Theory of Abuse The theories that I believe best explains abuse within Precious’s
Theory of Abuse The theories that I believe best explains abuse within Precious’s
According to Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems view, Precious has a microsystem consisting of her tormenting and abusive parents, a broken school system, and a low income neighborhood riddled with drugs and crime (Oswalt, 2008). Precious’s exosystem consists of her mother’s anger towards her because she views the father as choosing Precious sexually over her which makes her bitter and insecure. This negatively affects Precious because it serves as fuel for her mother’s severe physical and emotional abuse such as being forced to over eat. The macro system that surrounds Precious is exhibited by unruly students, distractions, and poor resources in the classroom. Precious is overlooked and somehow reaches 9th grade but is completely illiterate.…
Precious’ abuse started as an infant when she was molested and raped by her father as her mother knowingly allowed this abuse to occur. These rapes continued until Precious was 16 years old. Precious’ home was full of domestic violence and she was verbally, physically, and emotionally abused. Not only is Precious abused by her mother but she is virtually treated as a slave as her mother is totally dependent on precious. Precious was the victim of incest, and impregnated twice by her father. Even in her community she is physically assaulted and made fun of, causing her to have low self-esteem. As if this abuse wasn’t enough, Precious ultimately contracts HIV from her infected father.…
On page 174, Rosie’s mother Lydia stated, “How dare you! You think he would do that to you? You think he would pick you, when you’re the ugliest? He can pick any of your sisters who are ways prettier than you! Huh? Fucking liar!” I was shocked by Lydia. How come can she say such words to a twelve years old girl? At that time, Rosie was just a little girl who needs to take care of carefully. Whereas, Lydia as her mother, did not take any responsibilities, and always abused her. Now, when her daughter was harassed, she never comforted Rosie, and even hurt Rosie by abusing her ugly. That was not a wise behavior for a mother. On page 157, Rosie stated, “Refusing defeat, I started to work for the first time, doing yard work, cleaning out garages,…
New York. From the moment she was born, she was sexually and physically abused by her father as her mother watched. Currently, she is pregnant with her second child, both children are a product of incest by her father. Precious’s first child has down syndrome and lives with Precious’ grandmother. Precious resides with her mother, Mary and is abused emotionally and physically by her on a daily basis and at night sexually abused by her father. Both Precious and her mother live on welfare thus to receive more support from the government Precious’s mother would lie to social services, stating that she is unable to find work as well as using both her daughter…
She is often taunted and bullied in the streets by thugs and then gets home to be treated as sub-human. But she has conditioned herself to be dehumanized. As much as she is determined to get out and move forward, her mother is equally determined to keep her down. After all, if she allows Precious to leave, her welfare checks will stop. She is not interested in moving from the front of the television set. As far as Mary’s concerned, Precious is not human and she definitely does not see her as her daughter. She’s only good for the role of her domestic. Precious expects to hear insults slurred at her, she expects to have trash hurled at her or dumped on her by her mother, Mary and the rest of the world. She accepts it all with numbness and nonchalance. The film adopts the personality of the protagonist who narrates the story and allows us to glimpse into her coping mechanism of wishful escape fantasies. Deep at the heart of “Precious” lies a truly poignant and inspirational story, which is no doubt, handled with great care and sincerity. “Precious” could easily be overstated, sentimental or rife with clichés, but rather it is loaded with surprises that invoke gasps of horror at times and tears of joy at other times. She is ashamed, humiliated and disgusted at herself but she escapes into her fantasy dream world where we hear voiceovers and flashing lights as everyone clamors for a glimpse of her on the red carpet, where her gorgeous Romeo awaits her with open…
Terri’s relationships are abusive. While it's clear that Terri and Ed’s relationship is abusive, a little less clear is the abuse of Terri and Mel’s relationship. Ed abused Terri physically, but Mel abused her verbally. Terri seems willing to take any form of abuse without limits. This, however, would just encourage the abusers to abuse her more. it is an endlessly deteriorating cycle. Terri's methods of dealing with abuse seem bad at best.…
The article “Recognizing and Treating Victim and Aggressor,” by Robin Kowalski, published by Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, talks about how to recognize cyberbullying is taking place. Cyberbullying is very prevalent in today’s society and can affect many children.…
