That has never stopped
parents from exercising their right
to choice, and children are still murdered every year in the secrecy of the family home, or mysteriously found drowned in a car, or
beaten to death a dumped in the woods with the
parents claiming kidnapping.
There's also the fact that they are, after all, teenagers, and if a teenager isn't fantasizing about
beating one of his
parents to death with a metal stool, he's doing teenager - hood wrong.
Though not all refugee and asylum seeking children and adolescents are subjected
to these circumstances, experiences often claimed
to be encountered by them include the violent
death of a
parent, injury / torture towards a family member (s), witness of murder / massacre, terrorist attack (s), child - soldier activity, bombardments and shelling, detention,
beatings and / or physical injury, disability inflicted by violence, sexual assault, disappearance of family members / friends, witness of parental fear and panic, famine, forcible eviction, separation and forced migration (Burnett & Peel, 2001; Davies & Webb, 2000).