Child Essays

“Fiela’s child” written by Dalene Matthees is a fictional book about a young white boy who is raised in a family of blacks for over nine years of his life. One day he is taken away to a family of whites which is supposed to be his real family. At …

15 years is a long time and especially so for one who has not lived that long yet. Today teens like me are expected to know what they want do later in life. Maybe if it were not the twenty first century I could be imaginative but that would be …

When you are a child, who takes care of you? Now, the cost of living is so high that many people under age twenty-five are moving back in with their parents. Young people are getting married later now than they used to. The average age for a woman to get …

This essay shall examine the contribution of Jean Piaget to our understanding of child development. Until the mid 1900’s psychologists had no useful theory for explaining how children’s minds change as they age. Psychologists interested in this field either has to study it in relation to behaviourism, which emphasises that …

This essay will focus on an incident that I have reflected on in my previous critical reflection. I shall use this as the basis for this essay and expand on and explore the issues that arise from the topics uncovered. During the break of a lecture on genograms, I was …

“Child of the Americas”, a poem by Aurora Levins Morales describes the perspective of a Puerto Rican woman that has a very diverse ancestral background who has immigrated to the United States. “Amerícan”, on the other hand, is a more so broader depiction of a very similiar concept to that …

The role of faith has always played a part in every child’s heart. At some point when we were little, we listened to the bed-time stories as if they were real, we depended on the happily-ever stories as our source of faith, knowing that someday, we will all strive for …

The Concrete Operational Stage Jean Piaget was a psychologist who was originally from Switzerland. He found five consistent systems within certain broad age3 ranges. The five stages are: 1. Sensorimotor stage-ages 0-2 2. Preoperational stage-ages 2-7 3. Concrete operations stage-ages 7-11 4. Formal operations stage-ages 11-16 5. Late formal operations …

“Children are at risk of being sexually abused from the time they are born through adolescence, with the greatest risk occurring between the ages of seven and thirteen…children are never responsible for their sexual abuse, adults are the ones responsible” (McClendon, page 1). There are many questions that researchers are …

The family is a fundamental unit encompassing the human society in which it is partnered. What then happens when this vital support unit is overwhelmed by domestic violence? In this essay I will try to point out to you the issues of family violence from a feminist point of view …