Reflection

The respondents answers to the question "How long do you keep secrets from your friends about your family life?" was what I was expecting. The vast majority said they wait until they've gotten to know someone. This makes sense because people in my opinion usually wait to tell someone what is going on in their family because they are scared that people will think wrong of their family if they tell them what's going on and also the fear that the person that they told will and tell someone who can actually do something about it and the person will confront the person who is abusing them and that the person who abused them either keep abusing them because something wasn't done or either kill them because their wasn't enough evidence to prove that they were abusing them.

Recommendations

The next questions to be research Are do your parent suffer from a mental illness if so do they ever abuse you because of it? and Do you ever feel the need to protect your younger or older siblings? I think you should look for questions that most people wouldn't look for. Projects that have to do on our studies. Things that relate to what we are doing right now. Yes kids from different schools should take these surveys. People should be more open but not to everyone because you can't trust to many people an adult would be someone to talk to. Tell some who you trust to help if some is abusing you because they can talk to you abou and if itgets to the point where it real bad then they can do something about it.

Conclusion

How well do your parents take care of you?

The percentage of this was good most were saying that there parents were taking good care of but I feel bad for the the ones who's parents don't because they are going through a lot probably so I that this was good information for my project thank for answering my questions.

For my survey 32% were Male and 64% Female, Race 40% were Black,40% were White,2% were Asian ,2% were Latino, 7% were Mixed, and 5% were Other, and they are 9th graders.

Research Summary

My summary talks about kids who deal with parents who are mentally ill. In one story the article talked about a mom who was always angry one time she was so angry that she threw pots and pans around because she was mad. Another thing it talked about was a girl who was never rude to anyone. In other words she wouldn't lash out on anyone because she was scared that she would end up like her mom. Her mother was ill, and she didn't want to be that way. I got this information from When Madness Comes Home Help and Hope for Families of the Mentally Ill this book was made by Victoria Secunda.

Secunda, Victoria. When Madness Comes Home: Help and Hope for Families of the Mentally Ill. New York: Hyperion, 1998. Print.

Research Question

How do teenagers deal with a parent who struggles with mental health, especially, if these mental health issues lead to abuse? How does this affect teenager's ability to trust?

How does being abused affect your trust with people, even if you didnt know them before it happened?

This topic interest me because some people been through a lot and don't want to get hurt again. Things I know aleady my friend has been through a lot and she chooses not to get close to people becuause she doesn't want to be hurt again. I want to learn if this is the way all people react.