Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Consider this!

It is important to understand how an individual becomes vulnerable so that we can work to prevent or at least decrease population vulnerabilities. I would like to describe a schematic (because I cannot draw) and I am curious to see what people think of it. I think that all individuals who are in the vulnerable population their whole lives, are born as 100% victim, then slowly (through adolescence and into adulthood), but never completely, phase into being sinners.
In early childhood, there are causes of vulnerability that the child cannot control like the neighborhood, low educational stimulation, low parental involvement, low positive encouragement, race, since its looked at to analyze vulnerability, and parental language barrier. In adolescence, even though the individual begins to make choices, the are factors that make him part of the vulnerable population include living in a low morale, low SES, low educational stimulation, low sex education, high stress, and high negative encouragement. In adulthood, an individual can make his own choices but there are factors that make him part of the vulnerable population like not having a higher education, low employment opportunities, low social capital, substance abuse, STD's, early parental and martial status, homelessness, and self language barrier.

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