The stressor that I chose to discuss was violence. A friend of mine, who’s name I will not say, dealt with violence first hand on a daily basis. My friend dealt with violence first hand within her family. Although it was not her parents that committed violent acts upon her, it was an older sibling. Her older brother made things very difficult for her sending her to school with blackened eyes if a person on the streets were beating her up. She dealt with these beatings for years, until he was sent to a juvenile detention center for an unrelated crime at the age of 16. I can remember the relief that she had when he finally left. To this day, my friend is afraid of her brother but for some strange reason she loves him to death. She would actually “break her neck” to make him happy, I’m not sure if this is out of love or fear though. She suffers from severe paranoia, often thinking that those that care about her are plotting on her and planning to hurt her or talking bad about her when she is not around. I think that because of what happened to her in her childhood she is a very violent person. Often hitting her husband or throwing things when she doesn’t get what she wants. In her case I think that her biosocial and psychosocial development were both affected because she is unable to express herself to people and holds things inside until she explodes and violence is usually the end result. Through the love and understanding of her husband and the grace of God, she has come a very long way.
Think that violence and war has this same impact on the lives of children in Iraq as it did my friend and her situation of violence. Just today there was a large explosion in Iraq as US troops were pulled out. These children are really being placed in a horrible position. Although there is a war going on there, their are still mothers and children there that may no longer remember how to live a normal life. Being around violence directly on a daily basis would have a burden on any child. I am sure that these children are dealing with great fear and psychological issues that will affect them for the rest of their lives. These children are unable to live a regular childhood as others do, and do not have the privilege of attending school or playing with other children. Researching Iraq and the impact that war has had on the country it was interesting to find that one of the larger female death rates were for those children under the age of 15. Although it is no surprise that the death rates rise each year it was surprising to find that most individuals that were questioned about who was responsible for the death of their loved one was unable to give an exact answer to the question. Individuals there have already become tramuatized do to the situation that they are in. I was unable to find any information that proved that anything was being done to prevent stress towards children.
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