ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
Topic: family

A case in Russia shows that even kids that have a parent around can become feral without the right affection and brain development. Russian police in chemical protection suits have rescued a five-year-old with no language or social skills, considering her disabled. She was living in an apartment filled with cockroaches and trash. The little girl made a den of rotting garbage that filled the apartment with noxious chemicals. The half-naked child named Lyubov was dehydrated, and anorexic after her mother Irina Garashchenko left their home in Moscow for days. The girl was found wearing a necklace that had been around her neck for so long it started fusing to her skin. There are reports that she did not know how to speak and could only make sounds. When investigators gave her water, she drank 2 liters within a short span of time, she had severe signs of anorexia. When the neighbors alerted the police about the condition they said, ‘they almost fainted at the condition of the apartment and from the horrid smell.’ Police had to wear protection when they went in and found the girl in a shirt and a hat, no underwear, sitting on a windowsill. She was crying and there was no food in the kitchen. The condition of the apartment was so bad police had to wear hazmat suits and were met with mountains of garbage bags. After the police rescued the girl, the mother returned and tried to flee from authorities. Her husband was later deported, and she was taken into police custody on suspicion of ‘attempted murder’. The neighbors claim they’ve seen her in professional attire but was curious about why her apartment smelled so bad. Just because a kid lives in a household and has parents doesn’t always mean everything is okay behind closed doors.
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It’s very hard for these kids to re-assimilate into society after being alone for so long. Their genetic makeup gets in their way of ever being “normal” again. Their behavior, speech or lack thereof, and social manners have all been reverted. On the other hand, some children are able to develop normally despite these traumatic experiences, it all depends on how they dealt and lived through the situation. Children can adapt more easily to the different stressors and “bounce back” more easily when they’re out of that situation and sometimes Children can reverse in human development after being abandon. Social support and social interaction are one of the most important factors in predicting the physical health and wellbeing of everyone, not just children. Isolation and no human contact can be detrimental to a human’s mindset, so when these kids go missing for years, they develop a disability of having no social skills. Unfortunately, these things happen every day around the world. This occurrence of a child becoming feral are because of the death of the parents, war, civil disturbance, or domestic violence. Children who live in these conditions often adapt to the lifestyle of whatever animal raises them. They eat, walk and communicate in ways of their animal companions. If it is early enough in the child’s life, they have little to no knowledge of how human life works, so they take the personality of the animal completely. Physical bodies can even more like the animal they call “family”. When and if an infant is exposed to multiple or prolonged stressful situations the stress can malfunction. Either shut down or becomes hypersensitive. Isolation is the worst and by far the most effective on the human brain. Their functional stress responses evolved because they helped our ancestors escape or avoid danger, forcing them to turn back to their primitive ways. If the child’s mind is a little more developed, the way they react to danger depends on their “fight, flight or freeze” responses, which varies with each human.
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Not only does their phycological makeup change, but their physical selves change as well. When being left feral, kids muscles start to develop early, you’ll find callouses on their palms. Their hair growth is almost impressive, having to live in the cold at night causes their body to grow hair thicker and more frequent than in normal children would. They start walking on all fours instead of gradually walking on two feet like a normal kid and their overall mannerisms are of an animal. When returning into society, there’s been frequent cases of death only a couple of years after being found in the jungle. In 1972, a boy was discovered in the woods playing with baby foxes, he later died in 1985 only living 13 years after being found. There are many more stories about them dying after being discovered. The reason for this is simple. You can’t just take someone off their diet after being on it for years. You can’t just bring essentially a wild animal back into civilization, feed it like normal, treat it like normal and expect everything to be fine. Their body has been changing so much to adapt to the environment that they physically can’t change their diet and living habits within days or weeks. Drastic diet change can cause brain fog, electrolyte imbalance and fatigue. People think they’re helping by feeding the kid heart-healthy meals, but these kids haven’t seen that much food in years. Their stomach would not be able to handle it. Either that or they were already in their way to death because of any injuries the body sustained while in the wild.