Maybe I never find no love, nobody. At least when I look at the girls I see them and when they look they see ME, not what I looks like. But it seems like boyz just see what you looks like. (Sapphire, 1996, pg. 95). We see Precious begin to question gender, sexuality, her worth. All of which were wrongly defined to her at a young age. We see her begin her journey and push through all her struggles in order to feel alive and connected to herself by herself. She beings to use characters introduced to her through literature to work through the situations she has been put through in her life. It is here that we see education shape her perception and we see her tap into her inner power and…
She used mostly concrete, observable characteristics. The textbook indicates that children do not talk about self worth until age 8, but that their behavior may indicate self-esteem. I feel that Suzy has developed self-esteem and demonstrates self-esteem related issues already with regards to her peer group. A young child's self concept extends to what makes her happy or sad. Social psychologists such as Jean Piaget believe that a child’s concept of self evolves as he gets older. The ability to reason and understand morals, or to differentiate right from wrong, grows as he understands more fully that he is a separate individual from his parents and the rest of the world. Parents can aid in their children's moral development by engaging in age-appropriate activities with their children and basing moral teachings on their children's ability to understand. Preoperational children often have relatively high self-esteem because early self-concepts are based on easily defined and observed variables, and because many young children are given lots of encouragement. Young children are also generally optimistic that they have the ability to learn a new skill, succeed, and finish a task if they keep trying. Self-esteem comes from several sources, such as school ability, athletic ability, friendships, relationships with caregivers, and other helping and playing…
I have been asked to write a report describing the four theoretical models of child abuse to include: Medical, Psychological, Sociological and Feminist approaches which I will start off by describing each. Next I will compare and contrast the different theoretical models of abuse then conclude by evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the four.…
In Fifty Shades of Grey, a virulent, sexy man heavily involved in the BDSM lifestyle invites a young, inexperienced woman into a submissive relationship; except, he falls in love with her shattering the boundaries of their contractual relationship. While that may sound all “happily ever after,” Mr. Grey employs emotional manipulation, physical manipulation and abuse, and psychological manipulation to gain what he wants—Anastasia; meanwhile, Anastasia reacts out of her immaturity and naiveté using a sexual relationship to get what she wants—Mr. Grey. Neither enters into a formal BDSM contract with healthy, educated, interest in the lifestyle nor do they enter into a relationship with healthy conflict resolution. Instead, they model intimate…
An abuser is a physical and emotional action in which an individual does to someone else. The individual that suffers from the abuse is called the abused, there is different patterns and characteristics were you can find out which individual is the abuser or the abused. Concentrating on different responses from the individual, physical actions, and monitoring the individual environment can help determine which on demonstrates the patterns and characteristics of an abuser or abused.…
There are no signs of physical abuse from his parents. His parents’ parenting style is permissive and show little or no signs of control of his behavior. Mary and Joseph have been nurturing to John because of his witness of his grandparent’s accident. Mary stated in the first few visits they use the time out method for John and it rarely works because John becomes argumentative. According to Broderick (2015), permissive parents exercise less behavior control by putting few maturity demands on their children especially when they display anger and aggressive behavior.…
When I was around the age of 5 to 7, my mother left my father and I never got to see her. My mother didn't want anything to do with me. My mother never called. Never tried to come see me. The one time I actually went with her, her and her brother hit me so hard it messed up my hip. When my father went to pick me up from her, he noticed I was limping and took me to the hospital.…
After looking carefully through the Columbia College library data base, I found a source that interested me. The source is called “Prisoners of childhood? Child Abuse and the Development of Heroes and Monsters in Ender’s Game” by Gross, Melissa. The subject of this source is about child abuse in literature and psychology in literature. Gross is a valid source because she has a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Gross has over twenty references that are used in her article. The article appears to be well-written and objective.…