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Per Reporter: Jalia's mom, Shondlan, and step-father, Johnny are on drugs. Shondlan and Johnny smoke marijuana in the home. Shondlan and Johnny take prescription pills (Xanax). Shondlan is always knockout from smoking marijuana and taking all those pills (Xanax). Shondlan and Johnny sell their prescription pills; but it is unknown if they sell drugs, in the home. Shondlan and Johnny drink alcohol in the home. It is unknown if Jalia has access to the drugs and the alcohol in the home. The home is roach infested. The roaches jump all in the bed. Shondlan has not hired a professional pest terminator or purchase any roach spray. Johnny was polished and pointing his gun; indirectly to Jalia. Johnny told Jalia that: "I (the reporter) am going
...bed or in another house. Randy came by and told him that Johnny killed Bob. The best literary element for this chapter is plot. The major plot in this chapter is when Randy told Ponyboy that Johnny killed Bob. “ Listen to me, Pony. You didn’t do anything. It was your friend Johnny that had the knife…” (Hinton 165)
She explains to the community that the current cycle that her father and the adults created is not going to work out forever. While under the current cycle, many outsiders snuck their way inside the community and stole money and food. Not only that, the watchers noticed that the thieves carried guns. She mentions to the crowd about her recurring nightmares where she is levitating and flies toward the door of her room.
Shame and guilt are often used interchangeably as they are often perceived to be the same or eerily similar. Yet shame is more associated with feelings of poor personal character and guilt is associated with what a person’s character does. Studies have shown that shame rather than guilt is a significant risk factor for the onset and maintenance of mental health difficulties and it has been further theorized that guilt is actually an adaptive response in which movement from shame to guilt represents a stage of mental health recovery (Dyer, et al., 2017). Though shame over particular events in the moment are not uncommon due to humanities imperfect nature, the problem resides in lack of shame resolution. May (2007) exemplifies this in that the
The bars on windows, bedstead nailed down, and a gate at the top of the stairs suggest an unsafe place. The narrator’s preference for living in the downstairs room is undermined by John’s control over her. Furthermore, John puts his wife into an environment with no communication, making her socially isolated. The protagonist is home alone most of the time while John is at work. She is not allowed to raise her own baby, and Jennie, John's sister, is occupied with her job.
Pacey said according to Andaija, Jaruarius behaves inappropriately towards her while they are playing hide and seek most times. Pacey also mentioned that Andaija seems to be afraid of Jaruarius as a result of his behavior towards her. It is unknown when the situation last occurred or if the child has been taken to the doctor to be examined for sexual abuse. Pacey said Andaija has threatened to commit suicide before one reason being because of the way Jaquarius has been treating her. Pacey said Andaija did not report having a plan as to how she was going to commit suicide, but she said the child was taken to Alliance Health Care a few weeks ago. According to Andaija, after she returned from Alliance Health Care Mrs. Jackson only gave her the medication she is supposed to take once after supper twice since she has been back. Pacey said she is not sure what type of medication the child is supposed to be taking or if she has been diagnosed with anything. However, Pacey said she believes the child has been back from Alliance Health Care since November 13 or 14. Pacey also said Andaija does not want to return to her foster parents
On 3-6-18, Malaijh came to the reporter's office because her head was hurting and she was crying. Malaijh was sent to the school nurse (Sharon). Malaijh's mother (Sherika) was called. The reporter was unable to reach the mother. Malaijh's brother (Demerion) comes to the Community Counselor (Turdy) every morning; before he goes to class. Demerion admitted to the Community Counselor at 8:30 am that: "On last night 3-5-18 he gave both of his sister (Malaijh and Rekara) one of his blue pill (unknown). He opened up the capsule and poured it into a glass of water and darn them to drink it." Rekara only took two slips. Malaijh had drunk all of it. Demerion was mad at Malaijh because she told him that, "She hates him. She wished he would die." Demerion
Imagine, a little boy sitting at home alone, hungry and scared because he doesn’t know where his parents are. Millions of children live this scenario every day because they have parents who abuse alcohol. Alcohol abuse is an addiction that affects everyone in the drinker’s life. Many examples of this are shown in The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls and her siblings are heavily impacted by their father’s drinking habit and are constantly forced to take care of themselves. Having a parent with a harmful history of alcohol abuse increases the risk of child maltreatment greatly, alcohol use disorder creates many problems especially when children are involved so government should step in and remove children from that environment.
