Memoir: In the Country We Love

Memoir: In the Country We Love

I was born to Colombian immigrant parents who struggled hard to remedy their situation. At the age of 14, I arrived home to find a stampede that there was the deportation of my parents. Fear, shame and instability took on course after this. I found refuge in the performing arts where a family friend introduced me, a situation that increased the distance to my parents’ relationship.  Later on, I finished my education at Boston Arts academy. There were severe financial and mental obstacles in our family. I once had to seek a therapist help after succumbing to depression, where I became alcoholism, injuring myself and nearly committed suicide.

My situation can be replicated into acceptance and respect, ethnic and cultural differences and generation gaps diversity issues. Love to me appeared to be poignant, and a shocking challenge in my childhood after my parents’ deportation. It is a situation that accustoms me sometimes to yelling in my mother’s name after waking up. It is rare to hear kids left behind by their parents in their immigration speak out. The authorities had chosen to detain my parents, leaving me a young girl, a minor and a citizen of a country without a family, a home, and a way to move forward. It was hard for me to share my story because of the fear of others’ perceptions and the possible repercussions. At times, I would give responses that my parents were dead or lived abroad when interrogated by teachers, friends or interviewers.

It is, of course, essential to be empathic with this character. It is a painful situation of a child coming from school only to find that her parents are not there a without a clue of their whereabouts. It is irritating, mind-blowing and horrible to a child. I do not, therefore, find any reason to be empathic with this character. However, it is of privilege that the actor managed to overcome struggles and would make it in life and her aspired right girl image came to be.  It happened after the anxiety and hurt of living sipped into her life. She appreciated the families that adopted her and would show an appreciation for staying with her. It is good that she avoided disappointing anybody who helped her on the way through all finance and education struggles.

A qualitative study has been of help to this character. Here, the character’s perceptions gave vigour to soldier on in life despite many challenges. The advocacy for counselling is a decision that the character took on after having been inducted to alcoholism. It is also one of my strategies that have helped many victims. Caregiver support program also helped the role to meet her life goals from the refuge her friend gave her. Initiating educational programs is vital to many vulnerable children. A mental health service helped her regain her state from the confusion she had. State agencies should administer child protective services.

I concede and advocate for treatment and intervention solutions to child maltreatment and all forms of family violence, which are some of the helpful strategies. Families should focus on the risk and protective factors of violence in their social environment. Thus, my values cannot hinder me in working with a character like the character. Social isolation, mental health disorders and the best child-rearing abilities should all be adopted to prevent resultant societal problems. They are all resultant to the kind of child behaviours.