Adultification: The Devastating Costs on Wellbeing & Future #shorts
So the cost can be their lives unfortunately and the cost can be mental health. What is the cost emotionally, spiritually, psychologically, physically of our justification? Yeah, again another massive massive question and I think I think it’s important to stress again that I I can’t give a blanket answer for everybody because again the difference and the uniqueness of every person contributes to that answer. So the cost might look very different for you and I but the blanket uh sort of consensus would be that again we’ve missed the opportunity to identify their needs in a timely manner. We have missed the opportunity to connect with a young person and provide that sense of care provide that sense of their needs being met because actually children have these rights. It’s an inherent right. It’s not any for any child or young person to feel the need to earn that from adults around them. So all of these things if adults have the same rights, children more so who need the advocating, who need the help to self-regulate, who need the help to model what does relationship look like in society. All these things are things that are impacted by our childhood and our youth experiences. And if there’s professionals that feed into the traumas we have or retraumatize us, we’re further doing damage whether that’s physiologically. So trauma does a lot of damage with that. If you look at scientific and research findings, trauma doesn’t just affect like the the emotions or someone’s physical behavior. It’s very internal. It also another cost that’s really big is it can increase the chance or likelihood of um indulging in um again behaviors that professionals would class as risky or dangerous or that need safeguarding. But actually, this is advice that helps someone cope. It’s advice that helps someone alleviate some of the pain that they experience emotionally. It’s advice that helps someone to feel like, okay, someone is going to accept me somewhere. And if this is what I have to do to join this group of people that are saying that they love me and saying that they’re going to be there for me when I’ve had no one else there for me, then that’s what I’m going to do. So, the cost can be their lives, unfortunately, and the cost can be mental health. the cost can be their future prospects because some people choose things that have done them a disadvantage when they’re an adult now seeking employment or now wanting to progress their life but because of something that was done in their youth they now don’t have that chance. So a lot of these things have massive costs for
The unseen price of adultification: mental health, risky behavior, and lost futures. How does forcing maturity rob children of their inherent rights and needs? Discover the deep costs. “The cost can be their lives…” #Adultification #ChildhoodTrauma #MentalHealth #YouthRights #CopingMechanisms
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