Examining the Influence of Common Worries on Family Choices & Actions

This essay delves into the four common worries that parents often have about their children, particularly those with impairments: lack of mental competency leading to vulnerability, the dangerousness of the person to others, poor quality of life, and the fear of social destruction. The analysis explores how these fears can influence family decisions and actions, sometimes leading to choices that may not be considered optimal. Using Devin's story as an example, the essay highlights how a mother's fear of poor quality of life for her child with spastic cerebral palsy, visual impairment, and limited verbalization skills can shape her interactions and decisions. The essay emphasizes the importance of understanding these underlying fears to better support families facing such challenges. The document is available for students on Desklib, a platform offering a range of AI-based study tools and resources.

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Part 1:
Common worries:
In the thousands of years of guardianship and other protective measures, four common
concern of parenthood highlighted in every piece of literature that people always has about their
children. These four worries are the following:
1. Lack of mental competency which enhances vulnerability:
It was observed that parents are being fearful that impaired mentality or judgments might
make their children victims to exploitation in terms of financial exploitation and sexual
exploitation (Kaiser et al., 2016).
Actions:
• Parents may not create a safe environment based on a stronger relationship with immediate
family members as well as extended family members (Sun & Smith, 2017).
• Parents may not provide access to more flexible and appropriate supportive care to the child
for minimizing exploitation and provide education from childhood for avoiding exploitation.
2. The dangerousness of person to others:
Dahrendorf (2017), highlighted that parents are fearful that the harmful tendency of one person
may cause harm to other person and this can be through sexual or criminal behavior of the
person.

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Actions
• Parents may not teach children self-management skills from early childhood to reduce the
harmful behavior of children to others
• Parents may not communicate with children to change the harmful at an early age before it
harms another person.
3. Poor quality of life:
Thomsen (2016), argued that in the majority of the cases parents of early that their
children may be subjected to risk of accident, chronic health care issues or cannot survive in the
current work that leads to poor quality of life.
Actions:
• Parents may never let children out of their sight due to fear
• Parents may scold children for choosing the poor quality of life.
4. Fear of being subjected to social destruction:
Majority of parents become apprehensive that their children may be subjected to social
destructions such as bully or ridicule due to the vulnerable to children.
Actions:
• Parents may impulsive steps to reduce the behavior to reduce the effect of social destructions
(Young & Rabiner, 2015).
• Parents may never let children out of their sight because of fear.

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Part 2:
In Devin’s story, poor quality of life is one of the significant fear is expressed by the
mother (Porritt et al., 2017). It is was observed that Devin have a spastic cerebral palsy, visual
impairment and limited verbalization skills and necessary use of a wheelchair for mobility, the
majority of the people how to interact with Devin may find it overwhelmed. Due to the presence
of these health challenges, he is not able to communicate verbally rather he has an alpha talker
and have some programmed speech to communicate with another person’s life. It is difficult for
him to communicate with other person and express his feelings when the pictures and medium
are not present. Therefore, this kind of apprehensiveness is common for a mother to adopt when
her child is surviving through significant health challenges.

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Dahrendorf, R. (2017). Out of utopia: toward a reorientation of sociological analysis.
In Utopia (pp. 103-126). Routledge.
Kaiser, B. N., Haroz, E. E., Kohrt, B. A., Bolton, P. A., Bass, J. K., & Hinton, D. E. (2015).
“Thinking too much”: a systematic review of a common idiom of distress. Social Science
& Medicine, 147, 170-183.
Porritt, J., Rodd, H., Morgan, A., Williams, C., Gupta, E., Kirby, J., ... & Prasad, S. (2017).
Development and testing of a cognitive behavioral therapy resource for children’s dental
anxiety. JDR Clinical & Translational Research, 2(1), 23-37.
Sun, K. C. Y., & Smith, J. M. (2017). Parenting, Uncertainty, and Expert Advice: How
Privileged American Families Work with Private Counselors in Their Children's College
Race. Symbolic Interaction, 40(1), 3-24.
Thomsen, T. U. (2016). Parents’ construction of traffic safety: children’s independent mobility at
risk?. In Social perspectives on mobility (pp. 21-38). Routledge.
Young, A. S., & Rabiner, D. (2015). Racial/ethnic differences in parent-reported barriers to
accessing children’s health services. Psychological services, 12(3), 267.

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