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                        Title; who to blame?

Thesis; Family factors decided who the child are going to be, and the family take direct responsibility with the child’s potential development since they mold the child through daily activities.

Body paragraph one: child who have better modeling would behave in a better manner than those do not have access to it. David Popenoe, (1998) supports my topic by using a New York time article. The article suggest if the driver buckle up, child do the same. In order to get child buckle up, we have to make sure the drivers provide a good example. According to the David, child are fast learner and easy adopter, they follows what everybody do. A driver would have such impacts on child’s behavior, not to mention a parent. Parents are best modeling of child. Child who born in a well educated family will be edified better. Oppositely child who have parent with behavioral problem will be negatively affect.

Body paragraph two: The effects of parent’s alcohol problem on children were not to be neglect, it increases the risk of delinquency. Cannolly (1993) and other researchers collected data from face to face interview, the sample participants were observed from age 9- 13 of a multidisciplinary latitudinal study undertaken in Dunedin. As a result of the study, children who have alcoholic parent at age 9, are more likely to misbehave as compare to child with no or mild parent alcohol problem(Cannolly, G,M. 1993). I learned that In a family with at least one alcoholic, the stability within family structure was destroyed and children often have poor relationship with their parent as compares to children without alcoholic parent. When the stability within a family are broken, child are the first victim.

Body paragraph three:The instability of family relationship will have negative impacts on child . Many children are experiencing multiple transition in family structure. Moreover different racial groups will have diverse effects on child. Based on the research conduct by (Fomby and Cherlin 2007), the effects of family structure on child may vary for white and black. However they mention, child are stressful and their school performance was relatively low as compare to normal family child. The stress will lead them to delinquency. Child with or without complete family felt boldness, they think they have nothing to lose. With such a mind set, children often join gangs and seek protection other than their own family. Children are naive, and they are easy to be distracted by fancy staff.

Body paragraph four: The true victim of domestic violence is their children. Although children are previously labeled as silent witness of domestic violent, however this opinion has been topple off  by more current qualitative research. Lemmey, malecha, and Mcfarlane conduct a descriptive research. They discovered that many children who observe violent act against their mothers have greater behavioral problem than children who do not observe such violent(Lemmey, malecha, and Mcfarlane 2001). By reading this article, I found domestic violence have worst affect on child’s behavior among all kind of violence because the person use violent is the one who provides protection for them and the effects was worst on girls. As result of domestic violence, there are two different types of effect may form from witnessing it. One is internalizing, and the other is externalizing. The internalizing often involves in child’s emotional waves while externalizing causes delinquency and aggression.

Body Paragraph five: Family economic condition would also affect the quality of a childhood.  David, Nicola, and john(2004) observed 1,265 children ( 635 males, 630 females), found that the child who live under poor economic condition or disadvantages have more involvement in crime later. This argument was supported by strain theory, it say the social hierarchy within our society may pressure people to commit crime. The theory shows “Individuals in disadvantaged groups act in ways that predispose them to engage in innovative, but deviant acts to redress these strains(David, Nicola, John 2004 P.956).” I concluded that the social-economic deprivation causes stress among young people. According to the strain theory, young people with poor family may think they are worthless and inferior as compare to rich family child. Often times, those strains predisposed them to delinquency. they act in certain ways in order to reduce the stress.