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There are some cases where a child is raised this way, like animals. Or how parents would like to call the “Free Range”. Maybe calling it this is a way for them to make themselves feel better about the way they’re raising their kids, but some consider this way of parenting inhuman and ridiculous. Free Range parenting is a form of parenting that lets the kids raise themselves. On the contrary, children living in an isolated environment, these kids grow up with their parents around and sometimes even brothers and sisters in a nice house with food readily available for them. Free range children don’t grow up with any normal rules other kids do. They’re essentially raised as feral children, but they have human contact. This could vary between families on how “free” their free-range kids are but for the most part, they’re raised unsupervised and the parents let them do whatever they want. These kids are often raised without going to school and some don’t even attend any sort of alternative school or homeschooling them. Isolating them to the only people around them. Mom and dad in England raise their 7 children as free range. They don’t go to school, they dress, eat, and live how they want. Mom claims she doesn’t want them to “grow up too fast” and as counterintuitive as that sounds, they truly believe this will help them keep their kids as young as possible. They’re allowed to cuss, get tattoos and piercing and are also involved in “adult activates”. Since this s almost considered child neglect on some levels, it’s a very controversial topic that needs to be addressed by lawmakers so there are no mistakes in child neglect cases. It would be easy for a parent abusing their kid to say, “Oh well, I raise them as free range”. There are no set rules or requirement to this. Utah will become the first state to essentially protect “free range” children.
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Other than Tarzan and The Jungle Book, there are other books with some sort of representation of feral humans in them. A more complex example of a representation of a feral ‘human’ is Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. It shows a more phycological way of being ‘feral’. The monster that Victor Frankenstein creates was at first just an experiment. The upbringing of his curiosity will come to be his, unfortunately. He was very gifted and knowledgeable. Frankenstein sacrifices the comfort of the realm of known knowledge in his pursuit of creating life. Victor was called a “Modern Prometheus” named after the Titan Prometheus from Greek mythology who supposedly created mankind using clay. Dr. Frankenstein narrates the story of how he created this monster from a dead body he constructed and put back together. In fear of someone trying to re-create his crazy experiment, he leaves out the details of the experiment. After playing God with a lifeless body, he touched one of the legs of the monster with a scalpel causing a current to flow through the leg, making it move like it was alive. This process would later be called ‘galvanism; After he created this creature he was scared off. Society eventually causes the creature to become a monster and because of his physical appearance, he’s rejected by everyone. Excluded and misjudged. The people of Victors town shun him for they are terrified and repulsed. Like other feral children cases, the monster was abandoned for uncontrollable reasons. Just like the kids getting left because of civil unrest or ineligible parents, the creature is abandoned. Not only was the monster left alone, feral, but Victor Frankenstein the alchemist/scientist was also alone. Not considered feral because he did have some common sense, he’s older, he’s able to defend himself. Victor had a tendency to become ill whenever he felt guilty or had some sort of responsibility, he had to take care of. Almost imminently after creating the monster and realizing he’s just done something horrible; he runs away in fear and doesn’t take responsibility.
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He returns to his apartment after seeing Clerval and after seeing the monster was gone, he became joyful and starts laughing. That disturbs his friend and leads him into thinking that Victor was becoming sick. His hysteria about the creature leads to an illness that will eventually eat him up for months. Later, the monster takes the life of Victor’s dear friend, Clerval. This would put Victor back into illness and sees himself as guilty for the death of his friend. Victor would be completely alone for the rest of the story. Illness eventually takes over Victor’s life. Just like kids that have been abandoned, they get consumed by overwhelming loneliness. Slowly, they separate themselves from society and become very introverted.
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However, this time his sickness was different from the other times because Victor does not recover but dies instead. For him, death was the escape, allowing him to finally stop batting his misery. In his previous cases of sickness, he intended to rejoin society after escaping for a while; however, with no friends or family left, he would later die on Walton’s boat. Phycological loneliness can lead a human to go insane because of the feeling of being trapped in your mind. Most people will never feel the feeling of true loneliness but that’s for the better. These younger children that go through these traumatic experiences will always have some sort of injury to their mentality. Research shows that struggle with loneliness are more likely to fall victim to attention and learning issues more than their peers. They may also have a difficult time dealing with feelings that come with loneliness, like depression and anxiety. Social Disability is a disorder they can lead to the inability to progress socially and emotionally, the impact of this disorder degrades the persons quality of life. There are instances where a kid will separate themselves from the whole family even if they have good parents and a good home. This is often an effect of depression or if the kid is an introvert. Children don’t have to be living in the woods to be considered feral.
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Extreme child neglect can also interfere with normal development in a child’s life. There have been instances where some kids act Ferrell or while but have in human interaction some kids develop these animal-like tendencies from birth. This condition might be referred to as asked burgers syndrome it is a group of neurological disorders known as autism spectrum disorders. It is one of the mildest autisms there are on the spectrum. Symptoms may include difficulty with social interaction and engaging in repetitive behavior. This disorder is known as a high functioning autism which means these individuals do not have a delayed language acquisition and cognitive development is typical of many. Asperger’s syndrome also known as (AS) cannot be cured. But early diagnosis an intervention can help the child make social connections and achieve their potential this will also lead to a more productive life style. Often times, these kids will act like animals in their early years, like cats’ dogs or horses.
