom or do they have more of a mental block due to their trauma? The world had been asking these questions for far too long and we need answers on how helping the children of our world. The questions that have been stated have been answered through the two articles that will be summarized below.

Childhood sexual abuse is a serious concern that has been associated with long term effects amongst survivors. Using secondary data, this qualitative piece of research explores the long term effects of child sexual abuse in later adult life. The purpose for this study is to create awareness to professionals that sexual abuse effects continue long after the abuse stops thus, sufficient knowledge on the characteristics of the abuse.

Child sexual abuse is an ever-present, psychologically and physically damaging event that occurs daily to hundreds of children. Unfortunately, child sexual abuse is not going away any time soon and the lives of so many precious children are altered forever. These abused children often grow up to be psychologically damaged adults with emotional, cognitive and physical issues that may never be able to be conquered. Far too many adults live with the pain of their secret and it can be quite debilitating. Adults who were abused as children may have many problems in their

Jeannette Walls’s memoir is the heart wrenching story of her past. Walls had a very troubled upbringing which consisted of her alcoholic father, careless mother, malicious schoolkids and abusive extended family. The horrible things that Jeannette Walls went through in her childhood are important social issues that should have more light shed on them by the media.

Family violence is always disheartening. Childhood sexual abuse is by far the worse. There are many forms of childhood sexual abuse. The sexual abuse can involve seduction by a beloved relative or it can be a violent act committed by a stranger. Childhood sexual trauma causes psychological, interpersonal, and behavioral. This paper will show a first account of the impact of childhood trauma.

In the book Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls she describes the many hardships that she faced as a young child. Jeanette struggled with things like an alcoholic father, a mentally ill mother, poverty, and sexual abuse. Throughout the memoir, Walls is describing her life as she remembers it. Their family was always doing the “skedaddle” when things were not going as planned. The book started with Jeanette's first memory when she was burned very badly at a young age. The book progresses throughout Jeanette’s life and she realizes just how wrong her family treats her. From her Not-So-Parent parents to her sexually abusive uncle, she faced many hardships growing up. Her father was an alcoholic who could never hold a job. He always promised Jeanette

Childhood sexual abuse is one form child abuse that includes a wide range of actions between a child and an adult or older child. It is a topic that is receiving much attention and concern in recent years. In this paper several points will be discussed regarding childhood sexual abuse. We must first understand what sexual abuse and who is at a higher risk for being abused. It is also important to know and be aware of signs and symptoms of childhood sexual abuse. But most importantly the long term effects that childhood sexual abuse can cause should be well understood so that early intervention and recovery can be implemented. A case study conducted in Australia proves that childhood sexual abuse does not stop when the abuse stops but it very well impacts the survivor throughout adulthood. This further stresses the importance of early intervention and the importance of raising awareness about this type of abuse.

Research has shown that being molested at a young age effects the children in their adolescent years. The numbers of sexually abused children are increasing every day. After conducting research of molestation in children aged 5 to 15, the outcome of children is conflicted by poor self-esteem, becoming depressed and their behavior patterns are affected. After 1 year of research their actions changed and lead them to becoming shy or violent. If the child was abused they would try to act tough and become violent, if they were just touched they would become shy and it would be hard to open to everybody. Depending on who molested the child it would change the way they would communicate with everybody around them. After studying the children from a broad age range of 5 to 15, and from different places around the world, most of the time the molesters were known to their victims. With 31% of females and 28% of being males, being molested within their homes. The girls reported a higher nu