Early Years Assignment: Signs of Hardships and Support Required

This assignment delves into the various challenges faced by children in their early years, identifying signs of hardship stemming from poverty, remote locations, disabilities, communication barriers, child abuse, poor mental health, and lack of access to medical resources. The assignment outlines the emotional and physical manifestations of these hardships, such as hunger, anxiety, anger, and depression, and emphasizes the need for extra support to improve their living standards and overall well-being. It highlights crucial areas where support is needed, including education, medical care, proper nutrition, and humanitarian aid, and underscores the importance of fostering a sense of hope and providing tools to overcome life's challenges. The assignment references several academic sources to support its findings, covering topics from child poverty and brain development to mental health outcomes following child abuse.

Early Years

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There are various signs that children shows when they live in poverty, remote locations,
disability, having communication barriers, being abused, having poor mental health, non-
availability of medial aids etc.
Poverty-
Some of the common signs showed by children when they suffer from poverty are
Hunger and unhygienic health as children don't get proper food as children and their parents
cannot buy food for them due to poverty.
Remote locations-
Children who live in remote locations which show the signs of lack of trust. Another sign
is anger and depression, as children are not been reached and helped due to remote locations.
Disability-
Signs shown by children are anxiousness, depression, anger etc as children fell in
depression regarding their health and become anxious about their future.Communication
barriers-
Communication barriers lead to the signs of hopelessness and anger as they have not been
contacted which results in the loss of hope among the children.
Child abuse-
It leads to the signs of angry and children fell in depression regarding their humiliation
that they face during child abuse (Hair and et.al., 2015). It also leads to Anxiousness and lack of
trust are also the signs shown by the children who face child abuse.
Poor mental health-
Signs of poor mental health are pro longed negative mood often accompanied by poor
appetite or thoughts of deaths.
Non access of doctors or dentists-
Signs of non access of doctors are poor health, diseases, children also feel scared form
the people who even want to help them because they are not frequently reached to help which
results in anxiousness and lack of trust among such children.
Attitude-
Signs of negative attitude are stubborn nature, irresponsible nature, mood shifts etc.
Different culture-
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Signs of children belonging to different culture are gender inequality, anger,
hopelessness.
Due to all of these signs children have to suffer from hardships of life which results in
other signs which effect their well-being (Chaudry and Wimer, 2016). Children also suffer from
early age stress due to these hardships as children suffer from insufficient hygiene, wear old and
torn clothes which effect they physically and emotionally that results in early age stress in these
type of children. Children also show signs of physical and emotional needs due to these problem
as the children have to face early hardships due to non-availability of proper medical help, proper
education, hygienic food and lack of proper amenities etc which make them physically and
emotionally needy. So these are the signs which children show when they suffer from these
problems.
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If a child is living in such conditions they need extra support because by providing extra
support which improve the living standards of these children. By providing the extra support will
help the children to overcome from the various types of depressions. As these type of children
suffer from various physical and mental problems but by providing extra support will help to
overcome from these physical and mental problems and will improve their physical and mental
conditions (Rose, 2018). By providing extra support will make they realise that they are being
taken care and will feel part of this world. By providing extra support to these type of children
will help in making their future better by providing extra support will develop a sense of hope
within them and which is important for these type of children suffering with these conditions. By
proving extra support will develop a sense of satisfaction of life among the children and will
make them feel happy. By providing extra support to the children, they will be able to deal with
the problem and hardships quite easily and will also increase their moral support to deal with the
challenges of life (Yan and et.al., 2017). They will also feel motivated to deal with problems. So
providing extra support to these children is import because it will help them to deal with most of
problems faced by them in present and in future.
Children need extra support in various areas that will help in overcoming various
problems of life. The areas like education, by providing proper education to the children will act
as a catalyst to the children out of the poverty in future. By educating poor children will give
them knowledge and power to dream about better future. By providing support in education will
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improve standards of their health and will also help in reducing the spreading of communicable
diseases. Medical support is also key area of concern as majority of poor children suffer from
malnutrition and other diseases, so by proving support in this area will save many lives of the
children and will also make their living better (Afifi, and et.al., 2016). By providing help in this
area will improve their well-being and will make them capable to tackle the challenges of future.
Another key areas to provide support to children is proper nutrition, by providing proper
nutrition to will help the children overcome come the problems of malnutrition and also will
decrease the causes of malnutrition. Children also need support of providing knowledge on
gender and development. Working with communities and families will help in eliminating
various negative cultural attitudes and will strength the roles of improving the status of girl child.
Children also need extra support of humanitarian emergency assistance to provide lifesaving
support at the times of disasters and epidemics, by providing such support will save many lives
of children at the time of disasters and epidemic.
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REFERENCES
Afifi, T. O and et.al., 2016. Individual-and relationship-level factors related to better mental
health outcomes following child abuse: Results from a nationally representative
Canadian sample. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 61(12). pp.776-788.
Chaudry, A. and Wimer, C., 2016. Poverty is not just an indicator: the relationship between
income, poverty, and child well-being. Academic pediatrics. 16(3). pp.S23-S29.
Hair, N. L and et.al., 2015. Association of child poverty, brain development, and academic
achievement. JAMA pediatrics. 169(9). pp.822-829.
Rose, J. A., 2018. Assessing the Learning Needs of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellows
Related to Child Poverty and Social Determinants of Health: a Curricular Needs
Assessment Study.
Yan, M. C and et.al., 2017. Perceptions of Disability and Special Education Among East Asian
Parents: US Immigrants and Non-Immigrants. Journal of International Special Needs
Education. 20(1). pp.41-55.
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