Issues related to any type of abandonment are close to my heart. I felt very sad for these kids to be in the situation they are in. It is not fair. Watching this documentary raised a lot of emotions for me. I was very touch to see the commitment of the educational and medical team. They really go above and beyond their job description. Being raised in France you do not encounter that type f relationship at school. School is about learning and respecting the educational corp. There is not such a thing as an exchange. You sit and listen. It is actually better if you do not have any questions on the material as it can reflect the inability of the teacher to pass his/her knowledge. In the documentary, it is clear that it is through the teachers’
In conclusion, many children are in need of our attention. The best we can offer them is
In the movie “Love, Etc…”, Chitra and Mahendra are both Indians and has been engaged for 2 years. Their wedding is planned to be on July 4. Chitra and Mahendra first met each other at his brothers’ wedding. They danced with each other all night and that’s how they started talking. They stay with each other in an apartment in Jamaica Hills. Chitra is 28 years of age and is a corporate paralegal. She started working straight out of college. She does not like to get yelled at or to even think she is not right. She is also very opinionated about everything. Chitra likes when things are done right then instead of when you want to do them. She is the only one working and paying the bills around the household. Mahendra is 29 years of age and currently has no job, but wants to be a law attorney. He is currently looking for a job. He is very opinionated about everything as well. Mahendra does not like to do things when people ask him to, he feels he should do them on his own or when he wants to. He does not like to clean up around the house or even wash dishes. Mahendra does not even do what his parents Daisy and Sonny. Chitra and Mahendra mothers are both nannies. Their moms have known each other for about 17 years. Chitra’s mother, Dolly are so much alike each other. Her father Vick even told Mahendra not to try to win an argument with women because you will not win. He even said that he just does what is told to him. This relationship between Chitra and Mahendra shows
In the movie Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz, two different kinds of love are exposed. The love relationship between Ilsa Lund and Rick is a more passionate relationship while the one between Ilsa and Victor Laszlo is more intimate. Love is composed of different feelings and because of that it can be expressed, as seen in Casablanca, in different ways. “The Intimate Relationship Mind”, a text by Garth J. O. Fletcher and Megan Stenswick, helps support that claim providing a scientific background on how love is shaped by those different feelings. It says that “love is composed of three distinct and basic components that each represent evolved adaptations; namely, intimacy, commitment,
Of course I knew what is was it was where children were taken away from their parents because they couldn't give them a healthy life, and if the parents showed signs of improvement they were gonna have the chance to keep their child. This short movie made me realize all the things a child can go through when going through the hardship of finding a new home. First of all the trauma a child can go through with abusive irresponsible children since children who have little support by their parents tend to not have a bright future. Second children go through the hassle of going from house to house looking for a new or temporary home, but as shown in the the movie a lot of the foster parents do not know how to handle a child's behavior when they are acting up and think they are behaving badly because they want to, but in fact may act poorly because they may be reminded of previous encounters they had with their biological parents that made them emotional. For example Zoe the foster child is given a dress by her foster mom and instead of accepting it like most young girls would it reminds her of when her father was being abusive to her mother and how her father was saying negative things about her mothers dress, therefore she did not accept it.. Obviously when her other foster parents saw the behavior Zoe showed when she was given the dress they would punish her. But this foster mom that gave her
Once the honeymoon period of the promise of new beginnings ended, the spell of being a foster parent quickly died due to the frustration that stemmed from a lack of support from the system. It was tragic, especially because I had high hopes of it working out and I became increasingly happy as it seemed it would or at least could have with the proper support. Another concern, were the weekly advertisements in which the teens had to sell themselves to prospective families. Although, the intentions behind it are noble, I feel that the youth are again being likened to merchandise for sale, only this time they’re on display which is unsettling. It almost reminded me of an escort service. Like Beam, I worry that these videos can produce false hopes and endings similar to the one Oneida
It might be difficult to accept but every child can be hurt, put at risk or harm or abused, regardless of their age, gender, religion or ethnicity.
