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Essay on The Ways in which war Affects Children/Adults
In any war, children are victims. They can experience war openly with the loss of a parent, a sibling, a teacher. They can be kidnapped, forced to fight alongside adults and sometimes forced to kill. War can destroy their homes, their families and their way of life in a thousand different ways. Some scars you can see, others are psychological, spiritual and emotional. Even if relatively few children experience the violence and chaos of war directly, many others witness the killings, the amputations and the social destruction as it takes place around them.
If people watch daily news coverage of war-like events, it can affect them more than watching a terrifying horror movie over and over. Don't underestimate the emotional impact that news coverage of terror and war can have on adults, children and families alike. Most Americans know that a traumatic event, such as 9/11, can take an emotional toll on the family. But people need to realize that it doesn't have to be a traumatic event to produce unhealthy responses. News coverage, and especially repetitive coverage of terrorist alerts, war, hostages and violence, can have an effect on family life.
The disturbing impact of news reporting on children or adults is not always that obvious. To look for signs of suffering connected to sleep habits, for example changes in bedtime or schedule, and sleep patterns. If a child begins to want to sleep with the light on, consider the media images the child is exposed to. "Adults in addition can experience the same symptoms. In fact, every now and then adults are not even aware that they have been affected by media coverage, and unless they start to think about it, they may not be aware of what tainted. Adults decide to knob appalling media images different ways.......
