BY: Ofondu Pearl
BY: Ofondu Pearl
Affecting the delinquency, Discipline is another interrelated part of family relationship. Studies show that the Disturbed family relations play a very vital role in the rising delinquent nature of children. Sheldon and Glueck found that “4.1 percent of fathers were found to use sound discipline practices; 26.7 percent, fair; and 69.3 percent, unsound.” In order to internalize the controls adequately into a child’s personality it needs Consistency and persistence in discipline. To enable a child…
In a society without adults, children are likely to do unacceptable things. Without that supportive, influential guide they become more corrupt by following their own…
The youth of society tend to question and then possibly disregard the rules that are important to their parents if they do not have a good reason to believe in these rules. The rebellious actions of youth can eventually cause their own untimely destruction. (Justin K.)…
Teenage years are when one finally starts to establish himself as who he wants to be, and when what he wants to be is not an option, he begins to rebel. Parents think that by making sure that a child maintains a perfect GPA will assure them a happy life, but in reality life is much more complex than that. If a child is not very smart but tries hard and makes passing grades, he should be commended not ostracized because he is not a “genius.” Yet there's another side of parenting that can be just as bad, the side that is a cheerleader for their child. The parents that believe their child can do no wrong and never punish him. When a child is not punished, he begins to believe he can do anything he wants without any repercussion, with no sense of right or wrong, the child can easily become a degenerate.…
In today’s society kids are learning at younger ages and are well ahead of the past generations. Kids are becoming more mature at younger ages and they are engage in activities that no normal child should engage in. Parental guidance and preventive measures are key factors when dealing with today’s youth population. Most youth are lacking parental guidance which to me is the major problem in juvenile delinquency.…
The first and biggest problem in today’s children is that they are getting spoiled beyond belief. When kids are spoiled the way they are being spoiled today it sets them up to fail in their future lives. Brenda Scottsdale a licensed psychologist and author for livestrong.com states, “Spoiling your children can be harmful to them both socially and developmentally. Since children who are spoiled often do not have to learn to solve their own problems, they can lack the life skills necessary to successfully negotiate the demands of adulthood.” When it comes time for these children to manage their money and make financial decisions in their own life they will struggle and rely on their parents to bail them out as they have done repeatedly in the past. In their adult years, lacking these skills makes these people lazy, angry, and unhappy with themselves. The second root cause in poorly acting children today is being neglected or lacking a positive role model at home. According to Hannah Richardson, a BBC education reporter, “When teachers were asked about the root cause of poor behaviour, three quarters blamed a lack of positive role models at home.” When children don’t have a structured upbringing with discipline in place, they struggle to make the right decisions in life that would keep them out of trouble. There was a study that suggested forty-two percent of students causing trouble today have been…
There are around 21.5 million young athletes between the ages of 6-17 that play in organized youth sports (Kelley 34). Numerous children participate in sports with the help of external forces, for example: parents, coaches, peers, and more. This investment can impact adolescents’ health in a positive or negative way (Hyman 119). Receiving help can be a wonderful gift, but people’s selfish pride can ruin sports for adolescents. Youths are powerless against outside help because it is usually given by adults who are considered more “wiser.” This can cause children to stop playing sports all together as they mature because of the trauma they may receive at such a young age. It is important to examine this issue because this is a problem that…
Have you ever been to a sports tournament or meet where the parent is screaming at the top of their lungs at their child or the coach? We all have, right? Thirty seven percent of kids said they don't want any parents watching them play for this reason.There are so many sports parents like that and you can't seem to get away from it. Are these parents actually helping their kid succeed, or are they ruining sports for their children? There are pros, and cons to parents like this and the effects can have very different outcomes.…
The concept of youth disorder has been examined and studied in detail and length, describing as well as exploring the extent and depth of the nature of construct. The existing definitions of youth disorder vary with the complexities of characterizations and classifications that have been attach to the concept (Gotfredson, 2001). The concept falls opposite of the word conformity in which any contradiction for the set social expectations is viewed negatively by the majority. According to Taylor, Walton and Young (1988), youth disorder is “that which is reacted against – by, and on behalf of, the majority of (right-minded) men”.…
