Just the past weekend my daughter experienced racism. She was invited to birthday party of a friend that is a different race from hers.I always tell my children treat everyone the same no matter what race they are.My daughter had been excited about the party from the day she recieved the invitation.
   She went to the party but she was the only young lady there of here race which that didnot matter to my daughter because she went because there and the party girl was friend. While she was sitting alone waitng to see the young lady that was having the party to young ladies passed the table where she was sitting and as they passed she said one of them made a racist remark about her.My daughter got very upset because she was shocked to see racism still exist.
                                    Racism in Brazil
  To be brazilian has always been believed to mean more than mere nationality.Breazilians like to define themselves as a real race.Brazilian is a mixture of the races such as african,indian,and white. The most completed scientific journalistics study about racism in brazil was conducted last year.89% of  brazilians said they believe there is racismin their society and 10% they were prejudiced.
  

CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH

   I chose Mental Health of mothers, fathers, and families in general. The topic is meaningful to me because wanting to be a professional you never know what type of issues that a child and his or her family maybe dealing with. It is very important to me that Iam made aware of changes and issues that occur in children life.I want to be able to know the different behavior in a child and their family so I can help them. I know someone close to me that was diagnosed with depression at the age of fifteen and it was very hard for the family.
    I found information at http://www.menshealthaustrialia.net/. A study was conducted in Britian found that 21% of fathers and 39%  of mothers expereinced a period of depression by the time their child was twelve years old. Depression is most common among parents of babies,their is 13% in mothers and 3% of fathers becoming depressed by the time their child reached its first birthday.Divorced men are three times likely to committ suicide than any others. Suicide rates follows high for ages 30-34 and then ages 40-49. Married have the lowest sucide rate.
   I have learned that is is very important to be aware of the signs of depression and or suicide, It is very important to communicate with parents and caregivers, It would be helpful for parents with teenagers to have resources available,just in case you know a teenager in trouble or your own teenager.