I was the first born and was the only child till I was six, but during those six years I witness my mother getting hit by my father and him being drunk every day and never home. I was scared and didn’t know if this was okay and normal for my parents but what I did know is whenever it happened I was hiding and covering my ears. My dad would go on drinking binges for days with his cousins and would never be home, my mom would worry and leave me to go find him, usually he was at a bar or at his cousins house and she would bring him home. That’s when things would get throw, slaps would be heard, cries as well, and another beer opening. It got worse and not only was he hitting my mom but now me as well.
While this is a good philosophy I took it to another level, stopped planning for my future, and got into drugs other bad behavior. Then a little over a year ago I got into a really bad wreck, broke two ribs and should have been hurt much worse. This started a change in my thinking, and then last January I got arrested and faced serious trouble. My family did me the greatest thing ever for me and refused to bail me out. After sitting in jail for over a month, my wife still standing beside me something finally changed.
To answer this question, we must first understand why children as young as 12 have no home to go to OR why they choose life on the street as a better alternative to living at home. Let me introduce you to Dale, his story is typical of street kids. At the age of 13, Dale was homeless. His mother was a crack addict and her boyfriend was a violent user who brutalised Dale and his mother regularly. Dale had spent time in intensive care after one of his step father’s vicious beatings.
A major moment that changed the course of your life forever. I choose to write about “A major moment that changed the course of your life forever”. Years ago, when I was growing up, I lived a difficult life as a child. Growing up in a home with an alcoholic parent was the biggest and toughest test in my life. I recall being 5 years old when I was sleeping with my older brother and my father came home drunk and out of his mind, arguing and fighting with my mother.
When Ji-Li Jiang was 12, kids attacked her with retorts, her family were humiliated, and finds out she was born in a landlord family. Because of the detention of her father, Ji-Li Jiang had to make the most dreadful decision in her life; break with her family, follow Chairman Mao or follow her landlord parents and have a bad future. Read the book to find more. Afterwards, Ji-li-Jiang graduated from Shanghai University and from Shanghai Teacher's College (this happened when the Cultural Revolution was finished and Chairman Mao was already dead) and became a science teacher. She came to the United States in 1984 and graduated again from the University of Hawaii.
I foolishly believed him and ripped up the divorce papers. A year later, he got me hooked on crack, a secret he hid from me over the past year. Over the next two years, after we had paid our bills and bought what we needed for the house and the boys, we would spend the rest of our money on drugs. I knew in my heart that I was not being a good mom, but I could not walk away. It was not until my boys and I were living in a shelter and my now ex husband living in a car that I started to think that I was not on a right path in my life.
She participated in an act of violence with her boyfriend and did not talk to the police so they gave her ten years and he talked and received three years. Stephanie “The woman’s daughter, the conspirator, is chasing her son through the maze of chairs and tables and through other children,” (Coyne 92). Once again this goes back to the little boy’s behavior, attitude, and lack of respect for his mother. The other children sitting down talking to their parents and he’s running making his mother chase him around. While Stephanie is under incarceration Ellie is staying with his grandmother.
Celie's mother dies soon after and now Fonso rapes Celie more and more often, saying "You gonna do what your mammy wouldn't" (p. 1). Celie has two children by her father, both of which he takes away right after they are born. Celie assumes that he has taken the children into the woods and
She loves the boy who was four years ago and not the man who is now standing in front of her. His son tricked a girl into getting into his car where he raped her and now he is back to spill salt in her kitchen as he did after he ate his breakfast. Because she doesn’t want to look into his face, she pretends that she is sick then she goes to her room. There are many unanswered question in Myrna’s mind, and she couldn’t stay at her home anymore and be her mother so she leave with a note for Kenny that it means he should go away within a week. In my point of view Myrna made a good decision in this situation for two reasons, first it is a good punishment for Kenny as she dose’s want to be her mother any more.
When you've lived in town controlled by gangs the words "Tomorrow isn't promised today" are taken serious. I was born and raised in Camden, AR in a single parent home and was exposed to gangs in very young age. While I was a kid I was taught how drop when you heard gunshots. The gangs here are always fighting wherever they go and taking risk of getting killed most of the time. Just not only gang member that can die during a gang fights but there be people that aren’t in gangs die too.