A major cause of this societal decline is that there has been a failure to enforce disciplinary measures. Children who are disciplined grow up with a better sense of what is right and wrong, and eventually they will grow up to respect authority and rules. However, children who are not disciplined will grow up with no real respect for authority or what is right and wrong. Following rules is important at school and kids who have received discipline at home as toddlers are willing to follow school rules and understand the repercussions if they don’t. Bennett notes that back in 1940, a teacher’s biggest problem with students would have been something as minor and insignificant as “talking out of turn” or chewing gum in class. In today’s society, there are much bigger issues at hand in America’s school systems: teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, rape, and assault. Why is it that children see these things as permissible behavior? It is because those individuals who have no respect for authority frequently break the rules. They are accustomed to causing trouble and end up with all kinds of problems as a result. This could be problems with the police, problems maintaining employment, and more. Many children…
These daily arguments and the peer pressure to go against the laws that are set by the families or authorities cause the teens to have aggressive behaviour, use drugs or consume alcohol which leads to many more criminal activities. Many people in the society treat and tend to label teens in general due to their previous assumptions or their bad experiences. Similarly, in the article ‘Stealing a Bag of Potato Chips and Other Crimes of Resistance’ the shopkeeper also treated Mike like that resulting in Mike stealing the potato chips to be rebellious. “…in the boys’ accounts, they knew they were facing severe consequences but decided to break the rules to make a point.” (Rios, 2012, pg. 53) Another example, in the course textbook, there is an article named ‘Bloody Saturday: The Breaking of the Winnipeg general strike by the RCMP, June 21, 1919’ about labour workers demanding to bargain for improved wages and better working conditions, which led to a strike of 30,000 workers resulting in many arrest and many injuries since the government did not support them. (Griffiths, 2011,…
While we have discovered possible causes that the adolescents act in the manner they do, it is important to investigate further on how to prevent adolescents from going down this lonely, dark path. In the culture today both parents are forced to join the workforce leaving teenagers without proper supervision. When the parents are home they are too tired, and overworked to maintain proper supervision. In determining what would save adolescents from the life of crime or long-term problems, much attention must be focused not only by the parent, but the community as a whole.…
Possible Impact: Without guidance from parents or carers, most children do not learn the correct ways to behave. This can cause them to come into conflict at school or unexpected situations because they do not know or understand acceptable boundaries. They may believe that they are allowed to act any way they want because they are never prevented or taught any acceptable moral behaviour. These lacks of boundaries could result in them becoming involved in crime and anti-social behaviour.…
In today’s society, the development of adolescence is a significant matter. In previous generations, self-discipline and strict obedience was critical; “The style of parenting practiced in the past was seen as critical to provide children with the self-discipline required by societies in which strict obedience to authority was expected from citizens,” (Holloway, 2003, p.314). Authoritarian parenting style was the most common. According to Holloway, 2003, the parenting style is highly influential to an adolescent’s behaviour, in the new generation. There are three basic styles of parenting; authoritative, authoritarian and permissive style. These styles have positive and negative aspects. Authoritative parenting is viewed to be a well-balanced style, “characterized by warmth, support, acceptance, and indirect positive control of the children,” (Holloway, 2003, p.321). However, authoritarian style is more parental control and uses punishments. It is still a common form of parenting used in today’s generation. It is distinguished by harsh discipline, rigidity, and perfectionism, which rather continues to affect the children adversely. In contrast, permissive parenting is a very negligent style. The parents do not take a big role in the child’s life. Children raised by permissive parents tend to be more irresponsible, impulsive, and immature. All of these three parenting styles may have negative impacts on adolescence, and “they can all cause problematic behaviours,” (Ambert, 2007). Of the three styles, authoritarian parenting is the most ineffective method of child rearing because it creates problematic behaviours such as rebellion, aggression, and low self-esteem in adolescents.…
Discipline is the end reaction, or result, of conflicts. Discipline is a huge part of a child’s conflicts because it lets them know between right and wrong. To be able to truly move to adulthood, one must learn the differences between good and bad as Scheer, Gavazzi, and Blumenkrantz further clarify in their article, Rites of Passage During Adolescence, how “Various academic disciplines have emphasized differently the impact of social context variables on adolescent development into adulthood” (Scheer, Gavazzi, and Blumenkrantz 1). As Scheer, Gavazzi, and Blumenkrantz depicted, discipline has a huge effect on sociality while transitioning into adulthood, just some types of discipline more than others. As a result of discipline being the effect of conflicts, a child’s social abilities is affected by the types of it given to a child. This is how a child is taught to move from innocent childhood to…