Family Trouble

When children come from struggling families, it makes it harder for them to deal with a crisis more appropriately than most other children their age. Two factors interfere with family function in every structure, ethnic group, and nation. Low in come and high conflict (Berger, 2011). I have dealt with children from good families and struggling families. Most of the time it was children that came from struggling families that would act up or get more emotional in situations. A little boy that I use to watch at daycare would throw things at his teachers when he was upset. When this got him attention, even if it was negative attention, he would start throwing things even when he wasn't upset. His family was a very low income family with a single mom of three boys to all different dads. The little boy wasn't getting enough attention due to the fact that his mother had her hands tied up in other things. Another time was when a little girl would always try to boss other kids around but would be extremely emotional if someone said one off color thing to her. She was another child from a broken family where her mom and step dad would fight a lot. She was also very poor and her mother had to work three jobs to support her. When I read the section Family Trouble I could instantly tie it in to the experiences I had with multiple children with struggling families.

Citations:

Berger, Kathleen. (2011). The Developing Person Through the Life Span. New York, NY : Worth Publishers.