As a child, she is a kind and supportive friend despite the abusive situation that she lives in with her father. As Jenny and Forrest part ways to attend college, Jenny develops a rebellious attitude and begins hanging out with the “bad” boys and starts getting into trouble. It is clear that Jenny has developed a terrible self-image and is struggling with her true identity. Some of the motivating factors of Jennys rebelliousness include the lack of understanding her own identity, her
They will keep bugging their friend, until they finally agree to do it. It is like blackmailing someone or bargaining, young people feel now days that if they do not do it than they are a lame. But in my case this is not true, a real friend want pressure their close one to do something that there are not comfortable of doing. Another reason why young people use drugs is because of abusive parents, which occurs in many young people household. Young people can get abusive emotionally and sexually.
Brain development in infants is positively affected when parents work to understand and meet their basic needs for love and affection and provide comfort when they are hungry, bored, tired, wet or cold. Negative experiences with parents of abuse, neglect and exploitation can overwhelm children. For example in the video Genie the wild child, Genie was raised in social isolation from an infant to 13 years of age. If she made a single noise, her father would abuse her. Abusive parents who use hitting, neglecting basic needs, and other action that lower an individual’s sense of self-worth, have a negative impact on the health of a child.
Donny is a teenager who is going through a rough time in his life. When his mother, Daisy, receives a call from Donny’s school, telling her that her son is “noisy, lazy, and disruptive [,] always fooling around with his friends, and [not] responding in class, Daisy becomes very concerned about her eldest. As many parents would, Daisy begins to question her ability to raise her son. As she sat on the principal’s couch, she began to see herself as a “failure” and a “delinquent parent.” Although she was a grade four teacher, she never saw either her husband (an insurance salesman) or herself as having achieved anything of significance. Her son’s failings became her own failings.
Depression is a mental disorder that affects an individuals’ mood and behavior. Depression is mostly common in the teenage society; it causes teens to feel unhappy and hopeless. Depression affects all areas of teen’s lives including home, school performance, and social life. Many teens are quietly suffering from depression due to relationship problems, peer pressure, and self-esteem issues. Relationships in teen lives could have a positive or negative outcome due to the fact that, teens based their whole lives around their relationships.
They know what they want and when they don’t get it, they cry, or scream, or express their emotions in another way. Divorce is a difficult and unpleasant event in life of any person, and children become its victims as well. Of course, they don’t want to lose the possibility of seeing another parent less frequently than another, and thus they express their disappointment in a way usual for them. People start to think that children shouldn’t suffer because of it, and maybe they should try to restore the relationships and so on. But, unfortunately, such tries often end with nothing good and children suffer even more.
WRT 108 Minutes of Glory / Night Women Wanjuri finds herself trapped in an urban setting and is a victim of her situation and low esteem. “Minutes of Glory” is an emotional and touching story of this young woman who is battling with an identity problem and is seeking acceptance in a post-independence setting where men of the New Africa elite exploit women. On the other hand “Night Women” is about a single mother who is struggling to take care of her son. In order to provide for him, she takes on a job as a prostitute working during the night. Wanjuri, the main character in “Minutes of Glory”, is a victim of daily circumstances and low self-image, who is in search of self and approval.
Many of bad behaviors of teenagers or social problems are caused by children who growing up in single parent families. The most significant impact of divorce on children is the conflict between parents. Both parents play important roles in children's life. Children do not want to see the quarrel and fighting between their parents. The divorce's hurts to both mother and father make children heartbreak.
Social networks are a silent addiction! Teenagers are losing themselves online, suffering from self-disclosure communication, mental health and depression. Continuously checking on Twitter, Facebook or other social networks updates, it triggers the addiction parts of their brains, and as a result this could damage other valuable activities such as focus on schoolwork, studying or participating in sports (Raise Smart Kid).Firstly, addiction is one of the reasons why teenagers have negatively changed their behavior, as they are full of stress, becoming angry easier, feeling depressed and most importantly destroying their relationships with their friends and families. Electronic interactions via Facebook, twitter and emails, have damaged real
The positive and negative aspects of sibling rivalry is hard to determine, but according to Joanna Briscoe there seem to be a slightly negative effect of having a sibling. She has experienced to have a little brother herself when she grew up, but since his birth she got full of rage and jealousy, because of this new baby stealing all of the attention. As she mentions “he was literally the blue eyed boy[…] the prince to the civillian”. Psychotherapist Phillip Hodson says “Siblings fight because one has displaced another”. Meaning that on the positive side, there will be pressure among them to succeed in order to get some attention which leads to some that might aspire to higher things.