Every year reports show that nearly thirty percent of nursing home facilities have been cited for abuse and neglect of their patients. Nursing homes are very convenient for families that cannot properly care for there loved ones, there isn’t a firm way for them to be sure that their family members won’t be mistreated. The elderly are usually placed in these care facilities mainly because both the residents themselves and their families can no longer care for them; this makes them vulnerable to abuse and neglect. Abuse in this situation includes death, malnutrition, isolation, mental and physical abuse, and insufficient medical attention. In most cases the elder abuse has put residents in serious danger sometimes to a point where it becomes life threatening. Unsurprisingly, many abuse cases go unreported for fear that care takers will do more harm than before. Some argue that workers are stressed because of a shortage of staff and mandatory overtime. Regardless of conditions there is really no excuse for harming people that they are entrusted to look after.
As hundreds of kids enter high school each year almost every one of them is faced with peer pressure. All any of them is concerned about is fitting in. Teens feel pressured into following the crowd and becoming just like others in order to be accepted. Peer pressure can come in many forms such as drinking, drugs, stealing amongst other things putting their health or reputation on the line. Giving in to pressure is mostly caused by lack of confidence or isolation; naturally teens feel that social acceptance must have some catch to it, which causes them to engage in risky behaviors. Many often fall into the wrong crowd and change their personality just to click with others, while others risk themselves under the impression they will make friends only to be ridiculed. No one should feel that they have to do something they don’t want to in order to be liked.
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