Risk Factors In Jorja Leap's 'Jumped In'

Risk factors are centered around parents and caregivers, who is a child’s first form off insight on how relationships and ultimately how the world and its inhabitants function. In many cases, if the caregiver is not emotionally or financially stable, which puts a child at a much higher risk to experience some form of abuse. This concept is prevalent throughout Jorja Leap’s book “Jumped in.” Many of the people who joined the gang life resorted to the hood because their parents were either incarcerated, too drugged out, or dead. This is a form of abuse and this emotional trauma leads the children to turn to find another form of family, which is the “hood.” Community violence is usually a negative result that comes from some form of child abuse at a very early age. As the CDC states “concentrated neighborhood disadvantage (e.g., high poverty and residential instability, high unemployment rates, and high density of alcohol outlets), and poor social connections” are a high risk factor for child to experience abuse. In “Jumped in” one of the characters, Johann speaks about how she felt abandoned by her own mother. She explains how her mother was “no damn good. She left [her] so many times. She never there when [she] need[ed] her… and she makes [her] feel like shit” (JI-Leap). Furthermore, another character explained how his “mother [was] gone and [his] father [he] never knew, [he] knows this, [he] knows [his] neighborhood” (JI-Leap). In addition another high risk factor is unwanted pregnancy by teenagers who themselves are still in the process of development.

Teenage Pregnancies

Teenage parents are more likely to be impoverished and mentally unstable compared to other individuals who postpone having children. Compared to adult mothers...

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...began to fall roughly 18 years after abortion legalization,” and that the social benefit of this decrease in crime is about $30 billion annually (F-Levitt & Dubner). The crime reduction rate from the legalization of abortion occurred because of the abortions was mostly done by impoverished mothers and teenage parents. Due to the reason that the unborn children were at a high risk of being neglected, abused, and inadequate caregiving shows a high correlation that abused children are more likely than others to live a life of crime.

Statistics Provided by the National Child Abuse Statistic of America

Many parents' have a lack of understanding of children's needs, child development and parenting skills. Child abuse is short and long term deferential to a society and the victim itself. Child abuse is short and long term deferential to a society and the victim itself.