Modern society is dynamic, constantly changing, and either progressing or regressing. It is passing through a period of extensive transitions that have far-reaching social and cultural consequences. Although an unchanging society may be as unstable as a rapidly changing one, it is in a changing society that such problems as delinquency and crime tend to increase. Juvenile delinquency is old problem which have increased in extent and intensity in the recent years. A Law violation by the juveniles has become a national concern.
Children commit crimes not just in a particular area or country. Children commit crimes worldwide. Sometimes their crimes are violent; other times they are not. Juvenile delinquency is a complex problem that is difficult …show more content…
The earliest and most important stages of a child’s socialization occur with in the family. The family is largely responsible for instilling in children important moral and religious values and understandings about right and wrong. However, as the Chinese proverb states, no family is perfect; nobody’s family can claim they do not have problems. Family problems, however, vary greatly in both type and magnitude. The problems of some families may be minor and produce only small consequences for family members. Other families may experience greater problems and the impact on members may be significant. To sum it up, composition of famillies is one of the reasons for adolescents’ or juvenile …show more content…
But the question now is what provokes a child to become delinquent and what makes the child gravitate so easily towards this lifestyle? There are actually different compositions of family. But the researchers will just be focusing on the three (3) major composition of family that is related to juvenile delinquency. In this study it tells how family life influences and affects juvenile delinquent. First composition is a Single-parent family where mother or father never married or now divorced, and with his or her biological or adopted children. This kind of family might affect the child especially if the parents are divorced or separated already; this may lead to delinquency because the child is seeking for attention that one parent was not able to offer it to the child. Research exist reporting that children from single-parent families are more likely to become delinquent than children from two-oarent families. Single parents can less-effectively supervise their children (one can do less than two). And single parent families are easyly affected by their peers. Previous research suggests that the most important determinant of whether a child will be involved in delinquency is the quality of the parent-child relationship rather than a family structure alone. Second is stepparent family in which one is divorced or widowed adult living with all or some of his or her