Homes for Families: From a Life Course Perspective
Families who are homeless or become homeless may find themselves to be angry can start over as they begin again by building a new life in a home within the life course perspective. The life course perspective of developing a home is not a new trend within social work practice. The human growth that takes place within a home is remarkable how the biological, psychological, social, historical, political, spiritual, and economic systems are developed within a home from the life course perspective. How a home helps to shape one’s life through the developmental stages of the human growth process that takes place within the walls of a home. Memories that are made within a home as parents embark on a new endeavor of having a home, buying a new home, or having a new home built. The atmosphere of a home can affect the lives of all persons within the family dynamics spiritually even the persons who have lived in a home prior to taking residence or ownership of the home. If a home has character, then a home can have spirituality to it by the spiritual beliefs that are represented by the dwellers of the home. As a spiritual atmosphere transcends throughout the home it carries into the lives of others who not only dwell within the home, but visit the home. Also the socioeconomic status of a home develops a financial atmosphere either secure or not secure, and the financial atmosphere within a home rest on and in the dwellers of the home. The atmospheres’ of a home are sensed by those who dwell in the home subconsciously, consciously, and by those who are guest within a home through entertainment, holidays, family reunions, and neighborhood block parities in which sense, feel, and experience the character of a home.
The surroundings of a home within and outside of a home also exemplify the meaning of a home through symbolism of more than a person’s taste, but of a person’s personality, and likes. The likes of a home change over the years as both the marriage of a father and mother grow closer together, and the children grow older. The biological, psychological, economic systems within a home and the social aspects of a home change due to real life experiences determine the shaping of a person’s paradigm.
The history of a home is significant to the homeowner and the community; however, when an individual is homeless the history of a home may be the last thing on their mind.
Hutchison, E.D, Dimensions of Humana Behavior: The Changing Life Course. (2008) Los Angeles, London, New Dehli, Singapore: Sage Publications.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Finding Homes for Infants, Children, and Adolescents
Finding homes for infants, children, and adolescents who are homeless within the United States as well as other countries without parents or parents who have lost their parental rights have been placed within the foster care system early on in life find themselves waiting to be adopted after many foster placements longing and yearning for a home. How can finding homes for homeless infants, children, and adolescents are accomplished since foster homes are limited and more adoptive parents are needed? As it is the objective to stop the cycle of homelessness; it should also be the objective to find more homes through public service announcements, advertising, and marketing that more foster homes are needed and more adoptive parents are needed. Within every DHR, Department of Human Resources foster care parenting classes are held in order to become a foster parent. There are state adoptions, open adoptions, closed adoptions, and there are international adoptions. In some cases there are waiting lists for international adoptions. As there are millions of infants, children, and adolescents within the states and other countries that need safe and secure homes filled with love and respect as a child learns to trust, respect himself or herself, respect others, and to establish a strong identity and self-image that is part of the person-in environment. Finding homes for infants, children, and adolescents is a protective factor for families by providing homes through foster homes prior to adoption or not is more than just an opportunity. It is a responsibility entrusted in building, restoring, and establishing a life through means of providing a respectful, loving, nurturing, trusting environment that is a supportive home filled with love for infants to adolescents who have experienced abandonment and rejection. As you can imagine the impact and affects of abandonment and rejection within a person mentally and emotionally are critical within the life course perspective of an individual. The culture and environment of an infant, child, or adolescent impacts their survival as an adult. Children’s health and education are extremely impacted from homelessness.
As having researched the depth and magnitude that as homelessness is rooted from poverty initially. Even though homelessness has been found to be a repetitive cycle among families and with all populations it is imperative to stop the cycle of homelessness and to stop the cycle of abandonment and rejection within infants, children, and adolescents who are without homes by providing safe and secure homes for them within communities.
Once again, homelessness has struck families of all socioeconomic status and abandonment and rejection has struck many. As a loss of a home from a change in economic status that is grieving to the spirit and soul of a man or woman so is the spirit of abandonment and rejection grieving to a soul of an infant, child, or adolescent in realizing the importance of the value of a home and not just in dollar value, but the value of providing a safe and secure home for homeless infants, children and adolescents from the life course perspective.
As having researched the depth and magnitude that as homelessness is rooted from poverty initially. Even though homelessness has been found to be a repetitive cycle among families and with all populations it is imperative to stop the cycle of homelessness and to stop the cycle of abandonment and rejection within infants, children, and adolescents who are without homes by providing safe and secure homes for them within communities.