As if Kristina’s troubling relationship with her father is not enough for her to deal with, she must also cope with the disconnectedness between her and her mother, who is too self-absorbed to bother with her daughter. Kristina recalls, “I’ve been alone since my mom met Scott. He sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly. No nurture, no nourishment left for Kristina” (Hopkins 13). This horrific confession makes it blatantly obvious why Kristina eventually turned to drugs to deal with the stress of her everyday life. Kristina feels neglected and unimportant not only in the eyes of her father, but her mother, too, which is a difficult realization at any age, but especially difficult as a teenage girl. When Kristina gets off her returning flight, Marie knows “she caught sight of something not quite right,” but she ignores her motherly intuition and the fact that Kristina is still high on meth (Hopkins 186).
In the United States alone, there are 28 million children of alcoholics - seven million of these children are under the age of eighteen. Every day, these children experience the horrors of living with an alcoholic parent. 40%-50% of children of alcoholics grow up and become alcoholics themselves. Others develop eating disorders or become workaholics. Children of alcoholics receive mixed messages, inconsistency, upredictability, betrayal, and sometimes physical and sexual abuse from their parents. They are made to grow up too fast because they must help keep the family structure together by doing housework and taking care of siblings since the alcoholic is not doing his or her part. Children form roles that they play to help disguise the disease. The roles help distract people from seeing the real problem and serve to protect the family so it can continue to function. There are five roles that the family members will take on-- the enabler, the hero, the scapegoat, the lost child, and the mascot.
Jody was born biologically with male genitals and he was brought up as a boy. Unlike his more gender-typical older brother, Jody’s childhood behavior was considered “sissy”. Jody genetically preferred the company of girls compared to boys during childhood. Jody considered herself a bisexual male until the age of 19. At 19 years of age, she became involved with a man, and her identity would be transgender, meaning that Jody was unhappy with her gender of birth and seeks a change from male to female. It would seem that there was some late-onset dissatisfaction, and late-onset is linked to attraction to women; in comparison to early childhood-onset, which are attracted to men. Jody identified herself as bisexual. The relationship with the man ended; nevertheless, Jody’s desire to become a woman consumed her, and Jody feels that’s he was born in the
From being secluded in the room for three months, heroine starts slowly to realize that her depression is caused by oppression of her husband. She recognizes that she gets "unreasonably angry with John sometimes" and later wishes he would get his own room (573).
...er alcoholic mother. Jess takes on the role of scapegoat when Alice deflects her “sick” behavior and yells at Jess to do her homework repeatedly while Alice stumbles around the house drunk.
Tabitha's father (Billy) is an angry and violence drunk. On 4-8-18, Billy grabbed Tabitha's arm, neck and pulled her out of the grandmother's (Shirley) chair. Tabitha has a slightly small red mark on her neck. Billy was upset with Tabitha for seating in Shirley's chair. Shirley had gone to bed. Before, pulling Tabitha out of Shirley's chair. Billy grabbed Tabitha's phone and Tabitha reached for it back. Billy then throws Tabitha's phone into the wall and broke it. Tabitha's mother (Jessica) witnessed the whole incident. According to Tabitha that, Jessica stated that: "She is on her own" (meaning she is not going to get involved). Billy was drunk when this occurred. Billy drinks alcohol in the home. It is unknown what types
Mom came bursting out of the door with what looks like a bag of sugar? She runs to the boat, and opens the gas plug and dumps the bag of sugar down into where the gas goes, I don't understand, why is she doing this? Dad was now furious, he raged over to Mom and knocked the sugar out of her hand and just as this happens we all turn are attention the red and blue lights flashing down the street. That’s who Mom must of called when she was outside on the phone. "What the hell did you do, Karey?" Dad screams. "You need help, you can't be doing drugs anywhere near my kid ever again" Mom mutters back to him.
Most people do not realize that alcohol is a drug that claims the lives of youth in college campuses across the world. In my case, it took the encounter with the ORL staff at UCLA for me to come to understanding that I am putting myself and those around me in danger through my risky drinking habits. With hours of self-reflection and the help of a cosmopolitan article called The Deadly Drinking Mistakes Smart Girls Make, I have found that there are several risks associated with alcohol that can put me at a quarrel with death. Even so, drinking does not always need to be deadly, and by keeping in mind the well-being of my fellow bruins and the skills mentioned in the article, I can find a balance between drinking for fun and drinking till death.