I can truly say as a child growing up during the 70’s and
80’s I didn’t encounter any of the stressors listed. It’s so amazing to me that I didn’t stumble upon any of theses
stressors coming up during a time when resources were not readily available as
they are today. I believe I avoided
these stressors by having two working parents who made sure my siblings and I
had everything we needed in order to flourish even though resources were
limited. I truly think that during the
era I came up people had morals and values and were truly concern about one
another and we didn’t face all these different stressors that we are faced with
today. I’m not saying that people now
don’t have morals and values but today people are faced with so many things
that didn’t existed during my time.
During my time it was a village that raised a child nowadays that’s
nonexistence. I may not have had all
that I wanted but I did have what I needed.
Unlike the upbringing I had children of
today are faced with many stressors.
One stressors that children of South Africa are faced with are having
HIV-positive parents. In addition to
this children are faced with other stressors as well such as poverty and crime,
which places them in danger of psychosocial adjustment problems and
vulnerability to HIV-infection. Financial and economic deprivation has an
effect on access to schooling, food and health, which leads to poverty, and
increased vulnerability
to HIV-infection
amid
children as a result of commercial sex work and sexual exploitation. South Africa is described as one of the
most violent countries of the world adversely affecting child outcome causing
attention problems, depression and aggression.
It saddens me to know that children have to deal with stressor of this
magnitude it really makes me appreciate my upbringing even more.
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