The Impacts of Poor Parental Responsibility on Future Criminality

The Impacts of Poor Parental Responsibility on Future Criminality

Introduction

Criminality is one of the most alarming social issues today . Despite efforts of the government and private organizations to minimize the occurrence of violence and offense , the statistics cease to decline . The age of offenders , on the contrary , continues to drop (Asher 2006 reports that of the 9 .6 million arrested by the FBI Uniform Crime Report in 2003 , 16 were under the age of 18 . Five percent barely reached 15 years of age . Studies have continuously pointed to many different causes

br and risk factors leading to juvenile offense and adult delinquency Childhood factors , on the other hand , remains to be an essential point of many of these studies . One of these conditions in childhood is parenting

Management of parental responsibilities and parenting styles differ significantly depending on the family structure and the societal conditions in which the family is in . As such , one parent 's reaction to a behavior manifested by a child may vary from another parent 's response . Likewise , factors surrounding a child can affect how he is going to respond to the actions and reactions of his parents . However it is important to note that the child spends his formative years at home . This validates saying that management of parental responsibility affects the behavior of children , and can be a good indicator and intervention for a child 's risk for future criminality

Good and Bad Parenting

Parenting is a lifetime career , and it is a job that each parent should strive to be good at . When couples practice positive parenting , it shields their children from the likelihood of becoming a delinquent later in life (Asher 2006 ) It is the parents , not the neighborhood , who establish the conditions at home . One , in fact , does not affect the other (Thornberry and Hall 2005 ) These circumstances directly affect the growth of the children (Eklund and af Klinteberg 2006 ) claims that poor parenting can lead to the development of antisocial behavior in children which they can carry to adulthood (Huesmann 2002 ) agrees saying that when a family is deprived of interaction and nurturing children are more prone to be aggressive - a trait which may lead to criminality

Having two parents at home is not the sole requirement . The involvement of both parents to take on the roles of rearing the children and the relationship of the mother and the father with the children are equally important (Eklund and af Klinteberg 2006 ) Both the mother and father or the figures playing these roles have different parenting perspectives that can shape their children . These perspectives should be agreed upon and communicated about , establishing a clear parenting system

The parenting system can be divided into three styles as formulated by Baumrind . The authoritarian parenting style puts control over the child and initiates a set of rules which the child should follow . Often punishment is given if the child fails to abide by the rules Authoritative , sometimes called equalitarian parenting , makes the child a...