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In conclusion, feral children are more a real-world problem rather than an entertaining movie or book. It’s possible that people produce these movies, shows, and books to spread light on the topic which most authors and directors try to do, just so people can realize there’s always someone living in worst conditions and there’s always something to be thankful for. Feral children used to be such a foreign topic to talk about but after this research it’s obvious that some things need to be talked about more to bring awareness to these situations, just because someone made a movie about this kid doesn’t mean its fake. Hundreds of cases of children came up while researching this topic, but only a handful stood out. Marina is the best example of having a positive attitude towards life and her book is a great way to learn about these cases first hand . She describes in detail what she went through, how it happen, how she was found and how she was rehabilitated. John was shooed off by civil disruption and eventually had a roller coaster of events that happened after wards. The notorious wolf boy made headlines when he was found in the jungle and taken in and taken care of. These stories are very inspirational and their one of a kind. Weather they died years later or because a mom to a beautiful family, they stayed strong enough to survive in the wild with no love, no comfort, no human interaction and no food or security. There have been no updates on the case of the Russian girl but luckily, she’s alive and out of the hands of her abusers. Likewise, free range children grow up in a particular living situation that would consider them wild just because they have no education history or any rules to live by. They’re wild in societies terms . They’re isolated to the people around them and know nothing other than them. This is another instance of being half way feral and half way raised normally. With no rules or regulations in the house they are free to do as they please, like children in the wild. Other than being feral or free range, there’s a lot of ways a person can become, in a sense, disabled because of their social skill. Which is one of the main factors of being a feral child besides living in the wild. Feral children are real and they are out there.
Topic: family

Genesis 12:1 says “Get out from your county and your father’s house, in a land that I will show you”. In the Seer series by Rachelle Dekker, It shows how a person passes through a lot of alternating rise and fall with their family. There are manifold examples of the theme of family throughout the Seer Series as demonstrated in the action of the central characters of Carrington, Selena Carson and Kennedy Brant. Carrington Hale was about to be taken from her family.
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Since Carrington is about to be taken from her family, she felt anxiety. It was the day to be chosen or to go to the authority. Unfortunately, Carrington did not qualify to be chosen. “Carrington yaned her hand away and watched her brother erupt into wails of confusion. Raging sadness threatened her balance, but she managed to remain steady as she followed the guard away from her family” (Dekker, The Choosing 11).
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“The girl left, and Selena stood frozen in place. Ranya tugged her shirt again, but Selena ignored her. All she could think about was finding a way to protect the two daughters she had left, and the only way to do that was to leave the city “(Dekker, The Calling 25-26). This illustrates that Selena was anxious that her family would go to prison so she wanted to save her children.
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Although in the last seer series “The Returning” Elise and the Father had a family relationship. Elise escaped from the Capitol Building and found her sister and Aaron was talking to her in her thought that she was light. “Remember what I call you daughter you are the light of the world” (Dekker, The Returning 188). This demonstrates that Elise was alone the whole but the Father was talking in her thought that she was more than she thought. This conclude the family theme with the Father and Elise bond together in thought.
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As can be seen in the Seer Series, the three quotes can support the theme. In the first seer series, the Authority took Carrington because she was not qualified for being chosen. It was unpleasant time for her to leave her family. In the second seer series Selena was anxious about her children. She felt like the authority was about to take her children. In the last seer series Aaron was talking to Elise in her thoughts. She was told that she was more than she thought. The bible associate with the quotes by showing how family is important from one to one. All in all the quote and the bible verse relates with the theme
Topic: family

Paulina stayed with her grandmother in Ecuador when she was only six years- old, her parents decided to travel to the United States seeking the American dream. They never imagined that this separation would affect their daughter tremendously. After a few months, Pauline woke up many nights crying and screaming. She was always angry, throwing tantrums and missed behaving. She cried every time when she spoke to her parents on the telephone. The teacher from her school contacted her grandmother and informed that Paulina’s performance at school has decreased tremendously.
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Paulina was trying to communicate how she felt when her parents suddenly abandoned her. At such young age she could not understand what was happing? Why her parents who read to her every night, play with her and take care of her since she was born until six years of her life suddenly disappeared. She felt that she was not important to them. She also felt betrayed and learn not to trust anybody. In her relationship with her boyfriend she was always nagging, yelling or screaming at her boyfriend.
