Drugs & Alcohol Abuse

The video clip showed a lot of information about what is happening to today's children because of the use of drugs and alcohol use of their parents. I don't think it's fair to the children that they have to born into a home that is unstable because their parents cannot contorl their addictions. There are so many children being taken away from their homes, that their is not enough room for all of them in foster homes. The childen that are being taken away experience child abuse and neglect because drugs are the number one factor. The repated violence and neglect causes long term psychogical affects on children. The violent streak may carry over to the children, and they will do the same things.

If a child in my classroom is in a family where the parents abuse drug and achohol I will have to be able to know how to deal with the situation. Children who are in these families may have a harder time focusing in class, because they have so much on their minds about what they are dealing with at home. The child may also have a hard time getting good grades because they can never get any work done at home, and they may never understand the material.

Poverty in America

Poverty and homelesness is a problem for youth in America because it is hard for them to get out of it. If their parents are poor and homeless, they are also poor and homeless. The young children also have dreams they want to accomplish but cannot beccause they don't have any money, or they have to contribute most of their time being the care taker of their siblings. Once a child is brought up in poverty, it is a struggle for them to get past it. In order for them to stop the line of poverty in their families, they have to overcome many struggles.

As a teacher I will address these problems by helping my students out. I will make sure they have enough help at home and in the classroom. I will have to be understanding about the the situation and remember that the child is having problems at home, and it may contribute to problems in the classroom.