Stress comes in many forms, from hunger and poverty to noise and chaos. My husband has shared with me forms of stress that polluted his childhood. As a child of divorces he remembers plenty of noisy fighting and getting packed up in the middle of the night to stay at Grandma's - chaos. He withdrew as a child and started doing poorly in school because he said, "he just didn't care". As a result of his childhood he struggled through life resenting his parents. When he finally was able to leave the house for college the freedom was too much to handle and he failed out. He keeps his emotions and feelings guarded and has a difficult time trusting. Somehow he allowed me to love him and has been a wonderful husband and father. All it took was patients,understanding and showing him that I would love him unconditionally.
Children in Africa face very different stressors. Hunger, poverty, disease, violence, and isolation. Riddled with AIDS many children are left on their own when their parents are taken by the disease. Relief workers and missionaries volunteer their time and efforts to help these children left behind but the numbers are overwhelming. We are so blessed in this country to have the resources to help those less fortunate, yet children go hungry here everyday. Hunger is a problem that can be found in every country the world wide.
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