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Childhood Trauma vs. Black Youth
imani Badie THE SOUTHERN DIGEST
BRYSON ARMSTRONG ANIMAL SCIENCE BATON ROUGE
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“IT SHOULD BE A NICE ENVIRONMENT, WEATHER GOOD, AND A NICE ATMOSPHERE. LOOKING FORWARD TO THE SPRINGFEST EDITION OF PRETTY WEDNESDAY AS WELL.”
As time goes by in the world, a lot of choices African American youth make are due to childhood trauma.
Childhood trauma endures from a lack of love and support. The way someone is raised says a lot about their characteristics as a person. Childhood trauma shows when people get into relationships and don’t know how to properly love their significant other. Things such as not listening to your partner, only worrying about yourself, and saying hurtful things can come from the neglect felt as a child. Usually, people don’t even realize that trauma has made them this way, and in most cases, people are aware but don’t know how to change this matter.
Outside of relationships, childhood trauma can cause one to have jealousy in their heart. Being loved poorly by guardians can often cause one to hate to see another with that type of love in their lives. This is heartbreaking because inside they are still that inner child looking for love. They have no idea what love is, and they look for it in the wrong places. The topic of childhood trauma is so common nowadays because this generation is making one another aware and is trying to break these generational curses.
Something that I would do to help prevent this for my children is to give them an abundance of love and support no matter who they choose to be or what they choose to do. I feel like the problem in today’s world is that everyone has an opinion on something “you” chose to do. For my kids, I want them to always know that they have someone to confide in. It’s hard to confide in people now because people have negative intentions which makes it hard to trust anyone. I will teach my kids lessons about how to never lose themselves because of what someone else thinks of them. Self-love is truly important when enduring in a world full of opinions. Life comes with these trials and tribulations, but I will give my children every lesson that I’ve learned and how I got through things. That way they never lack knowledge.