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When she was twenty years old, her parents finally were able to bring her and her two daughters to the United States. She seems happy in the beginning. She enjoyed trips to the city with her parents. Her mother convinced her to finish her education and get a career. She registered at Boces to get her GED, a credential that is commonly considered equivalent to high school diploma. Six months later she was going to emotional crisis again. She stopped going to school, she was constantly fighting with her mother. She finally told her mother all the resentment that she has for both of them. She told her that the all the money and material things that she got, did not replace them. She wanted to go back to Ecuador to her grandmother. One morning the family was getting ready to go Erick’s elementary school graduating, Paulina younger brother. Suddenly Paulina appeared screaming, crying and devastated unable to control her emotions of never been there for any of heard graduation or any especial moment in her life.
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My cousin ended up staying to leave here she moved out of her parents apartment. She lives now with her two daughters and her son. She is leaving with her son’s father. She is quite edgy, agitated. She also complaints of headaches, muscle tension and tiredness. She recently was hospitalizes for heart problems. Even though, she follows strict diet, goes to the gym and tries hard to lose weight, she still is overweight. she is insecure and very joyously person. She is depressed and feels that she is a loser. She has a hard time keeping a job; therefore, she is home with her four-year son. She is taking medication for depression. She refused psychological therapy because she believes that therapy does not help, every time that she goes to therapy she feels how she left years ago. She does not want to go back to the moment when she lost her parents, she said. It feels like part of your body is taking away.
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According to Van der Kolk (61) “when recover is blocked the body is triggered to defend itself, which makes people fell agitated and aroused. I noticed that my cousin is always in stage of fry or fight response. She over react to minus issues such as a water spill that her son will make. I will recommend this book to my cousin so she can put in practice the many mind-body therapies that Ven Ber Volk (1943) mentioned in his the book such as mindfulness meditation and mindfulness stress reduction which shown an increase in gray matter in parts of the brain associated with managing stress. All these promising therapies such as meditation, mindfulness, neurofeedback. cognitive therapy, open new avenues to healing can be part of any patients recovery plan, no matter how deep scars of trauma or how long ago they occurred, these therapies can still benefit her. If only the healthcare practitioners would begin to connect childhood trauma to and physical and mental health and encourage their patients to explore all treatments options available to them, the patient’s past, present and future will be treated. The more we learn about the toxic impact of early stress, the better equipped we are to counter its effects, and help to uncover new strategies and modalities to come back to who it is we really are, and who it was we might have been had we not encountered childhood adversity in the first place.
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Figure 4 indicates the research findings, almost 86.2 percent of the respondents stated that they organize parents meeting to discuss different issues concerning school development while 6.9 percent displayed that schools involve parents in managing schools academics. Some participants 3.4 percent contented that parents are involved in discussing discipline matters. School welfare is another issue where parents contribute their ideas; hence, 3.4 percent supported the idea of school welfare. From these findings, the study indicates that parents contribute a lot in the progress and sustainability of the schools in Ilala Municipality- Dar es Salaam.
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The participants also demonstrated that meetings were used to give clarification and information about the schools development hence creating awareness of what is taking place in the schools. The study also revealed other ways apart from attending meetings such as involving parents in academic matters that can boost academic performance which conquer with Omogbehin, (2013) who revealed the effective use of formative assessments to improve student’s achievements. However, most of the school management including school head seemed to use a single way of involving parents to their schools which was meeting and this can imply that school heads lack creativity to make parents participate in schools functions this including discipline matters, academic issues and school welfare, communication, mobilization in education finance so as to enhance education , volunteering in school activities, which might be very productive in the development of the school and progress of the students.
