Family should be the most important factor in every person’s life. Within a family, mothers and fathers sometimes disagree with one another. Grandmothers and grandfathers disagree with each other as well. Sometimes uncles, cousins, and nieces never respond to each other. Sometimes, it is not easy to discuss anything without starting an argument.
Due to her domineering presence this meant that any chance that child A’s mother had of being able to fulfil her role as the primary carer was undermined and must have caused great stress and tension within the family unit. This is picked up on by the child who will often display negative behaviour just before a home visit in the hope that care staff will cancel it. This would remove the burden of saying she doesn’t want to go herself which she feels would be like rejecting her family. This finally leads me to the grandfather who would have been the only male to have been involved in child A’s development but he appears to have taken a very minor role and chose to stay in the background letting his domineering wife pull the family strings. This meant again that child A had no dominant male role model in her life and reinforced the grandmother’s matriarchal role.
The Struggles of Military Families We feel pride when somebody joins the United States Armed Forces. It feels good to know that there are ordinary citizen, who arm themselves with bravery and courage to embrace such an extraordinary journey to defend our nation; but nothing is free in this world, not even freedom. Military families struggle with stress and anxiety due to the hectic work schedules, relocation, and deployments. The changes on the work schedule and relocation requires that military families become more flexible to adapt to rapid changes. One of the most common changes is the sudden is that of the duty hours.
Thе later war placed severe strains оn thе National Guard because troop shortages required many Guard troops tо serve past their discharge dates. This practice, called stop loss, along wіth quick rotations thаt put units back into action after only а brief time at home, had а negative impact оn recruiting аnd retention rates. This has become а subject оf concern among military planners. Rapidly reacting to emergencies on a moments notice there is no skepticism that the National Guard does more than what it has been called on to do. It has responded to a multitude of events and conflicts.
Who would fardels bear, dagger and burdens?” (Armstrong). In other words, he means that who would want to put up with something that is emotionally difficult and why live a miserable life. We should all live life to the fullest. Set aside all issues and stress. Although, we know it is just as hard to not think about that as it is to get rid of it but it’s a known fact that we’re not promised another hour yet another day.
Our country is currently at war and has been in this particular war for seven years. This fact has affected every citizen in the United States, some more than others, but none more than the Military families. Like me, many spouses, family members, and friends of American soldiers anxiously await their loved ones return and the end of this war. Some people believe that war is a necessary occurrence that must take place every so often to maintain a balance among the world or in other words to help create peace. Many other people know that war cannot create peace because these two ideas are completely opposite.
There is no person who is immune to the effects of trauma. Trauma impacts on the individual, families, and societies by disrupting developments that are healthy, severely affecting relationships, and this contributes to mental health issues which includes domestic violence, substance abuse, and child abuse. The price is paid by everyone whenever a community creates multi-generations of individuals with untreated trauma by loss of wages, an increase in crime, and threat to the families’ stability. Becoming ‘trauma-informed’ basically means recognizing the fact that people normally have a lot of different kinds of trauma in their lives. Individuals who have been traumatized require support and understanding from the ones around them.
When a soldier is suffering from PTSD he may experience rage, depression, flashbacks, emotional numbness, and hyper vigilance. They can experience the inability to stop believing that they are in battle during everyday life. Effects like these can seriously jeopardize their family life. As one former soldier has said in the article, “It’s almost like your family has its own form of PTSD just from being around you every
Kevin Fields Professor Brownlie ENG 111 10/29/2012 Suffering within Stories To achieve great things there is often a great deal of expense required by the achiever but, when the beneficiary of the sacrifice is someone reaping the benefits of another’s pain the idea of what is right and wrong becomes warped. As depicted in Jackson`s The Lottery and Le Guin`s The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas the success of many is dependent on the struggle of ordinary people to survive, the suffering imposed on some people in order for many to do well and the savagery to which ordinary
Almost every day, scenes of injuries, deaths, destruction, isolation and uncertainty of the future confront them. These frustrations and tensions are then manifested in individual behavior which not only influence their mental peace but also causes emotional disturbance, thus adversely effecting their combat effectiveness. Stress affects everyone, irrespective of rank, age and seniority. 3. All human reactions are in response to stress of one type or other.