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      Racism and Adverse Childhood Experience: Racism and Adverse Childhood Experience: challenges of motherhood in bringing up children with mixed parentage :   Racism and Adverse Childhood Experience: challenges of motherhood in bringing up children with mixed parentage

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            MMotherhood is the highest achievement in the reproductive cycle of a woman hence, the most demanding milestone in a woman's life. It is the most hournarable status any woman could achieve irrespective of her caste creed and breed. However, it was not easier to bring up mixed-race kids, especially in a country where there was a 30-year-old civil war. Even in a developed country racism is prevailing where there is discrimination based on skin color. Adverse childhood experience (ACE) due to racial discrimination is prevalent in vulnerable individuals belonging to minority communities both in high and low-income countries. Cumulative ACEs emerge as predictors of cascading life course problems such as academic failures, and sub-optimal socio-emotional behaviors. Perhaps, post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD) marks the most devastating outcome of a neglected child who suffered from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Furthermore, PSTD leads to mental illnesses and negative impact on the overall quality of life of the affected and the immediate family members.Thus ethnic conflicts and racism could be causes for PSD among children and adolescents belonging to mixed parentage. It is of prime importance for government and non-governmental organizations to ease the burden of motherhood by investing and building the capacity of community workers and clergy to assist, affected children by guiding them in resilience development and building up cope up skills. There is a paucity of information on the adverse childhood experience of racial discrimination referring to depressive symptoms in school children leading to burdened motherhood of minority or mixed parentage. Against this backdrop, this communication attempts to unite mothers and encourage them to seek assistance in reducing the burden of challenges of bringing up children of mixed parentage affected by the negative impact of racism. Moreover, Psychologists and Sociologists to conduct in-depth studies in this important arena of research as there is a paucity of information on this sensitive aspect of the anthropologic profile of Homo sapiens representing ethnic minorities .

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            ScienceOpen
            3 August 2023
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            [1 ] Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia ( https://ror.org/02sc3r913)
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            https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7275-2736
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            10.14293/PR2199.000282.v1
            096b99b0-42ee-4383-b681-ced533416e14

            This work has been published open access under Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0 , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Conditions, terms of use and publishing policy can be found at www.scienceopen.com .

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            : 3 August 2023
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            The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
            Social & Behavioral Sciences
            Adverse Childhood Experiences, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Racial discrimination, Racial socialization, Motherhood

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