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Table 5 stated that educated parents 62.1 percent were active in attending meetings and other activities this might be due to their level of education they had. However, the study revealed that the single family parents 24 percent attends meetings because of their hardship life so they would like their children to study hard expecting that they will help them in the future. This is similar to the findings by Erlend (2010) who asserted that parents were highly involved in school activities for future expectations that their children will be educated than their parents hence be successful in life. This finding indicates that most of the parents who are educated prefer to send their children to good schools where they can acquire quality education. However, those low income families and even the middle income families they have no choice so they send their children to any school around them. This finding relate to from one of the interviewee who remarked that:
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The researcher also was interested to request the participants if parents involved in academic matters. The study portrayed that 17.2 percent of the participants agreed that parents are in involved in academic matters in order to improve students’ performance by convincing them to monitor their academic progress. Looking ate the statistic number for academic shows that only least of parents are involved in academic matters. This implies that parents do not make follow up of their children’s progress and this is one of the greatest limitations in education. This finding is in line with one of the interviewee who lamented that:
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This implies that parents do not play their role and responsibilities accordingly thus increased truancy and dropout hence poor performance of their final examination. However, the study revealed that 3.4 percent of the respondents identified that parents involved in discipline issues of their students to prevent truancy and other indiscipline issues. This implies that if parents could not be responsible for the academic matters it could difficult to be responsible in discipline issues because academic and discipline are two sisters who are inseparable. As one of the interviewee said:
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Parents are major stakeholder in shaping students’ academic performance and behavior. Some students miss school for more than a week and their parents do not care, we call them to school but never show up! Unfortunately, these students come during examinations, how will they perform well in these examination? It is only adding zero to school. We, heads of schools are blamed and demoted for that, who is these first person to be punished are the teacher or the parents (Interviwee IV, April,2019)
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However, the study revealed 10.3 percent of the participants identified that parents are involved in school welfare. This shows that school welfare is enhanced with the cooperation among teachers and parents to improve the school planning meetings, infrastructure, environment social welfare and the survival of the school such that the school becomes a comfortable place for everyone. Again it means that school welfare can be a means for teacher retention, increased interpersonal relationship and increased enrolment This can be supported by Lei, Cui and Chiu (2018) who advocated that strong teacher and parents support result to both positive and negative academic emotions.
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The study demonstrated that 17.5 percent respondents identified parents to be involved in monitoring students’ progress in school. Students normally do examination and sometimes they are given homework to be done by students. Parents are supposed to know what their students do in classroom and even outside classroom which help them to grow academically. This implies that by monitoring students’ progress by parents cultivate competitive spirit and seriousness in studies. Similarly Gyamfi and Pobbi, (2016) and Kibaara and Ndirangu (2014) studies revealed that parents involvement in all monitoring activities of their children towards academic work is low. There is a lot to be done to sensitize and create awareness to parents that the performance of their children is guaranteed by their closeness in knowing students day to day progress at school. Hence parental involvement is very beneficial to the teachers in assuring support to students and it can improve interpersonal relationship among teachers and parents. Another way revealed is 15 percent that identified involving in academic issues. Parents can be involved in planning for joint examinations, teaching and learning progress, remedial classes and monthly examination hence improve academic performance. Again, the findings demonstrated 12 percent parents are involved in improving school climate. School climate means the existence of relationships, physical surrounding, academic and parental involvement where teachers, students and parents feel connected respected and their work is meaningful. As scallion (2010) pointed that school climate include the internal characteristic that distinguish one school from another. Some schools are have less classes than the students enrolled others have classes as per ratio. This implies that parents have to work together with the government to make the school welcoming and conducive to all students for academic achievement.
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Figure 6 indicate the findings on challenges facing school heads in involving parents. Respondents were asked to identify the challenges school head faced in involving parents in building the school climate. The results found a significant number of respondents 41.3 percent informed that parents were reluctant to attend meetings even when they were supposed to do so most of the parents did not find the importance of the meetings. This means that parents were not committed for school activities. This relate to Theory of Epstein (2002) who concluded that six principles in spheres of influence that is parenting, communicating, volunteering, learning at home decision making and collaborating with community if adhered will helps in students’ academic, personal and social benefit. One of the interviewee when asked if has attended meeting claimed that:
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In addition, the study found free basic education Policy is a major challenge to involve parents in building the school climate. The study found an important number of respondents 27.5 percent identifying the free basic education policy as a barrier to school management to involving parents in school. In fact free basic education has added a burden to the students and parents as well since there are no sufficient books in schools, insufficient classrooms due overcrowded classes. This implies that although free education policy has guidelines for implementation parents have not understood well as one of the interviewee proclaimed that:
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Moreover, the study revealed another challenge as lack of seriousness by parents. The study found a significant number of respondents 24.1percent identified lack of seriousness by parents as an obstacle to involve parents in building the school climate. The finding implies that lack of seriousness by parents in their schools climate may lead to poor performance of students. Again, the findings revealed that the school is no one’s property thus there is no one responsible for renovation or improvement of school in general. This is in line with the finding by Berg &Noort, (2011) who reveled there were more challenges facing school heads due to parent’s not involving in school activities especially in urban areas. One interviewee vividly remarked this that:
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Figure 7 displays the research findings which reveals that majority 75 percent indicate students loved their school while 25 percent indicates that students somehow loved their school. This findings reveals that students were satisfied with the prevailing school climate despite the difficulties in overcrowded classes, lack of teaching and learning resources, shortage of science and mathematics teachers’ shortage of building and laboratories equipment. This is in line with Garshberg, (2014) who proves that poor and insufficient school infrastructure negatively impacts students learning and schooling outcome.
