Adolescents Behavior

For centuries, teenagers have fought with their parents over the amount of freedom they should have. Parents always fight to reel in their child’s freedom, while teens argue that they need more privileges. While parents certainly have an argument in protecting their kids from the big, scary world, ultimately teenagers need to be exposed to the dangers of everyday life in order to prepare them for entering it on their own. If they have no real-life experience, they cannot be expected to handle it well when they leave their parents’ houses. In order to teach kids responsibility and life skills, kids should be allowed freedom to work and be out on their own, but have certain restrictions on a case-to-case basis in terms of curfews and household obligations.

As a child becomes a teenager they go from knowing right from wrong to having the ability to do more things without parental supervision. This kind of freedom without having someone to monitor your actions can lead to these young people doing things they

I just recently had the opportunity to read the magazine article from The Atlantic titled “The Overprotected Kid” by Hanna Rosin. This article constantly critiques and bashes society along with the parenting styles of today. I agree with Rosin that parents are too protective over their children because parents today are holding back their children and are preventing them from many experiences. Fortunately, my parents were not part of this trend, allowing me to explore and learn from my own experiences and mistakes. Playgrounds are becoming to a point that is almost too safe and children are taking less risks. Playgrounds and parents are not allowing kids to learn on their own and experience life while taking risks.

     Lifestyles also play an important part in youth violence. Growing up in a divorced family as well as the way your parents raised you are major aspects that effect youth today. When children go through a divorce they experience tremendous pain and go through a lot of changes in their life.(chapter 9 impact of divorce) They experience behavioral problems, and less academic achievements. Adolescents in this stage can also experience aggression toward their parents as well as their friends and other family members due to the divorce. Every parent had there own parenting styles of raising their kids, however, some ways can lead to corrupt behavior. There are the authoritative parents whose children tend to be moody, aggressive, and have poor communication skills. Then there are the permissive and authoritative parents who are generally caring and sensitive towards their children.(chapter 9 parenting styles) Studies have shown that if you grow up in a family that shows aggression towards one another, then it is more likely that you as a young adult will be aggressive as well. However in recent studies,

To begin with, I believe that children need security all for the safety and well-being of children. If we were given more freedom than security, kids would get a feeling of invincibility. Once they see that they have more freedom, most

Most of us want the freedom to decide how to live our own lives, but independence requires us to take personal responsibility for our actions. The freedom to make our own decisions can precede to us doing great things, but it can also beget poor decisions. Teenagers in particular have multiple decisions about high school, college, sports, and friends, to decide. I value that they are able to do so, but it can also be a challenge.

Youths have a high possibility of imitating who or what they see around them. In a family where the parents may not have achieved much, it might be difficult for the youths in that home to be inspired positively by anyone in the family. In this case, the youths tend to drop out of school, and due to lack of parental supervision or positivity around them, life tends to go downhill from that point.

The kind of environment a child grows up around or in has a great affect on their behavior. Human learning is somewhat a continuous reciprocal interaction of cognitive, behavioral, and what I stated early environmental factors. This type of learning is called observational learning, this is where the child observes and imitates the behavior of adults or other children around them. Another environment is the family environment, the stability of a household has a big affect on a child’s behavior. A child that has endured a parental separation, neglect, or has been abused in any way is where you can find these types of behavior. In many studies that are possing in today’s study set goals that test many different interactive involvements between themselves and their parental relationship quality. It is said that children with antisocial beliefs and bad attitudes show a different social contextual interaction with others. Showing more of aggression and delinquent behavior that brings a more

Throughout past decades, Western societies have witnessed the decline of nonchalant guardianship and the uprise of preventative relationships between parental figures and children starting at a young age. Nonetheless, there are drawbacks to this type of tutelage. While modern parenting idealizes protectiveness, the reality is that growing up overly sheltered can prevent adolescents from developing the skills they need to succeed as an adult as well as cause them to be reluctant to reach for new opportunities. During the interview, “Should parents let their kids take more risks?” Hanna Rosin illustrates the dangers of having apprehension surrounding your child. Coupled with professional hazards later in life, there are also simply moral risks too.

Kids don't have complete control over their lives, but they should be allowed to make some choices that influence events in their life. It will help them feel empowered and it will give them a sense of how important choices are in life. It will also help them understand how important choices really are in life.

     Some causes for conduct in adolescents are no discipline, unstructured discipline and a broken home. A broken home is one of the factors that can produce a delinquent child. A broken home reduces the opportunity for creating a strong attachment between child and parents and that reduces the parent’s ability to condition the child. Many theories concerning the causes of juvenile crime focus either on the individual or on society as the major contributing influence. Theories centering on the individual suggest that children engage in criminal behavior because they were not sufficiently penalized for previous delinquent acts or that they have learned criminal behavior through interaction with others.

These reasons can most definitely change the life of a teen. Many teenagers can most likely be able to relate to this. For example, we all want to experience what it is to live and how it is like out there in the world. As much as it sounds tempting, there is always the right time for that. Adolescents just want to try and have fun without actually stopping to think. This is what causes most of early adulthood problems. Particularly because they think they are seen as adults, then that is when they can do anything and just get away with it. That is definitely not the case for many. Many end up in huge problems. Even if parents allow for their children to have some what of the freedom they so desperately try to get a hold up they make mistakes. Which then leads to their parents restricting their freedoms even more. So, the big idea is that if teens are competent to commit a crime such as murder, robbery, or whatever the case may be, then they should be able to handle and suffer the consequences that come afterwards.

But as soon as children start feeling that their parents care too much, they try to get back at them and do just what their parents don't want them to do. On the other hand kids who face lack of freedom may end up turning into introverts afraid to speak to other people or not as social (which is not a bad thing though).

From a sociological perspective the reason for why an adolescent is involved in delinquent behavior is because they lack the attachment to the parents. Certainly, Hirschi theory involves other three components to social theory and of course they play a role towards the delinquent behavior. An adolescent just doesn’t act upon a delinquent behavior without having any reason to it. As a child grows up mostly all parents help aid their child to follow into a good path. Not everyone is so fortunate to be given that help. Some children lack the guidance to behave in a positive way. Not having someone to guide them in way to do good in school and life can have certain consequences like being involved in delinquent behavior. They would think that no one cares in what their involved. At the same time they may be around peers that are not a good influence on them. Not to mention, adolescents go through a phase where they intend to misbehave. This certainly, contributes to them getting involved in delinquent behavior. Teens are usually hanging out together with friends and at time get peer pressure to do stuff that isn’t good. If, they have someone to guide them in the direction in not being involved in that type of activity is good both for the parent and child.

The social environment of teens holds an enormous influence on how the teens act and behave. Teens are easily influenced by their surroundings and they look to others for guidance. Their behavior results from that of the parent and peer influences. Parents play a particularly influential role in their child’s life and it is up to them to make sure that they are leading their sons or daughters in the right directions. A teen’s peers also play a large role in how the teen behaves when the parents are not around. A teen’s social environment, consisting of family and peers, plays a vital role in their life, therefore becoming the ultimate cause of juvenile delinquency.