The Struggles of Marginalized Children and Adolescents

There are many similarities between adolescents, marginalized children, and those that are left with no hope at the end of their life. Marginalized children are those exposed to a drama in their life that's not appropriate for their age to understand, those who have been exposed to the drama of divorce, adoption, molestation, war, violence, a fundamental church, or a toxic family. Your response is dependent on your age, your kind of exposure, and the length of time of being exposed to this drama in your life. It will determine the struggles you will have with life. Some families are only living out their history rather than meeting your needs as a child.Parents may be only responding to their history and to their family's priority of values rather than playing a public role that meets the needs of the children under their care. All of us are in struggle to bring our private life under control. We share our struggles in common with all other humans. The struggle is to bring ourselves under control in a chosen community. Many struggles in life can be experienced as being similar for all adolescents to emancipate from their families to bring our public role together with our private desires in life. To bring integrity together to a lived life and experience wholeness to life, we will need a safe community that does not judge us but will help us process safely the events in our life. We will need a Creator in our life and a priority of values that are lived. Experiences of life can either make you stronger or set you up for self-destruction. You will need hope for the future. Welcome to the world of the struggle. The struggle to make a lived life that has integrity and experience the wholeness of a life lived.

-- Robert Wurm