In many countries there has been an increase in social problems involving teenagers in recent years. Many people believe that this is due to modern lifestyles because parents spend more and more time at work and have less time to supervise their children. To what extent do you believe this is true? There is no question that standards of behaviour have fallen among teenagers. The popular belief is that the principle cause is that parents are unable to supervise
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Protective factors are those associated with reduced potential for drug use and risk factors are those that make drug use more likely. The main principles have to be considered: programs should enhance protective factors and reverse or reduce risk factors. Protective factors should include strong and positive family bonds‚ monitoring of children and peer’s activities‚ clear rules of conduct within the family‚ involvement between children and parents‚ success in school performance‚ strong bonds in
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FACTORS LEADING TO SOCIAL ILLS AMONG TEENAGERS eenagers nowadays are very different with teenagers before then. Today‚teenagers are getting wilder and tend to have more fun than they should.Rotten teenagers smoked‚ drink alcohols before they reach maturity‚ goclubbing and partying‚ have sex before marriage‚ involved in drugs‚ and a lotmore unhealthy activities that are not only useless and wasting their time butare also affecting their health. T When asked‚ why do teenagers love this kind of
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opinion on youth gangs is the same as I view planting a seed. If you plant a seed in bad soil most likely you’ll grow a defected or bad plant. I say that to say this “if a child is raised in an unstructured household most of the time that child will take his home training outside the home. Then we also have our young kids joining gangs that come from good homes‚ but can’t escape their negative environments once they walk outside their front door. Also some of the youths get involved in gangs looking for
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BananaStock/BananaStock/Getty Images Many teenagers get high from abusing substances which range from diverted prescription drugs to street drugs to inhalants to alcohol. Some of these teens will go on to a life of addiction‚ abusing increasingly dangerous substances. Some teens will have more short-lived experience‚ as abusing a drug or other substance even one time can be fatal. Parents and interested adults should examine the factors that lead teenagers to abuse substances in an effort to prevent
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the picture about the media perception of gangs in our society. According to the author the term gang is usually associated with crime and violence by the media which has made not only youth male‚ but also working class individuals victims of media stereotyping. He is trying to point out the fact that the media is actually painting a bad picture and only covers the bad side of the gangs. He is also trying to attack the press and convince the reader that gangs are not all that bad and they are necessary
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Television has a bad influence on teenagers. Do you agree? Television has become an integral part of homes in the modern world that it is hard to imagine life without television. It provides entertainment to people of all ages especially children. Not only children but teenagers also love to watch television and prefer to stay ‘glued’ to the TV screen all day‚ rather than socializing or doing some outdoor physical activities. It has been known that teenagers watch a lot of television. A recent research
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learned the value of the delinquent subculture through participation in gangs. Delinquent subcultures have values that are in opposition to those of the dominant culture. The strain is rooted by low economical conditions‚ poor parental relations‚ and low school standards‚ with no chance of succeeding in the future. The anti social structure of cities also affects the why a boy and or girl joins a gang. The formation of gangs in cities‚ and most recently in suburbs‚ is assisted by the same lack of
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Gangs About seventy five percent of the United States of America’s crime rate comes from gang activity. In this project i have researched gangs and how they affect schools‚ communities and kids. I also have researched who started gangs ;why they started them and when .To find out more about gangs and the effect of them keep reading. Gangs started in the early nineteen sixties‚ at first they were not gangs though they were clubs like black panther and etc. The first real street gangs started
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