First, based upon the three assigned scholarly journals, depression was identified as a highly prevalent within the African-American community. The factors that were stated to attribute to these findings are families that fall within the low-income earning bracket, the initial transition to parenthood, living arraignments for toddlers with the first three to four months of life, child rearing, and lowly educated parents found in the African-American community.
Next, low-income earnings and poorly educated parents were found to be contributing factors to depressive symptoms for African-American families. According to Cooper, “traditional sociodemographic risk factoid for depression—having young children, inner city residence, low-income, and low education, for example—are ubiquitous among poor mothers, and depression frequently remains undetected or inadequately treated in this group (Cooper et al, 2003)”.
Additionally, the transition into parenthood is also considered to be a major contributing factor to depression for first time African-American parents. According to Cowan and Cowan, “becoming a parent is considered one of the most demanding and stressful life transitions in an individual will face, often giving rise to symptoms of depression (Cowan & Cowan, 2006)”. This phenomenon is further warranted by The National Institute of Mental Health. According to this institution, “50-80% of women experience postpartum blues, sadness, anger, or anxiety after giving birth that can last for months (National Institute of Mental Health, 2005)”. What is more distressing is the findings of a study conducted by Matthey, Barnett, Ungerer, and Waters. According to their studies, the authors uncovered two startling trends. The first trend was that “physiological distress across the transition to parenthood has the potential to impair the individual while presenting additional risk to the individual’s partner and their relationship, parenting behaviors, and child outcomes”.
Additionally, the same authors also found that preexisting factors are also present for individuals whom find themselves at risk of depression. According to Perren, von Wyl, Burgin, Simoni, & von Klitzing, “among the risk factors for post partum depressive symptoms are preexisting levels of distress, a low level of spousal support (O’hara & Swain, 1996: Simpson, Rhodes, Campbell, Tran & Wilson, 2003), relationship dissatisfaction, infant temperament (Maxted et al., 2005), stressful life events, and personality (i.e. neuroticism; Matthey et al., 2000).
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I kind of wrote about the same thing you chose, but i think my articles were a little less informative. I think the amount of facts that you have are very impressive and i agree with a lot of the statistics, but i think your opinion would come in handy here. They are a lot of facts and statistics, but do you agree with them? Do you think that these things are true, or that they might be slightly exaggerated ideas? Also, you have the authors and who did the quotes, which is great, but i would love to know what articles they came from, which was your favorite, and if they helped you better understand depression and woman who experience it.
Your paper is really informative which is good. But i think you should give it a little flair so that it doesnt get boring. Other than that the way you laid it out was good.I also noticed that you used the word additionally twice i think you should change one of them into a different transitional word. Good luck with your paper!!
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I think you should use more statistics that relate to readers' lives. Also, I agree with Michelle that you should add a little flair to make sure it doesn't get boring. I like that you included neuroticism and a couple other disorders as examples of why some women suffer from post-partum depression; maybe you could explain why.
I love your topic! This area is of particular interest to me. I think you are on the right track. Be careful to organize your paper so that the reader can follow your train of thought and see the point you are trying to make. Also, make sure your thesis is clear and concise. But other then that, great job, seems like you are on the right track!
I think your draft was well written. Although i found some grammatical errors. I think if you just read over the paper again, you can develop a keen sense on what needs to be fixed. I think you made many very well states points that can be backed up by facts, i thought that you did that very well. I did see many repetitive words, i think those sentences could be better composed. . Good job!
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