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Abstract
Parental Involvement deals with being fully committed and fully active in a childs life.
There are many problems concerning parents staying in a childs life. Some children grow up
differently than others. Some children grow up to be depressed, sad, mentally ill, or destroyed
blaming themselves when they grow up. Other children might grow up strong, and be able to
deal with only having one parent in their life. It might encourage and uplift them in doing
something for the both of the child and his/her parent. Lack of parental involvement can affect
children in school abundantly. They tend to have less focus, do bad in school, or even be bad at
school. Not having the parental guidance you need, some children tend to decline as they get
older. Sometimes dealing with school, teachers might see it as their parent neglecting them
because of lack of participation, but the thing is they just might not have the time, or resources to
know how to help out.
Introduction
There are many problems concerning parental involvement, which is the lack of parental
involvement. Parental Involvement has an abundant impact on a childs life and behavior. Having
lack of parental involvement in a childs life can create many struggles. Having one or no parents
in your life can hurt you emotionally, physically, and mentally. Children with uninvolved parents
often turn out depressed, mentally ill, or often feel neglected. Parents being neglected
themselves, tend to carry on the neglecting tendencies towards their child in the future. Negligent
parents, meaning, failing to take proper care in doing something, plays a big role in a child's
life. For negligent parents, it implies that someone has given up on caring. In some cases, parents
Negligent parents
Negligent parents have a large impact on a childs development. Not having a parent in
your life can be a very hard thing to deal with. Sometimes no matter at what age, it can still
affect you later in life. Without parental guidance, a child is more likely to experience withdraws
and depression throughout their life. Most cases dealing with negligent parents, children tend to
end up having mental effects in the long run. They become depressed because they don't have the
father or mother figure they want and need in their life. It can affect them in many ways, like in
school. It can mess up their focus, making them do bad in school, and can even turn them into a
bad kid. Most times when children see other kids their age with both parents they tend to feel
some type of way. For example, if they had a school performance and both of the childrens
parents were there, the kid with no parents or only one will feel sad, and might even mess them
up in their performance. Having one parent, especially only a mother figure may go a good way
or a bad way later in life. It can go a bad way because later in life if being a boy, not growing up
with a father figure they might end up doing the same thing to their kid. They might treat their
kid like this in the future because they didn't grow up with with a father figure themselves, being
emotionally destroyed, or becoming a careless person. It can go on a good route, being a son,
because they can end up being a mommys boy, and have the mindset that since their father
Being Neglected
Neglect occurs when a parent or other primary caretaker chooses not to fulfill their obligations
to care for people for, or adequately supervise and monitor the activities of their child.( mental
dissorders) Thus, you can be neglected by not being feed, having a place to live, clothing, or
even dental or medical care. Many people who neglect their kids, were neglected themselves.
Not having one or both parents can carry on to the kids later in life. Some might really see it as
they want to be there for their children because there parent or parents couldn't be there for them
and give them a life they never had. This type of behavior was and can passed or inherited
through generations. From interviewing a friend, Jade Hewitt, she feels that since both parents
contributed into making the baby, they both need to contribute into having the baby. Both parents
need to agree, and be ready if it happens so they don't have to have any problems when it
happens. What needs to be done about this is that no matter the consequences or anything both
parents need to stay in their life. It took two too do the job, so it needs to be two when raising the
child. Fathers don't see that they play a very large role in a childs life, a father figure is always
needed, and we have too many fathers in this world who leave because they don't want any
3. Why do parents or a single parent not stick around with their kids knowing how they
might feel when they grow up?
She believes they probably didn't have enough money, they didn't want it, the father may wanted
her to have an abortian and she didn't agree, or they knew they couldn't take care of one, or their
family wasn't having it.Financial stability
4. Do you feel that kids turn out better or worse not growing up with one parent both?
She feels its a very hard question, become some people are different. She doesn't talked to her
dad, and feels like her uncle is her father. She feels that they turn out worse because they don't
have anybody to guide them, and might struggle with emotional issues, they might be insecure
about their place, because they feel like it was their fault why their mother or father figure .
1. What is the difference from a child having one parent, rather than having both?
She believes difference is that they wont get the support they really need in life, and might not grow up
the same as one with both parents. Having one parent you, they could only do so much, and be there as
much as they can, but the child will always be missing a piece in their life.
2. Children growing up without parents tend to be depressed, grow up differently than others, and
have a different perspective view of things. Why is that?
She says that this is because they are not complete, they don't have that mother or father figure
perspective in their life. Their whole life is not complete, because their missing something. She grew up
without her father in her life, and in the beginning was sad about it but came to a realization that at the
end of the day, she knows it wasn't her fault. She is happy with her mom in her life, and does a good job
at what she is doing.
3. Why do parents or a single parent not stick around with their kids knowing how they might feel
when they grow up?
They might do this because they might not be financially stable. They might not have even agreed that
they both wanted it, or just wasn't ready.
4. Do you feel that kids turn out better or worse not growing up with one parent both?
She says that everybody is different, because she grew up fine with one parent in her life. But everybody
is not the same, and she believes kids turn out worse. She had a friend that was depressed because she
didn't have that father figure she wanted in her life, and always blamed herself for her father leaving her
and her mom. She was emotionally destroyed, she did overcome it. She believes she is one of the
strongest people she knows because of that.