Once again, homelessness has struck families of all socioeconomic status and abandonment and rejection has struck many. As a loss of a home from a change in economic status that is grieving to the spirit and soul of a man or woman so is the spirit of abandonment and rejection grieving to a soul of an infant, child, or adolescent in realizing the importance of the value of a home and not just in dollar value, but the value of providing a safe and secure home for homeless infants, children and adolescents from the life course perspective.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Building Homes for Families with the Life Course Perspective
Building a home as in comparison to the life course perspective of understanding the different stages in life is imperative as the architect and engineer design and construct a home by laying a strong and solid foundation is just as important as the foundation of establishing a home for a family. Laying a foundation from a life course perspective begins with pregnancy, infancy, and toddlerhood. These years are so critical in that the developmental stages of a child’s life. It is extremely important that as a family Building Homes for families within the Life Course Perspective
builds a home that a child feel s safe, secure, loved, wanted, and accepted from the moment the child is taken home from the hospital.
The developmental stages are critical as the brain grows it affects all of the stages as the child approaches early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood. The brain is the foundation of a life’s development as is the foundation of a home.
In building a home it takes much supplies and tools as the synapses are reduced which affects the building and growing of the brain as in comparison to building a home from the ground up. Building a home is more than walls, paint, nails, flooring, ceiling, sanding, blasting, concrete, etc. As those are the essential tools in building a home. The essential tools for building a home for families takes different tools in that as families which consist of two parent households or single parent households build a home parents provide an atmosphere, environment, that is conducive for the developmental stages of an expanded learning capacity which affects the sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, concrete operations stage, and the formal operations stage within a child’s life range from birth and forward. These stages include infancy, early childhood, and adolescence, and young adulthood as well as late adulthood years.
As parents take on the most significant role of stimulating a child’s development through touch. The human touch is powerful as a parent holds a child, and looks into the eyes of an infant in that if affects the development. The effects of play with children and with their parents are also the building tools within building a family. The structure of a home and the structure of a family have an incredible impact which has been proven that touching and holding infants affect their brain development and when an infant is not touched it impairs the development of the brain. As the child grows the physical development changes as a home changes when is being constructed. The building of a physical home and the building of a child’s life is recognizing and establishing the identity of a child as a physical house represents an identity. The identity of a child is established from the self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth as a home consists of a safe environment, with nutritious meals for the physical development of the child as is homes for families.
Hutchison, Elizabeth D. Dimensions of Third Edition Human Behavior 2008
builds a home that a child feel s safe, secure, loved, wanted, and accepted from the moment the child is taken home from the hospital.
The developmental stages are critical as the brain grows it affects all of the stages as the child approaches early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood. The brain is the foundation of a life’s development as is the foundation of a home.
In building a home it takes much supplies and tools as the synapses are reduced which affects the building and growing of the brain as in comparison to building a home from the ground up. Building a home is more than walls, paint, nails, flooring, ceiling, sanding, blasting, concrete, etc. As those are the essential tools in building a home. The essential tools for building a home for families takes different tools in that as families which consist of two parent households or single parent households build a home parents provide an atmosphere, environment, that is conducive for the developmental stages of an expanded learning capacity which affects the sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, concrete operations stage, and the formal operations stage within a child’s life range from birth and forward. These stages include infancy, early childhood, and adolescence, and young adulthood as well as late adulthood years.
As parents take on the most significant role of stimulating a child’s development through touch. The human touch is powerful as a parent holds a child, and looks into the eyes of an infant in that if affects the development. The effects of play with children and with their parents are also the building tools within building a family. The structure of a home and the structure of a family have an incredible impact which has been proven that touching and holding infants affect their brain development and when an infant is not touched it impairs the development of the brain. As the child grows the physical development changes as a home changes when is being constructed. The building of a physical home and the building of a child’s life is recognizing and establishing the identity of a child as a physical house represents an identity. The identity of a child is established from the self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth as a home consists of a safe environment, with nutritious meals for the physical development of the child as is homes for families.
Hutchison, Elizabeth D. Dimensions of Third Edition Human Behavior 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
How anger in homeless families relate to the Upside of Anger
How anger within the homeless relates to the Upside of Anger
How anger within the homeless relates to the Upside of Anger is that the similarity within the homeless was also within the Wolfmeyers family in the film Upside of Anger. Anger is such a strong emotion that can produce extreme emotions that will kill a person on the inside causing the individual to become numb inside as in comparison to a homeless individual. Homelessness causes so many emotions and feelings from being abandoned, rejected due to crises some of which are not there fault. For example, a mother with more than one child who has been abused and leaves her husband for safety could be from any socioeconomic status finds herself in a homeless shelter that would be angry. There are many reasons that produce homelessness not just poverty as homeless people have not just come from a proven stricken environment.
