Is Child Behavior Getting Worse

    Many children grow up without a mom, a working mom, an overprotective mom, or stay-at-home moms.

The more help she gets, the better. But [mothers] should be responsible for their own children. They should be the principal caregiver. And if they are not the principal caregiver, then they must try and find someone else who will be. Someone who plays that major role through the child's childhood"

If a person said juveniles are more delinquent now than 30 years ago, I would say to this person it depends on how old the juveniles are because age and delinquency are interconnected. “As individuals get older, they are more likely to engage in delinquency” (Bates & Swan 2014:62). 30 years ago the definition of delinquency was different and most of it cannot be applied to this era. “The behaviors are common between this generation and past generations but the definition has changed over time” (Bates, Lecture 1). Furthermore, we as society might believe the behaviors and actions from juveniles 30 years ago are more delinquent than present day juveniles. For instance, drinking, smoking, possession of weapons, no seat belts, and fighting was

Through many years, children growing up in single family homes has been discovered as problems. “At first glance, defending single mothers and their children. Raised by a strong and resourceful single mother, I turned out OK” (Wilcox). Being raised up with one parent seems to be stressful and impossible, but for decades its become possible to happen. In the society today, there are children growing up overcoming emotional stages and achieving their goals whether if they have both parents to show them difficult paths in their life that they will overcome as a growing human being. The problems that occurs within raising a child in a single family home compared to a married home can be different or the same depending on the disciplinary actions. There are many questions asked, does a child need both parent figures to be raised? Does a son need a father figure, does a daughter need a mother figure? Among all the questions asked, is there a person taking care the main responsible with much undertaking, on the single parenting topic it has become an interesting argument. People need to be more informed with raising a child. Raising a child does not rely on the structure of a family, it is more to how a parent is discipline and having a proper process of teaching their child with learning how to be mature and respectful. Children of a single home can be progressive with the same emotional, social able, and interactive behavioral skills that is raised with both parents.

In my opinion, there is more than just the child who does wrong. It is society ,parents, and schools.

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

All across the globe, there are children growing up in single-parent households, and through some research

However, by rising to these challenges, custodial single parents develop significant strengths. The positive benefits of being a single parent are that the child receives a lesson in independence. The child sees how strong the one parent is at providing them with everything they need without having to depend on someone else. The parents are showing their children that it is possible to live on their own, have an enjoyable life and take care of others while doing so. The children will know that they are a priority to the parent. When there is a second parent around the house, it can be easy to put responsibility off on them, but when the children see how hard the parent is working for them, they will understand how important they are to their parent. (Dowd, 1997)

Thesis: To understand that there are many parents raising their children alone with no help at all. Many single parents have different circumstances that cause them to raise their children by themselves. Being a single parent is not easy there are good days and bad days and most single parents must make it through no matter what. Many single parents do not realize that their children are looking at them for the rest of their lives.

The single parent also showed lower ego functioning and in turn were less playful with the children, less empathetic, less tolerant of negative behavior from the children, and more likely to display non-age appropriate behavior (Walker & Hennig, 1997). Single mothers are more likely to make negative statements about and to their children, therefore resulting in a low self esteem in the child. Walker and Hennig (1997) also discovered an up side to single parenting, the relationship between parent and child was more nurturing. This could come from the loss of intimacy in the single parent's life.

“The crime rate for juveniles is actually decreasing every year. We are on a 5 year decline right now and still going down hitting our lowest point in 2012” (Gately, 2013). Kids are starting to learn the right ways early on in life keeping them in school, out of trouble and finding good jobs. This is because juveniles know what the consequences will be for committing a crime before they do the act and get punished for it. Another reason the crimes are decreasing is because the punishments are becoming more severe. You see kids as young as eight or nine being charged as adults rather than coming off the hook with just a slap on the

Third, the single-parents should not spoil their child too much. Spoil is a common problem within families, and it is obviously to exist in single families. Single-parents

Kids behavior have increased over the past years in many ways, some different things kids have changed is that they they think they can do whatever they want and act like if they're old enough to do anything. They don’t listen when they're told to do something or they don’t listen when they get punished they take everything as a joke and think they run the business.

as different. Being raised by only one parent seems impossible to many yet over the decades it has become more prevalent. In today’s society many children have grown up to become emotionally stable and successful whether they had one or two parents to show them the rocky path that life bestows upon all human beings. The problem lies in the difference of children raised by single parents versus children raised by both a mother and a father. Does a child need both parents? Does a young boy need a father figure around? Does the government provide help for single parents? What role do step-parents and step-siblings play? With much speculation, this topic has become a very intriguing argument. What people must understand is that properly raising a child does not rely on the structure of a family but should be more focused on the process or values that are taught to these children as they learn to mature. Children of single parents can be just as progressive with emotional, social and behavioral skills as those with two parents.

A child needs a nurturing and stable environment in order to prosper and grow. A child born to a single teenage mother is much less likely to