After watching these different cases, the way they affected me is that it’s very difficult for social workers to decide to remove the child or let them go back to their house and live with their parents. For them it’s a very difficult and important decision because basically child’s life and future depends on the social worker’s decision. If they say it’s safe for the child to go back to live with his/her parents and if the abuse and neglect still continues, they put the child’s life on risk. I think the 10-year-old Matthew case stand out more than others because even though the dad was physically abusing the child, Matthew still wanted to go back to his house and live with his dad. It’s interesting that the way they were acting it felt like
The imagery and symbolism are rich and fluid, but they follow a pattern, the pattern of the sefirot. The Zohar rarely describes the entire sefirotic system. It even avoids the term sefirot and instead speaks of lights, levels, links, roots, garments of the King, crowns of the king, and dozens of other images for the individual sefirot. The reader must interpret the symbolism and identify the corresponding sefirah. The term originally meant “numbers” or numerical potencies, but in medieval Kabbalah the sefirot became stages of God’s being, aspects of divine personality. Their pattern and rhythm inform all the worlds of creation. Prior to the release of the sefirot, God is unmanifest, referred to as Ein Sof, Infinite. God as Infinity cannot be
Daughters of non-institutionalized mothers are more vulnerable and they are at high risk of sexual abuse and molestation from the family members and the external world. At the same time they are always in the shadow of verbal and physical abuse of the sick mother. They are not even safe inside the family. These girls are unable to raise their voice, nor protect against abuse. They are facing multiple barriers from the family and the society. It was mainly hidden behind the four walls of the house. Those within the family and the victims did not wish to speak about it.
The film starts off with the protagonists’ encounter in a baseball tournament. Invitation communication begins with Gary asking Brooke if she would like to have a hotdog. On relationship meaning level, it reflects Gary’s interest in knowing Brooke. By the end of the tournament, Gary tries to ask her out, exploring the possibilities for a relationship with her. Despite Brooke calling him “crazy”, she still chuckles and responds to Gary’s pick-up lines, hinting that Brooke is not totally uninterested. It is quickly followed by the opening credits with intimate photos that captured the intensifying communication stage between the protagonists. Their long term commitment takes the form of cohabitation, thus completing the escalation phase of
Lee cites the stories of three foster care children; Elisa, who has been in foster care over a decade, has been abused both mentally and physically and had two adoptions fall through; Three year old Thierry who the courts have yet to determine whether he should have been separated from his mother eighteen months ago; and Alexandria, wasn’t cleared for an adoption by her foster parents of four years and remains a foster child.
Even in the most successful foster care situations, children will still experience a sense of loss,
The documentary was extremely saddening. I cried watching it. I cried hearing that seven-year-old Gabriel creamed “I deserved to die” before hang himself in the foster parents home. I cried learning that he was on countless medication prescribed by uncaring psychiatrist who admits seeing him only five minutes before increasing his poisoning medication. I was also happy to see some of the kids find the peace and happiness. The kids who showed improvement were adopted by caring parents who made those kid felt loved and cared. A good night kiss before the bed, a calm wakeup calls from the adoptive mom in the mornings, homemade health food and of course getting rid of the poisoning drugs and replacing them with the love and therapy made a positive
I need to start by admitting that this video was difficult to watch! Within a few seconds of watching the video I was reminded of the level of difficulty of the social work profession. As described in the video, Child Protection Services’ role is to protect children from neglect and abuse (Mierendorf, 2000). Similarly, social workers play several significant and complex roles within child advocacy. Social workers need to ensure the safety and well-being of children and be their voice when they are being silenced or maltreated. Social workers need to identify the abuse and address the situation accordingly. This could be particularly difficult when is in the best interest of children to be removed from their
While watching the video Unforgotten; Twenty-Five Years After Willowbrook, I was shocked and disturbed at the abuse that the children were expose to; this was a school and seeing what went on behind the walls of Willowbrook was very upsetting. I just don’t understand how or why someone would do this to another human being; especially when that individual deserves respect and needs extra attention from their caregivers. I am truly grateful that over the years this type of behavior is no longer tolerated and things have changed for the better.