Even though there are still ever growing statistics with men, women, veterans, adolescents, elderly, and single parents. A single parents including single men with children in which homelessness not only kills people it has numbing affects not only on the adult, but on the children as well. It is imperative that we as citizens of the United States of America not overlook the less fortunate, the hungry within our own country, but to acknowledge those who fought for our freedom and patriotism that our flag stands for and find themselves without jobs as they are either over qualified or under qualified. The over qualified and under qualified includes all populations and not just the Veterans, College graduates as well. Highly skilled and trained individuals who have fought for our country have found jobs and have been laid off with spouses and children to feed to have found themselves within a family crisis of medical bills
There similarity of anger within homelessness and the Wolfmeyer’s is that of anger. Homeless are homeless for many situations in and from every socioeconomic class and experience fear, hurt, humiliation, anger, resentment, ostracized, or may feel like a caste away. Feelings of a caste away as if they are not wanted, welcomed, or accepted as the hundreds of people who pass them by on the streets with in cities. Homeless people who do not look someone in the eye or have felt belittled and demeaned as their self-worth, self-value, and self-esteemed have been demised. How can a homeless person be compared to the Wolfmeyers is that when Terry Wolfmeyer thought her husband had left her for his assistant she to felt all the feelings and emotions that anger produces on the inside of a person’s soul. Anger a very powerful and destructive force to not only the soul, mind, demeanor of the person as well as one’s character. It is the very thing that can not only numb a person, but anger on the inside of a person can kill a person. Anger, loneliness, betrayal, hurt can be so deeply embedded in the minds of the homeless and a woman who has the impression that her husband had left her, but in reality he had been dead for years and out of her anger and her pride she never called. She assumed the worst the unspeakable, the most unforgivable sin as she allowed herself to grow with indifference within herself as it affected her family as society becomes indifferent with the homeless population. Society in differs the homeless for many reasons as they pass the man in the cardboard box daily. Do people ever stop to think if the homeless are angry or do we think they are just lazy individuals who do not want to work?
The Wolfmeyer family and the homeless relate with anger as Terry and her daughter’s were able to overcome their anger and stay together. Homeless families also stay together and can stop the cycle of homelessness as well as families within homes can stop the cycle of anger.
How anger within the homeless relates to the Upside of Anger is that the similarity within the homeless was also within the Wolfmeyers family in the film Upside of Anger. Anger is such a strong emotion that can produce extreme emotions that will kill a person on the inside causing the individual to become numb inside as in comparison to a homeless individual. Homelessness causes so many emotions and feelings from being abandoned, rejected due to crises some of which are not there fault. For example, a mother with more than one child who has been abused and leaves her husband for safety could be from any socioeconomic status finds herself in a homeless shelter that would be angry. There are many reasons that produce homelessness not just poverty as homeless people have not just come from a proven stricken environment.
Even though there are still ever growing statistics with men, women, veterans, adolescents, elderly, and single parents. A single parents including single men with children in which homelessness not only kills people it has numbing affects not only on the adult, but on the children as well. It is imperative that we as citizens of the United States of America not overlook the less fortunate, the hungry within our own country, but to acknowledge those who fought for our freedom and patriotism that our flag stands for and find themselves without jobs as they are either over qualified or under qualified. The over qualified and under qualified includes all populations and not just the Veterans, College graduates as well. Highly skilled and trained individuals who have fought for our country have found jobs and have been laid off with spouses and children to feed to have found themselves within a family crisis of medical bills
There similarity of anger within homelessness and the Wolfmeyer’s is that of anger. Homeless are homeless for many situations in and from every socioeconomic class and experience fear, hurt, humiliation, anger, resentment, ostracized, or may feel like a caste away. Feelings of a caste away as if they are not wanted, welcomed, or accepted as the hundreds of people who pass them by on the streets with in cities. Homeless people who do not look someone in the eye or have felt belittled and demeaned as their self-worth, self-value, and self-esteemed have been demised. How can a homeless person be compared to the Wolfmeyers is that when Terry Wolfmeyer thought her husband had left her for his assistant she to felt all the feelings and emotions that anger produces on the inside of a person’s soul. Anger a very powerful and destructive force to not only the soul, mind, demeanor of the person as well as one’s character. It is the very thing that can not only numb a person, but anger on the inside of a person can kill a person. Anger, loneliness, betrayal, hurt can be so deeply embedded in the minds of the homeless and a woman who has the impression that her husband had left her, but in reality he had been dead for years and out of her anger and her pride she never called. She assumed the worst the unspeakable, the most unforgivable sin as she allowed herself to grow with indifference within herself as it affected her family as society becomes indifferent with the homeless population. Society in differs the homeless for many reasons as they pass the man in the cardboard box daily. Do people ever stop to think if the homeless are angry or do we think they are just lazy individuals who do not want to work?
The Wolfmeyer family and the homeless relate with anger as Terry and her daughter’s were able to overcome their anger and stay together. Homeless families also stay together and can stop the cycle of homelessness as well as families within homes can stop the cycle of anger.
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