Consequences of stress on Children's Development

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

   

I want to share an experience I had with a frien that suffered domestic violence for her husband for many years and his 7 year old son was who suffered in their development.


   Living in a home where mother abuse is ocurring, and for the children grow in an environment with violence and fear, has many implications for cognitive ,phychological,emotional, social  and behavioural development:

• He had a delayed language development he need to have a language terapist to speak well.
• In the school he has difficult to learn and concentrate,so he had a poor academic performance.
• He has anxious, and fearful and he do poop in her pants.
• He became to be angry with his dad, and his peers.
• He had low self-esteem.

All of this factors affects the children, his view of the world and of themselves, their ideas about the life his expectations about his future and their moral development. So this children had to have a psychological therapy and know he is better ,but  they still being worked on this case with the help of his family and the psychologist ,because the damage in the emotinal part of this children was affected."Children whose earlier experiences were stressful and who lacked nurturing caregivers may have impairments of their limbic systems."(Berber,2009).


HUNGER IN AFRICA

More than 30 million children and adults across a swath of Africa face a devastating hunger crisis. Poor rainfall, crop failures and skyrocketing food prices and insecurity from Niger in the West to Kenya in the East have made it hard for parents to provide nutritious food for their children. Every day that young children go without eating the right nutritious foods puts them behind in their growth and development. What’s worse, it can weaken their immunity, making them vulnerable to killer diseases like diarrhea, malaria and pneumonia. We must stop hunger in Africa before it worsens, to help children survive and thrive.
In south Africa the undernutrition array of health problems in children, sometimes become chronic,extreme weight loss,weaken-ed resistence to infection,iron deficiency,vitamin A deficiency,zinc deficiency, and in the worts cases,early death.( the death rate from diseases such as lower respiratory infection,malaria,and measles.
Inadequate nutrition can also disrupt cognition,although in diferent ways.
Children with a history of malnutrition attained lower scores.
In Kenya and Malawi has found that some female-headed house holds with very low incomes have lower levels of preschool  malnutrition.
http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c