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In addition, figure 6 also pointed out that another challenge of involving parents in school was bad relationship exists among teachers and parents. Teachers are expected to assist parents by giving them an understanding on helping them to do homework, supporting their childrens’needs and understanding adolescent development of their children. This will help teachers to shape students behavior and prevent dropout and truancy. The field data revealed that there is no good relationship among parents and teachers especially in urban area. This findings is in relation with Berge & Noort, (2010) who revealed that lack of cooperation between parents and school. This is to say bad relationship result to poor performance in all matters.
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The pain that abandoned me for the majority of my life has risen once again. The empty holidays and festivals I experienced all my life with a damaged heart could not come close to the severity of the anguish I felt stirring up inside me. Why does life put us in these cruel situations? We are minnow subjects who involuntarily perform our scripted lives as if we were part of a play and someone else is the theatrical producer. We’re forcibly placed into situations where we are obliged to question our innocence.
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My mother’s eyes will stare back at mine, as my father’s lips frown back. “Are you ready Ms. Garza?” a lady, only a couple years older than I am right now, will ask me. “Today will be perfect,” I would reassure myself. The curtains would fly open revealing hundreds and thousands of faces staring at me center stage in front of the podium. I would take a deep breath and begin. “As we are ready to start a new chapter in our lives·.
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“My High School will forever hold the memories we treasure deeply. It was in those 4 years that we discovered ourselves and became the people whom imagined this day since kindergarten. The rest of our lives begin today. May God bless you and guide you everywhere you go.” Wiping away a tear, I witness the standing ovation I receive from the thousands of faces and thousands of seats taken before my eyes. My Dad pictured this day for years as I nestled between a blanket and the vibration of his heart beating against my tiny head, soothing me to sleep; he knew then, in that moment, he would forever watch over me. The photo albums tucked away in my mother’s closet illustrate the unforgettable memories I’ve tried to bury since my father’s absence. A moment frozen in time of a baby girl bathing in her grandma’s kitchen sink surrounded by a sea of bubbles as her father splashes her with warm water. My father’s ghost accompanied me for as long as I could remember. Refusing to believe the reality of this world, I forcedly believed in the absurdity of imagination’s power. “He left for work,” “he is still here with us,” “he will come back Jackie (my sister), don’t cry!” I had no idea she knew the truth because she was older. My mother didn’t want to tell me because how was a four-year old supposed to learn and accept that her father left with no return?
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His ghost lies beneath the truth of secrecy. I convinced myself he would return someday and when he would, he would swoop Jackie and I into those big, comforting arms of his and kiss us until we begged for mercy. It was May 24th, the day before Bring your father to school day. Every four years, the district would host a Father’s Day and Mother’s Day, where you could bring one of your parents to school and show them what you did on a regular school day-to-day basis. I often daydreamed what would happen on that day in particular when my dad would finally travel down from work and come to my school. Arriving, I would reveal my favorite seat in class, take him to the library where we’d read my favorite books: “The Chamber of Secrets,” and “Esperanza Rising.” I would invite him to rest on my favorite chair in the library, the one with the big, comfy seat and headrest, and later he’d join to play with me during recess. Later, I’d proudly introduce him to everyone in school to show them My Dad. It sounds a bit selfish, but if you were constantly getting picked on for the absence of your father on Father’s Day at school· you’d understand. I pratted endlessly of my father’s return from his full-time job. That night, I called upon the stars hoping they’d hear my cries for help. I prayed to God for his arrival, and asked God if he could guide my father tonight as he flew down to the valley. After years of unanswered questions, calls ending with the same voicemail, his arrival was only hours away. Every four years they have this special day, so my father knew. I know my father, and he wouldn’t miss a chance to be with his angel for the world.
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May 25th. Today’s the day. I woke up a full hour and a half earlier ensuring I appeared perfect. I kindly asked my mom to form my hair into two pigtails, the way my father liked my hair best, and spray a sugary perfume on me. Before heading on to the bus, I kissed my mom on the cheek and told her the words I hadn’t realized brought her tears, “Bye mommy see you later! Don’t forget daddy’s coming home today!” And just like that, I walked out the front door ignoring the wounds I had just unintentionally reopened.
