Who's to blame for Juvenile Delinquency?

Answer 1

Each case is different and there is no one blame that fits every case.

Answer 2

The list is long, but the ones at the top of the list of who to blame would really have to be the parents. We have gotten away from what real parenting really is. Today, in our society, to be a parent to our children is to be their friend. Parents think that if they try to act like a friend and not punish the kids, the kids won't try to do drugs or anything bad. If you haven't noticed, it is those kids that get into more trouble now. The parents totally take away the kids responsibility. When they get arrested, the bond the right out of jail (several times with the same dope charges from what I have seen) and then try to blame what happened to thier kid on someone else. "My son/daughter wouldn't ever do that."

Someone brought up medications in one of thier answers. This is another way that parents fail to be parents. We come out with these new drugs for the kids so that they can concentrate or act better in school. All it boils down to is that the parents are getting tired of having phone calls from the school that their child/children are acting the ***. The parent doesn't want the school to whip the kids asses, and the parents don't want to do it either. So they talk to the doctor or see a commercial about a new pill for ADD or ADHD, and automatically the kid is diagnosed. "There is no way my child could act that way without a clinically diagnosed problem," they say. So they throw the kids on the pills without looking into what the side effects might or might not be, all just to avoid a conflict with the kids. They avoid the conflict cause it would make them look like parents laying down the law instead of being friends.

All in all, parents need to become parents and start having a big role in the kids lives. And by big role, I don't mean by letting the kids have beer or dope parties at the house when they are fifteen.

Answer 3

There used to be a rule that until a child was 10 - The parents were soley responsible,
10 - 15 Both the parent and child held responsibility and from 16 the youth was soley at fault but these days it seems that no-one is responsible untill you turn 18 - unless you do something bad enough to get tried as an adult.

Answer 4

It is hard to say one person or group is to blame. I have known families that the children have the upper hand. They tell the parents that if they punish them they will call the authorities. The parents don't want to lose the child so they give in to the children. I am the oldest of 7 children and dyfuss was never involved in my parents decisions. My parents word was law. We were not abused and were taught right from wrong. If our parents saw we were headed in the wrong direction with a certain crowd we were steered in another direction. I am not saying that it was a bed of roses but my parents loved us and knew what was right for us. None of my sisters or brothers were ever in trouble or ended up in jail. We need to learn family values and values in society when we are young. Granted Dyfuss has it place in society to prevent cruelty to children but not to take the children because they are given strict guidelines to abide to at home. If you come from a loving family home and have good esteem about yourself you should be ok.

Answer 5

For the most part, the delinquent juveniles. Eventually everyone knows the difference between right and wrong. How they chose to put their knowledge to use is up to them.

Answer 6

It must be the kids, since the parents don't feel like raising them, eh? Actually there are many people or groups pf people that contribute to this.

Parents- for not taking the time to raise kids nowdays
Child protective Services- for telling the kids that if your parents ground you, spank you, or don't buy you a big enuff lollipop then its abuse and they can find you a better family
The Churches- for standing by and watching the laws change without intervening
Rappers- for making crime seem so kewl
Food and Drug administration- for knowingly allowing food producers to use chemicals that negatively impact the children's natural brain chemistry...

The list is probably almost endless.
There used to be a saying, "It takes a village to raise a child." Well the village is thinking about money and the parents are allowing their children to be compromised instead of risking prison time. So in the end, the child isn't getting raised. Believe it or not, it really DOES take each villager doing his part for a healthy child to be raised.

Answer 7

For goodness sake people!! It is social change.
Youth has always been a time of turbulence, rebellion, challenge.
Once we are older, we look back and see how full of fire and ideas we were during our youth. Problems arise when their is no positive way to direct those energies.
Our education system is inadequate; overcrowding is the norm and children are not recieving individual attention.
Parents are at their wits ends. They cannot afford to spend time with their children; they are chasing their tails to keep their heads above water.
Our social system has become focused on things not related to our essential nature as humans.
Our ability to have meaningful relationships is breaking down!!
Children need to be loved, respected and listened to. They need to have expectations of good behaviour placed on them in the home and reinforced in the school. They need actual conversations and activities with the adults in their lives that are nurturing and instructive. They need to be protected from drugs, alcohol, violence, and the problems adults face in holding life together.
Children are not raised in isolation: they are affected by not only their family, but their community and the images they form of the wider world. If they perceive the world to be a hostile place they will rise to the challenge of living in it.

Answer 8

Seems like ALL adults involved in raising a child.... parents, relatives, teachers, neighbours, government (all levels) etc.... it 'takes a village' to raise children.

Kids learn by example and daily lessons.

The law also messed things up by freaking parents out so much they don't know how to discipline their kids... I'm not talking about beating them... it seems parents 'give up'.

Unless there is something physically (in the brain) or chemically wrong with a child that's what my opinion is on who's to blame...
everyone!

Answer 9

The government,And the parents.When i was a kid(A long long time ago)if i was naughty or miss-behaving my mum would bash me one,And i would think twice about doing something wrong,We were never beaten,Just a clip round the ear,But now you are not allowed to raise your hand to children,For fear of social services getting involved.Kids nowadays are out of control,Telling kids that was a naughty thing to do,When they miss-behave just don't work,They need to fear something.The rules that my parents taught me are still clear in my mind today forty-nine years on.

Answer 10

It is the parents fault. When children are born they are like blank canvases and initially the parents are the ones to paint anthing on them like morals, values, and ideas. Or lack there of.

Answer 11

Juveniles not taking responsibility for their actions.