Influence Of Parenting Styles On Adolescent Delinquency

Influence Of Parenting Styles On Adolescent Delinquency

Chapter One

Preface

Background Of The Study

Juvenile delinquency is one of the arising enterprises not only in Nigeria, but also across the entire world. The maturity of juvenile delinquents are manly engaged in violent and lawless crimes including rape, murder, property crimes and numerous further. In the period of globalization, it has been indicated that the nature of offenses are getting more violent( Siegel & Welsh, 2014 cited SamiullahS. 2016)). Since the wide of juvenile delinquency has come a social problem, it has come extremely important to study this problem and to estimate the influence of parenthood styles as an underpinning cause of this geste . A parenthood style is a cerebral construct representing standard strategies that parents use in their child parenting. The quality of parenthood can be more essential than the volume of time spent with the child. For case, a parent can spend an entire autumn with his or her child, yet the parent may be engaging in a different exertion and not demonstrating enough interest towards the child. Parenthood styles are the representation of how parents respond to and make demands on their children. Parenthood practices are specific actions, while parenthood styles represent broader patterns of parenthood practices. There are colorful propositions and opinions on the stylish ways to rear children, as well as differing situations of time and trouble that parents are willing to invest.

Parents play an influential part in molding and shaping the geste ofadolescents.The set of strategies used by parents to put their children’s actions under control are called parenthood styles, which can be told by multitudinous factors including socio- profitable variables, artistic differences, particular characteristics, and cerebral factors. From this perspective, Coste( 2015) recognizes the work of Baumrind, a clinical as well as experimental psychologist best known for her work on parenthood styles. Baumrind linked three parenthood styles grounded on maternal demandingness and responsiveness, which included authoritative parenthood, authoritarian parenthood, and permissive parenthood. The substantial influence of parenthood style on adolescent development is clear. Adolescents raised in authoritative homes constantly demonstrate advanced defensive and smaller threat actions than adolescents fromnon-authoritative families.

Juvenile delinquency is directly linked to the geste of parents they borrow to treat their children( Coste, 2015). Howeve,et.al( 2009) cited in SamiullahS.( 2016) point out that youthful people’s parents are more constantly criticized for the felonious or tardy geste displayed by their children. Some of the courts indeed correct parents for the impertinent or asocial conduct of theirchildren.Juvenile is a time in which youth looks for tone- identity and autonomy. Some of them engage in conditioning that are lawless in nature, and therefore their parents come upset about their well- being. thus it’s against this background that this study is set to examine the Influence of parenthood styles on adolescent delinquency.

Statement of the problem

tardy geste is one of the most distressful problems during the period when people are considered adolescents, that is, between the age of 13 and 18. The list of tardy conditioning include turndown to cleave to the maternal demands, alcohol use and medicine dependence , stealing, property destruction, theft and rape. It’s a fact that opinion regarding the causes of tardy geste vary, but it’s generally agreed that tardy geste in adolescent times is more common than in the group of people of other age. likewise, it’s also argued that males are more likely to commit offenses than ladies.

nonetheless, there’s a noteworthy part of parents in shaping the tardy geste of adolescents. For illustration, they point out that home is the place where a normal and healthy development of any child starts and the family constitutes the backbone of an existent. From this perspective, family is considered to be a introductory ecology in which the geste of children is manifested in their nonage by way of negative or positive underpinning. thus, ignorance in their parenthood can lead them towards unwanted dangerous goods that eventually produce behavioral problems in children.

It would not be wrong to state that adolescent delinquency is more concerned with parenthood styles. Authoritarian maternal style particularly plays an influential part in developing the tardy geste among adolescents that ultimately results in negative issues. While the Permissive or Indulgent, Uninvolved, Authoritative parenthood style has their own effect too. thus it’s upon this demesne that this study is set to examine Influence of parenthood styles on adolescent delinquency.

Ideal Of The Study

The purpose of this study is to examine the the influence of parenthood styles on adolescents. Specifically it’s aimed at achieving the following

1. To examine the different types of parenthood styles espoused by parents

2. To probe if parents of adolescents has played any significant part in the socio-moral development of their adolescent

3. To determine if parents actions as part models to their children can contributes to juvenile delinquency.

4. To probe if parenthood style has any significant influence on adolescent delinquency.

Exploration Question

1. What are the types of parenthood styles espoused by parents?

2. Do parents and family play any significant part in shaping the socio-moral development of their adolescent?

3. Does parents actions as part models to their children contributes to juvenile delinquency?

4. Does parenthood style has any significant influence on adolescent flaunting tardy actions?

Significance of the study

The study will be applicable to parents, families, counselor and the reading public. To parents it’ll enlighten them on the need to ameliorate their parenthood style, icing they keep an eyes on their children and exercise more authority for their social and moral development. as this will limit them from indulging in tardy actions. To academy Counselors it’ll equip them on coming up with qualitative curatives on how to help adolescents who involves in counterculturist actions in seminaries, as this will enable those children refrain from similar before it metamorphose to delinquency. Eventually the study will contribute to the body of literature on this field and serve as reference material for farther academic exploration.

Compass Of The Study

The compass of this study covers the influence of parenthood styles on adolescents. It examined the different types of parenthood styles espoused by parents. It delved if parents of adolescents has played any significant part in the socio-moral development of their adolescent. It determined if parents actions as part models to their children can contributes to juvenile delinquency. It delved if parenthood style has any significant influence on adolescent delinquency.

Limitation Of The Study

The following factors poses to be a limitation during the course of this exploration Financial constraint – inadequate fund tends to stymie the effectiveness of the experimenter in sourcing for the applicable accoutrements , literature or information and in the process of data collection( internet, questionnaire and interview).

Time constraint – The experimenter will contemporaneously engage in this study with other academic work. This accordingly will cut down on the time devoted for the exploration work.

Description Of Terms

Parent A parent is a caregiver of the seed in their own species. In humans, a parent is the caretaker of a child.

Parenthood Style A parenthood style is a cerebral construct representing standard strategies that parents use in their child parenting.

Juvenile A chick is a child or youthful person who isn’t yet old enough to be regarded as an grown-up.

Adolescent nonage is a transitional stage of physical and cerebral development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal majority. nonage is generally associated with the teenage times, but its physical, cerebral or artistic expressions may begin earlier and end latterly.

Delinquency Delinquency is a minor crime, especially one committed by a youthful person. Delinquency can mean a particular violation, like stealing. Delinquency, felonious geste , especially that carried out by a chick.