Comment on broken homes

Comment on ‘Broken homes damage brains of infant children’ – Megan Wibrow

The article ‘Broken homes damage brains of infant children’ is about how it is believed that that broken homes, different or dysfunctional family types can cause children to start school with the mental capacity of a one year old due to their brain have failed as they are not being able to develop properly.

I believe that children learn their language from imitation and social interaction from a very young age. Therefore an example of this is if a child receives poor socialisation from their parents then it will prevent the child from learning appropriate and relevant language and information. This is due to if the parents themselves have poor language, grammar and didn’t receive good education then they will not be able to teach their children a lot. Therefore this can lead to the child receiving a poor socialisation. This will result in them starting school at a different level to other children at a similar age.

However I also believe that broken homes, different or dysfunctional family types can cause children to have a different upbringing. However I do not believe that this happens in all cases as it does not necessarily lead to children having undeveloped brains. Just because a child may have a different upbringing does not set them up for their future to fail. This is because different family types doesn’t necessarily mean that the child will experience ‘physical and detrimental effects, whose brains failed to develop properly.’ The child can have other forms of support to help them be able to succeed.

In the article I found it surprising that from broken homes, children’s brain do not develop how it should in the first three years. To solve this, I believe that the government should introduce more programmes within nurseries and schools to provide extra support. This will help to ensure that these children can achieve similar levels to other children in their year who have not experienced these problems. However I found the article to be very repetitive and not taking in other opinions.

Therefore I believe language acquisition starts in the home but schools should provide extra support for children whose brains are less developed.