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I sat impatiently at school with my eyes glued to the door. As fathers accompanying their princess flooded the small classroom, depression knocked on the door. Grinning from ear to ear, each father and daughter in class were either reading to one another, or playing in the playground. As the clock ticked by, I recall feeling hopeless. My friends came up to me with their father’s hands in theirs as they asked me where mine was and that they wanted our fathers to meet. “He’s on his way,” I reassured them. Dumbfounded, I questioned whether the one I attempted to reassure was them, or myself. Maybe his boss didn’t let him come after all? Maybe he changed his mind and will come the next four years? The laughter and love that consumed my class drove me into utter bitterness. He wasn’t coming. He left. It’s been countless birthday celebrations, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and other holidays without his physical being, why should I wait for him now? I’m tired of sitting around asking “when is Daddy coming home” only to be faced with no response. The hate and doubt began to flush out the love and hope that remained inside me. I’m tired of postcards reading “I’m sorry I couldn’t make it this year honey, but happy birthday my sunshine! Love you, mucho.” These were my remedy to soothing my afflicted heart. Convinced he ran into a problem resulting in his nonappearance, I heard the door open ever so slightly. And just like that, my scars were resilient.
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My mom peeked her head in like a turtle to ensure she was at the right classroom. What was my mother doing here? With everyone’s eyes on her, she walked up to me and smiled. She opened her mouth in an attempt to say something but all she could manage to let out was a groan as tears began to splash her rose cheeks. Two hairy, familiar hands moved her aside revealing him. My father tracing right behind her, did what I longed for years. My heart beat faster than it had ever beat before. The emotions that secluded my brain quickly spread to every inch of my body. He was here. The stars listened to my endless nights of praying. The stars guided him on the way back home. In arms wrapped around tightly, my eyes brimmed with crystal liquid. It felt unrealistic. I stared into the honey eyes of my father patiently waiting for the walls to fade, his face to slowly wither away into the dust of wind, and watch my surroundings die as I would wake up and realize this was just another dream. Fortunately, it wasn’t.
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One day, I will stand before the eyes I once thought betrayed me, in my cap and gown. I will make no hesitations when I run across the yard full of remembered loved ones and sit by his grave. He will whisper those three dulcet words and sing “it’s love without end, amen,” a song by George Strait expressing the love from a father onto his child. I will then look up into the sky and thank God for showing me the true values of love and patience. And later that night, I will say goodnight to my father up in the night sky.
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Nannie was searching for the right husband. Nannie Doss turned herself in for murdering her husbands. Doss was a lonely lady that loved to cook. She smiled all the time, she was married had four children, and spent time with her grandchildren. But Nanny Doss was a trail of death and murder that lasted from the 1920s to 1954. It was then that Nannie Doss confessed to killing four of her five husbands, and the authorities also believed that she could have killed many of her relatives.
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Doss’ story begins with her birth to a family of farmers in 1905 in Blue Mountain, Alabama. Instead of going to school, all five of Jim and Louisa Haze’s children stayed at home to work on household chores and But behind the happy was a trail of death and murder that lasted. It was then Nannie four of her five husbands was murder by her on 1942, and authorities believed she may have killed many of her blood relatives as well.
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Doss story begins with her birth to a family of farmers in 1905 in Blue Mountain, Alabama. Instead of going to school, all five of Jim and Louisa Haze’s children stayed at home to work on household chores and . At age seven, Doss suffered a head injury while riding a train. Head injury has forever changed her life. By the time she was a teenager Doss dreamed of living an idyllic life with her future husband. Reading romance magazines, especially the lonely hearts columns, took up much of the young lady’s spare time.
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Imagine how would be the life of children without their mothers. Imagine how would be the feeling of migrated mothers who left their children in their mother country. A transferred mother has to sell her time for dollars to give a better life to her kids which she didn’t have in her childhood. Most Filipino mothers have to travel to another country due to circumstances; however the possible influence of migration status on the mothering practices of these migrant women has not yet been subject to scrutiny.
