Urban Education

There are many factors that contributes to the youth in urban areas of the Unites States of America that can potentially limit their chances of achieving a healthy and successful life as an adult. Children who lives in urban areas are more likely to experience negative life events, and poverty; which is linked to behavioral and emotional problems that can affect a child school achievement. Children that are raised in urban areas are subject to experience neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. Neglect and sexual abuse has been an ongoing issue not only in urban areas but amongst rural areas, as well. The primary discrepancy in regards to neglect is some parents lacks the ability to identify neglect due to lack of education in regards to
Young men that are raised in the urban community are often left to be the head of the household, and sole provider. Women in urban communities are often left to raise children as single parents and in order to attempt to provide for their children they get on public assistance, seek irregular employment, or fall subject to engaging in criminal activity such as sexual exploitation. Parents that receive public assistance has been subject to use that source of income as a temporary threshold; while others use it as a primary source to provide for their families which leaves them to be idled majority of the month until the next disbursement is due to accommodate their needs. Individuals that spend majority of their time idled are subject to in nonconventional role modeling such as alcoholism, drug use and frequenting unhealthy environments. These such conditions influence crime, and disadvantage the children that are being raised in such environments. During this research issues concerning the disadvantage of the males, and youth of urban areas will be discussed by comparing studies conducted in regards to crime levels, the influence of crime rates, and community instability.
It is imperative to gain understanding of what contributes to cycle of crime