Typical Atypical Child Development



Typical Atypical Child Development

Answer 01

There is a long history of prevalence of community violence in the United States. Community violence gives rise to health concerns of children who have to go through violent experiences. Some children are exposed to mild levels of violence whereas some have to go through severe type of violence (Shahinfar et. al, 2000). The incidents which include mild violence being inflicted upon children involve beating, pushing or shoving the children, chasing and slapping. The violence of severe type includes exposing the children to robbery, threatening them using a weapon, stabbing them, and shooting. After studying four different factors in the context of community violence that included witnessing or being the victims of mild or severe violence, over 66% of the parents and 78.15 of the children reported that the child had been a victim or had witnessed at least one incidence of violence (Shahinfar et. al, 2000).

A detailed examination was conducted of the qualitative responses given to questions regarding incidents which were witnessed or reported by children and parents. This evaluation supported the statistical findings of discordance that existed between reports of exposure given by children and parents. It was noticed that the details of probe responses given by children and parents appeared to relate to different incidents even when both the children and the parents had given positive responses to items of violence exposure. Community violence exerts adverse effects on children as it becomes a part of the experiences that children go through when they are very young, but leaves a mark that stays with them for the rest of their lives and distorts their personality to a great extent. The younger children usually spend most of their time in the supervision of their parents or adult care givers and it is their responsibility to keep a check that violent events do not occur and an environment is maintained that is beneficial for the child's learning and development (Shahinfar et. al, 2000).

Answer 02

I completely agree that parents who spend more time with their children and give them more attention have children who exhibit better outcomes of development compared to parents who do not spend much time with their children. Parents play an integral role in children's lives and the time that they spend with children is pertinent to the child's development. The time that parents and children spend together forms the basis of the relationship between them. It is important to note that the mother is the person whom the child looks up to and she is his caregiver in the early phases of life. The time that mothers in particular, give to their infants and young children becomes a central construct in the developmental and economic theories which outline the influences of family on the development of children (Huston & Aronson, 2005).

The studies that were carried out depict that the amount of time which mothers spend with their infant children during 3 months of their age is has ...