Cultural Approach Six to Ten
Consequences of Physical Abuse
The cultural significance of this age is that children incorporate the values and beliefs of their families and transmit this first-hand knowledge to the community in which they reside. Their ethnic sense of belonging to the concentrated family group gives them confidence and self-assurance. They imitate and model aspects of familiar intimacy and family traditions. Family ties and family history are of interest to elementary age children because they give them "roots" and security associated with the home environment.
Cultural repercussions caused by modern day social and moral family lifestyle phenomena greatly affect the school-age child. Multiple caregivers, changing school and home environments, parental-marital and professional-career status, and societal trends such as drugs, sexual activity at earlier ages, nuclear energy, war, waste and pollution, unemployment, minority discrimination, and vast technological and media changes all contribute to various degrees to the cultural and intellectual capacity of the child to develop and behave.
Consequences of these alienation syndromes appear to cause even the youngest school-age children to develop deficits and deficiencies associated with adaptive development. Sleeping and eating disorders as well as attention-deficit disorders are being increasingly observed and diagnosed in the 6-10 age group. Drug use and overt sexual activity, which, in previous generations, were transmitted to adolescents and youth are now observed and diagnosed in 6-10 year old children.
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