The Consequences And Effects Of Family : Family And Delinquency

The first main type of neglect is physical abuse; this can be anywhere from shaking a child to beating a child. Child abuse is physically hurting a child whether the child is injured,

Neglect is the failure to meet a child’s basic physical and or psychological needs, which is likely to affect the child’s health or development. Neglect is when a parent or carer fails to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter (including exclusion from home or abandonment), medical care, or protection from physical and emotional harm or danger. Additionally failure to ensure access to education or to look after a child because the carer is under the influence of alcohol or drugs, is considered as Neglect.

Defining child abuse is a complicated issue. First, currently the United States does not have a standard definition of child abuse because each state has their definition. Definitions are different at the state and federal level. Child welfare agencies also may have different child abuse and neglect definitions. The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) define child abuse and neglect as any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker that result in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse, or exploitation; an act or failure to act that presents an imminent risk of serious harm (Child Abuse and Neglect User Manual, 2003;

The meaning of neglect is a pattern of not being able to provide basic needs.As shown in the chart above neglect is the most common type of child abuse. Neglect is almost three times more common than physical and sexual abuse combined. This category is broken up into three groups: Physical neglect, education neglect, and emotional neglect.

Child neglect is the most common form of child maltreatment in the U.S. The Neglect Data System (NCANDS) for short, recorded approximately 899,000 children in the U.S were victims of abuse and neglect in 2005. Neglect is a type of abuse that is failure by the guardian to provide necessities such as food, clothes, love, and time with the child. Not giving anything that a normal parent would provide to their child. Signs of child neglect are poor hygiene, poor weight gain, poor medical care or frequent absences from school. There are many types of abuse; neglect is just one of them. Here below are the different types of child abuse.

To conclude, the final form of abuse is neglect. Neglect is defined by the U.S. Department of Health as failure to provide, by those responsible for care, custody, and control of the child, failure to provide the proper or necessary support, education required by law, nutrition or medical, surgical, or any other care necessary for the child’s well-being. Neglect is the leading cause of child abuse and covers a broad range of acts that are seen as child maltreatment. Neglect can be in the form of physical, emotional/ psychological, medical or education. Many of these seem to overlap other forms of abuse but can be distinguished when clearly defined. Neglect is the failure to provide, causing it to be more indirect than physical or sexual abuse.

Child abuse and neglect are caused by any types of intentional behaviour by caregivers, adults, adolescents that occur over time and may cause a risk of physical, psychological or emotional injury to a child or young person (S2) (S1) (S5)

Neglect is the "failure to provide for a child's physical needs" (Arizona Child Abuse Info Center, 2016). For example, if a child is experiencing a lack of supervision, inappropriate housing, or shelter, inadequate provision of food, inappropriate clothing, abandonment, and denial of medical care, it must be reported by the Mandated Reporter (Arizona Child Abuse Info Center, 2016).

There have been many studies conducted to correlate the family structure and how it may or may not affect juvenile delinquency (Sheehan, 2010). This is because the structure of a family is a very popular choice to explain delinquent behavior. What is interesting, to me, is how the general public rejects much of the scholarly research, which shows that juvenile delinquency has been on the decline (Sheehan, 2010). In fact, the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice shows that juveniles who have been incarcerated has been cut in half from 1980 through 2004 (Sheehan, 2010). However, data from 2008 and 2009 shows that juvenile delinquency is still an issue today. In 2008, there were well over 6000 arrests for every 100,000 youths and in 2009,

When a family is unable to offer a stable foundation they begin to face challenges. Problems in the family are commonly cited as variables that can lead to delinquency. Research points to dysfunctional parenting, abuse, family size, and neglect as some of the concerns that can influence the quality of a child’s life. Large families and indifferent parental attitude can create an environment where a child feels rejected. In a home where the parent’s attention is always divided, the child might be encouraged to act out as a way to seek

     ï‚§ Physical neglect accounts for the majority of cases of maltreatment. It is estimated that 8 of every 1,000 children experience physical neglect. The definition includes the refusal of or extreme delay in seeking necessary health care, child abandonment, inadequate supervision, rejection of a child

Child neglect is another form of child abuse, but focuses more on the act of omission rather than the act of commission. According to the Center for Disease Control (2016), child neglect is defined as, the failure to provide for a child's basic physical, emotional, or educational needs or to protect a child from harm or potential harm. Forms of neglect include educational neglect, physical neglect, and emotional neglect (Iannelli, 2010; Leeb et al., 2007). Child neglect is not always deliberate abuse; however, more often than not it yields similar detrimental consequences as with intentional acts of child

During my childhood, many of my friends who were caught up in delinquent behavior were also raised in single parent households. In this instance, Amy Anderson’s study, “Individual and contextual influences on delinquency: the role of the single-parent family” studies the individual and academic effects of single parent families on delinquency. For her sample, she used existing statistics by gathering a sample of 5,935 eighth graders from a program called GREAT, Gang Resistance Education and Training, that was established at thirty-five high schools (Anderson 2002). In regards to her data, there were three dependent variables that involved two to four questions each: status offenses, property offenses and person offenses (Anderson 2002). In addition, each question asked how frequently that specific crime took place in the last year, with the highest score being twelve (Anderson 2002). In regards to family structure, each student was asked a single question with seven responses to determine who the child lived with, mother only, father only, both, grandparents, mother and other relative, father and other relative or other relative (Anderson 2002). In sum, Anderson was able to conclude that not only do kids who live in single parent homes commit more crimes than kids who have both parents, but children from single parent families that are in

Girls who grew up in stepfamilies were involved in more delinquent behavior compared to girls who lived in in-tact homes. For boys, living in a single parent family greatly increases the chance of delinquent behavior while living in a stepfamily does not. The test also showed that a good relationship with the mom and dad helped lower delinquent activities in girls. For boys, having a good relationship with their dad and lower conflict in the family helped lower delinquent activity.

Kierkus and Hewitt (2009) in The Contextual Nature of the Family Structure/Delinquency relationship discussed that family structure is an important factor in delinquency but there might also be other factors that influence this type of behavior. The relationship