ALL of the requirements are contained in the attached document. Respond to the colleagues with a comparison of how adultism and ageism affects the Logan and Parker families. In your comparison, draw s

Respond to the colleagues with a comparison of how adultism and ageism affects the Logan and Parker families. In your comparison, draw specifically on your colleagues' analysis with any further details that support or critique your colleagues' posts. Also, be sure to provide specific examples related to both the Logan and Parker families. Provide at least 2 references for each Colleague response. You can use the colleague’s reference.

Support your response with specific references to the resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.

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Colleague AI:

Ageism is stereotyping and discriminating against a person’s age, old or young, according to the World Health Organization (2019). Adultism is the power an older adult or figure of power has over a child. There are many times when ageism and adultism are present in today’s society. I have faced it and I’m sure anyone newly out of college has faced it. In the Logan’s case study I found that there were signs of adultism. The first example of adultism is when Eboni’s mother and grandmother made Eboni feel bad because she was going to have a different life than the one they had planned on for her. They were forcing their opinion, wants, and harmful words on her to do what they thought was best, not her. The mother told her she should have an abortion, not allowing Eboni to make her own decision. Her father was also upset “shaking his head back and forth” and saying she should move in with him and her stepmom. To make her situation harder her mother held power over her by not talking to her for more than a week after the initial conversation. When both Darlene and Eboni came to see the social worker together Darlene played the card of “she knows best” because she’s been in this position before automatically assuming that Eboni couldn’t handle it nor have autonomy. 

Gender, race, class, and privilege played into the Logan family’s case. Because Eboni is from the lower class, not making a lot of money to support the child I could see where the mother is coming from when she said she doesn’t have the means to raise it. It sounds like Eboni is a smart and successful young lady who had her path figured out and her mother didn’t want to take away that privilege. Race could be a factor in adultism because statistically more black adolescents have teen pregnancies than white, according to the Department of Health and Human Services (2017). The concept may make her think that her daughter is part of the statistic, let alone to a class that may be lower class instead of the middle class. ADultism has everything to do with adults telling children what to do from life experiences, environmental factors, and social influences. Adultism can happen regardless if it derives from power or from the heart. 

Resources

Trends in Teen Pregnancy and Childbearing (2017). In U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved from https://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/adolescent-development/reproductive-health-and-teen-pregnancy/teen-pregnancy-and-childbearing/trends/index.html

Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., & Brocksen S. M. (Eds.). (2014). Sessions: Case histories. Baltimore, MD: Laureate International Universities Publishing. [Vital Source e-reader].

Colleague KP:

The word adultism refers to behaviors and attitudes based on the assumption that adults are better than young people (Adams (2018). I think that there is an influence of adultism in the Logan case. Darlene is the mother of Eboni. When she learned of the pregnancy she yelled and called Eboni a slut. Each family member thought Eboni should do something different with her unborn child. Ebonies father’s attitude was that she had to have the child because abortion was known to be a sin. He told her that if she had an abortion that she would go to hell. Her father also told a priest without her permission that she was pregnant. Eboni’s mother said that she was so young that she should do as she says.

Gender, race, class, and privilege interact with adultism to influence the family’s discourse to Ebony’s family dynamics. Her mother has stereotyped her daughter as being a pregnant teen with a dead-end future. Ebonies mother is a single bi-racial black female/Caucasian who has lived in the same household since Eboni was born. This family has not been privileged. The boyfriend even said that he cannot provide for Eboni and the child. The mother got pregnant with Eboni at a young age, so her attitude is that she does not want her daughter to go through what she went through. I don’t think the mom thinks that she is better than Eboni. When she heard of the pregnancy it was like Deja vu for her. She had worked hard for her daughter to have what she did not, but she ended up pregnant. I think that maybe she called her daughter a slut because she may have felt that way about herself when she got pregnant.

References

Adams, M., Blumenfeld, W. J., Castaneda, C., Hackman, H. W., Peters, M. L., & Zuniga, X. (Eds.). (2018). Readings for diversity and social justice. (4th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge Press.

Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., & Brocksen S. M. (Eds.). (2014). Sessions: Case histories. Baltimore, MD: Laureate International Universities Publishing. [Vital Source e-reader].

Colleague JD:

As adolescents we go through many stages of development, and in each stage we need support from our parents to adjust properly.  According to Adams et. al. (2018) Adultism, is the systematic mistreatment and disrespect of young people.  Referencing the Logan case, Darlene, Eboni's mother had yelled and called her daughter a "slut" regarding her pregnancy at the age of 16.  I will point out that her mother had known her father for only a month at the young age of 17, and became pregnant going on to keep Eboni and raising her as a single parent.  Darlene disrespected her daughter by yelling at her and calling her names for the same thing that she had done at her age.  Darlene felt that Eboni should have an abortion, when at the same age faced with the same decision, Darlene decided to keep her child.  

There are multiple types of physical and verbal punishments which occur during adultism.  In the case of the Logan family, Darlene portrays verbal punishments by yelling at Eboni.  I would go so far as to say that even not talking to her daughter is a form of punishment.  Relating to Eboni, Darlene treats her as a young girl of mixed race wanting only what is best for her.  This form of classism plays a negative influence on the families discourse.  Saying that Darlene knows how hard it is to be a single mother would place Eboni at a disadvantage.  

Adams, M., Blumenfeld, W. J., Castaneda, C., Catalano, D. C. J., DeJong, K., Hackman, H. W,... Zuniga, X. (Eds.). (2018). Readings for diversity and social justice (4th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge Press.