This year, Tariji Gordon should have just had her seventh birthday. Instead, the foster family that she lived with and her siblings are mourning the fourth anniversary of her death. Tariji was born on March 6th in 2011, she was murdered, at the age of two, by her mother on February 6, 2014. The mother, Rachel Fryer, gave birth to seven other children other that Tariji. Unfortunately, Tariji was not the only victim of Fryer’s abuse and neglect, and much of this maltreatment, including her death, could have been avoided, had the case been handled and monitored properly.
This book raised awareness to authorities on the kind of treatment happening and proposed a change for foster institutions and homes to be monitored. The story began by Ms. Rita, Jennings’s mom, walking Jennings to an orphanage called Home of the Angels. My initial reactions after reading the first chapter was how a mother could just leave her kid with anybody. The book immediately gained my
My partner is Cathryn Cusano, she has lived in Easton, Pennsylvania throughout her entire life. Cathryn has a love for softball and has played ever since she was a little girl. During Cathryn’s senior year of high school she had multiple offers to play softball for elite colleges in the area. She started out having an amazing season, the team was also thriving which eventually resulted in them making it to the playoffs. It was the first round of playoffs and Cathryn was on first base, one of her teammates was up to bat.
The Cellar by Natasha Preston is about 16 year old girl named Summer who is the main character in the story. In Summer’s small town where there is no excitement ,something finally happens and it involves Summer. On one night Summer was kidnapped and was took to a cellar and to her surprise she isn’t the only one. Along with three other girls named Rose,Poppy,and Violet, who have been down in the cellar. All four of the girls know one thing they have to survive and that is to stay alive.
As seen in the true Lifetime movie, Abducted: The Carlina White Story, in August 1987 twenty- five year old Ann Pettway had made an unthinkable decision, to abduct a newborn and raise it as her own. After going through her third miscarriage less than a month earlier and being told by the doctor that she would never be able to carry a baby full-term, she refused to accept the truth. It was nineteen days later when she would enter the same Harlem Hospital in New York City that she had her miscarriage at and pose as a nurse to “take matters into her own hands” as she had said while giving herself a pep talk in the bathroom. Throughout that night, while posing as a nurse, she walked the halls of the hospital’s children’s ward scanning for a newborn baby to take as her own.
Whether dreams have a positive or negative effect on people, some pursue the dream until it has been achieved or has faded away. All dreams have the ability to affect people and those around them. In the novel Of Mice and Men two men are journeying to their new job on a ranch. When they get to the ranch, they meet many people and learn some of their dreams. The two men, George and Lennie, also have a dream to have their own ranch so that they do not have to worry about working.
The poem “White Lies” by Natasha Trethewey tells us her story about growing up being biracial. In stanza 1 lines 2-3 it states “I was growing up light-bright, near-white, high-yellow, red-boned.” She could pass as a white girl because she was so lightly complected that people thought she was white. Natasha was raised on the poor side of town by the rail road tracks, which is where most of the black kids lived. She went to school where the classrooms were mixed with black and white students.
Through some of the most unimaginable situations, a human mind will do whatever it can to keep itself alive. The novel The Child Finder by Rene Denfield tells the story of young Madison Culver’s disappearance in Oregon’s Skookum National Forest and the journey it took for Naomi, a private investigator, to find her and bring her back to her parents. Madison had been found and kidnapped for three years by a deaf trapper living in the forest named Mr. B. Three years after Madison’s disappearance, Naomi started the investigation looking for Madison. Moreover, where Madison had gone missing was close to where Naomi grew up. Naomi had also been kidnapped when she was young, but she was taken in as a foster child by Mrs. Cottle.
They often act in a indiscriminate fashion toward adult. Many exhibit extreme behavior problems, such as hiding or hoarding food, excessive eating or drinking, rumination, self-stimulating and repetitive behaviors, and sleep disturbance. Despite excessive appetites, these children may fail to gain weight or grow normally while in placement. Unfortunately, these children frequently experience a succession of foster homes because their extreme behaviors and lack of emotional reciprocity challenge abilities of foster parents. (Simms, et al).
Dr. Bruce Perry began his book The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook – What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing with a statement about children and their resilience. Much like what we discussed in class, Dr. Perry touched on how children were thought to be naturally resilient and that they seemed to bounce back quickly. However, he continued with the statement that even the slightest bit of stress can impact an infant's development. Likewise, we discussed numerous things that can impact the welfare of children, such as attachment, education, and poverty.
Neglected children are more likely to have medical problems than children who have been physically or sexually abusing. For instance, in young children and foster care, there is a case where the police raid on a crack house which the adults fled and abandoned two children. They were placed in an emergency children’s shelter, and two weeks later they identified them. After the pediatrician had read their medical records, they learn that both of the children have been exposing to cocaine, hepatitis B exposure, and congenital syphilis which was treated in the newborn nursery. Many teens in the system abuse substances to cope with their trauma especially alcohol and cannabis.
The tragedy case of the feral child Genie shows the critical value of childhood to both cognitive and social development of human. Although her language and social skills had improved a lot since she was rescued, Genie would never become a fully developed person due to the isolation and abuse she had suffered in her
The Children's Bureau publicized in their last pole that every year 754,000 children are abused or neglected by a parent. This consists of abuses such as physical, mental, and neglect. The Glass Castle, a memoir by Jeannette Walls, tells stories that Jeannette remembers as a normality. However, it truly opens the reader’s eyes to a new standard for parental neglect.
I never thought this would have happened. Why did my life have to turn this way? Those were the thoughts in my head when I found out my parents were going to get a divorce. Why did it have to happen to me? I was a cheerful, ten year old boy who never fretted about anything until that point in my life.
Studies show that nurture has a bigger impact than nature. A feral child is a kid who has lived away from human contact, and she/he has little experience of being taught stuff. Studies show that feral children are not as smart, and they are “babies” when they are found. A girl named Jeanie was found when she was 13. When they found her, she acted like a baby.