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Every single minute that she is spending in that country makes her feel isolated. For instance, sampang says “I didn’t see the magic nor feel the peace these surroundings offer” in motherhood for dollars article. Since the time differences mother can’t talk to them every time since their children are sleeping and they have less time to share their feeling and ideas each other sampan in the motherhood for dollars says that ” bye bye lub you mwah mwah afterwards I’ll go to bed happy, back to my own life and they back to theirs similarly “when I called my mom to tell my problems that I’m having here without her she said” I’m busy I love you I will call you back my love” so it maked not to tell anything to her because she is busy”(Medeleine Vibert,They stole my innocence/toni Maguire,page:200)
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Emphasize the importance of a mother’s physical presence at home to guide her children effectively. Most children who don’t have their parents with them are choosing wrong paths in their lives because they don’t have proper guidance. The life of Filipino migrant mothers resolves around the reproduction of family life, not only through sending remittance money but also through maintaining a sort of gifts characterized by the exchange of objects, words and gestures of good will. Similarly sampang says “I’d believed I’ve raised them right, and expressed my motherly love in a variety of personal and material ways” in motherhood for dollars.
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Having boxes of boxes of gifts is nothing without a mother. Each and every object that mother is sending is filling up the home and boxes as well but the it can’t covers the mothers absence anymore. Different materials which has manufactured from alliance counties what we can do with that without a mother. “When my son died two years ago, I accepted it because I was practical. I was thinking about the future of my other children. It was like, I just tried to stand the pain. · Of course we will not depend on my siblings, I’m the only person on who[m] my children count, so whatever happens, even if I am painful inside that I wasn’t able to see his dead body, I hope he will forgive me, I hope he will understand the situation. “(Vivian, mother of seven, undocumented migrant since 1997)
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Mother always wants to see the success of their kids’ lives it mostly showcase in motherhood for dollars article because sampan says “I remind them every chance I got that I was here and they were there because I wanted them to have the things I never has as a child”, isn’t it a innocent hope that is she holding in her life that is what she wants always to see in her kids’ lives. As long as physically mother is with her children are having a good life style and education as well. Mother is always asking what are the children’s needs and migrated mother always sending money to get everything that her kids wanted because she always wants to show that she is here for them anytime and let me know the needs that want she will provide. Nevertheless, children need nothing without mother that is the reality.
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Overall, emotion allows the reader to understand sampangs situation better. I think a life without mother is like a dark room with no electricity. However, every migrated mother has a reason to leave their children that is because she always wants to give a better life that she never had in her childhood. Physically absence is making kids’ lives so worst as sampan says that only the very first kid completed university successfully others got married in their teenage. Emotion wrap up everything in this sampan story and the life without mother who has lmigrated.
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However, during the late 90s, Zimbabwe and many sub-Saharan countries were devastated by the HIV/AIDS pandemic which brought about pronounced changes to the longstanding and historic family institution. During the early days of the pandemic, HIV/AIDS resulted in widespread deaths of the infected which resulted in a burgeoning orphan crisis in Southern Africa. The HIV/AIDS pandemic coupled with declining economic performance brought about by the Economic Structural Adjustment Programmes (ESAPs) of the early 90s and subsequent retrenchments resulted in the breaking down of the family institution as well as the community fabric to take care of orphans and vulnerable children in Zimbabwe who were on the rise.
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The approach adopted by international agencies and governments of affected countries was to strongly discourage the construction of orphanages and direct their efforts at re-enforcing the traditional family system and improving the capacity of local communities to provide care. The traditional welfare provision for orphans outside families and the kinship system has been containment in institutions, largely financed through charitable donations (Ennew, 2005). The level and quality of care provided in institutions differs from one institution to another depending on the type of internal organization, the size of the family or other internal unit, internal equipment, the number of qualified staff, the working hours of caregivers and the type of relationship they have with the children, management style, the overall atmosphere within the institution and financial resources (Cahajic et al, 2003).
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based organisations and in particular non-conformist churches, have been almost exclusively responsible for this expansion (Powell, et al, 2004). A majority of these new institutions continue to utilise a dormitory model despite clear evidence that this type of institution deprives children of a family life and may result in permanent psychological damage. The Department of Social Services failed to regulate the development of new institutions, largely because of weaknesses in the current registration process. It was further reported that a lack of understanding of the undesirable effects of institutional care on the part of social welfare officers in the DSS was a contributing factor towards the expansion of residential care institutions in Zimbabwe.
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Information from Save The Children indicates that eight million children live in institutions worldwide (Mulugeta, 2003). Mulugeta (2003) further notes that in Liberia for instance, the number of orphanages grew from four in 1989 to one hundred and seventeen by 2001. According to the International Services and UNICEF (2004), children in residential care increased by 66% between 1998 and 2001 worldwide. In Zimbabwe institutions such as Matthew Rusike and Save Our Souls (SOS) Waterfalls in Harare, Mother of Peace in Mutoko and Manhinga children’s home in Rusape house children who are orphaned or abandoned.