Essays on Parental Control

The recognition of the dynamic interaction between a person and the environment forms the basis of the interest in stress and coping. Stress situations form part of everyday emotional life in the adolescent stage. Stress occurs when an individual lacks the capacity to handle a given circumstance that causes tense and unpleasant feelings. Stress threatens the mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing of individuals. It triggers health-compromising behaviors and leads to depression, poor eating habits, insufficient sleep, and alcohol and drug abuse. The development of a healthy coping mechanism prevents the initiation of health-compromising behaviors and reverses the harmful effects ...

Literature Review

The influence of the family on children's behavior is widely documented in the literature, and numerous studies support the idea that involved parental style and authoritative parental approach significantly affect children's academic achievement, regardless of ethnic/racial background, gender, and age. Baumrind, in her study entitled Effects of Authoritative Parental Control on Child Behavior (1966), argued that theory-based categorization of parental style that led to specific parental control would bring forth diverse behaviors and attitudes in children. Baumrind's theory-based categorization of parental style led to the earliest parental style paradigm, namely, permissive, authoritarian, and authoritative, all of which having emotional ...

Problem Statement

Effective parenting is an important way of developing the people, especially during the teenage or adolescent stage. This is the time when a young person is more exposed to various risks. The society is a big place, which gives various risk factors that directly affect and influence the development of a child. Violence, drugs, and other undesirable actions can be adapted by the child if there is no effective parenting on the situation. The study of human socialization of adolescents is an important topic to know if or not parents are doing the right thing for their child, especially ...

Recently, the high rate of death of teenagers in car accidents has become a matter of concern. Research conducted by National Teen Driving Statistics reveals that 16-year-old teenagers are thrice more likely to cause car accidents compared to the average other drivers (Fleming, 2010). Moreover, in 2002, the economic burden as a result of 15 to 18 years old drivers was estimated to be $40.8 billion showing how costly teenage driving is (Iowa, 2010). Lack of parental control, teenage immaturity, and the historical background accidents and deaths caused by teenage drivers are the three main reasons that should make ...

Family is the natural environment in which, upon the ideal circumstances, a child grows and develops. The role of parents in successful early development of children cannot be overrated, as adults are considered fully developed, stabilized individuals who carry an important mission of ensuring proper physical, psychological, social and cultural development of their offsprings.

Increasing evidence suggests that the early period of child development has a significant influence on their further life in terms of cognition, learning and behavior (Young, 2002, p. 23). Naturally, much depends on the sociocultural, economic and political environment in which a child spends the early stages of ...

“Girl Trouble” is a video documentary of the lives of three young girls taking place in a span of four years. These three girls – Shangra, Stephanie and Sheila – shared several commonalities. All girls had experienced being part of the San Francisco juvenile system at one time or another. All three had also worked part time for the Center for Young Women’s Development (CYWD) whose director, Lateefah Simon was herself a victim of poverty and had experienced brushes with the law. Most important of all, all three girls come from poor and/or violent family background. Fortunately for these girls, the end turned out ...

A 21 year old man named Brian Belanger was arrested for the offense of enticing a ten year old child to produce sexually explicit videos of himself and send them to him via email. The man, who hails from Worcester in Massachusetts, is alleged to have met the child online through PlayStation 3 where he told the child that someone was seeking to kill him. He then convinced the child that he could help him by availing to him those videos which he would subsequently turn to another person. It is further alleged that Belanger continued to give directions ...

Family is the most important among all the factors that influence the child’s psychological state, behavior, character and social status. Families often face some problems due to a generation gap. For example, teenagers prefer not to share their personal life when it comes up to the opposite sex attraction. Such situations cause conflicts between the parents and their child. Analyzing and investigating the parental control, Diana Baumrind described three main types of parents.Thus, the permissive parent has a loyal attitude towards the child, accepting his desires and actions. Such a parent does not require to be respected as a role model, moreover, ...

Introduction

There are many different extracurricular activities that are been dominated by adolescent youths of the same ethnicity compared to others in public school. There has been an increase in awareness on how children especially those from high school on the way they spend their time when they leave schools and how it affects the children’s development and education. This has caused many people to do researches about the issue. Some of the results found by the researchers are that there are different types of after school activities that students have due to their ethnicity and economic background that ...

Introduction

Same sex marriage has become a polarizing issue in both state and national politics as well as religious platforms. In the United States alone, fourteen including California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Washington among others, states have legalized same sex marriages either through court decisions, state legislations or through popular votes. However, some other states such as Alabama, Arizona, Alaska, Kentucky, and Missouri among several others have banned same sex marriages by constitutional amendments and state laws, or constitutional amendments or state laws only. The polarizing views on gay marriages can also be witnessed on religious groups with some groups ...

Abstract

This essay discusses the various causes of juveniles committing murder and looks at the possibility that some children are born with a predisposition towards violence and murder. Research has thrown up that there is a wide range of possible causes, some of which can – alone or in combination – trigger the ensuing violence. Causes that occur frequently and that therefore figure prominently in the results of studies are poor academic performance and school truancy, leading to the individuals concerned mixing with the wrong crowd and perhaps getting into trouble as a result, at the same time missing out on the school environment and ...

Introduction

Many a times parents do not realize that their attitudes towards their children is affecting them seriously, which results in impulsive and irrational behavior leading to dangerous consequences. The difference in adolescent behavior can be observed but without the knowledge of the reasons as to why such behaviors are escalating, both parents and teachers are unable to solve them. Hence it is important to study the reasons of such behaviors so that we understand how these individual differences affect children and be able to manage such erupting behavior problems. Moreover, it is important to identify children and parents who ...

Child Predation

The development of the internet over the last 20 years has resulted to the improvement in communication both socially and in the business community. There has been an increase in access to plenty of information. However, despite the internet being a valuable tool, it has resulted to increased hazards towards the safety of children. Child predation via the internet has become easy due to the presence of online solicitation and increased access to inappropriate material (Dombrowski, Gischlar, and Durst, 2007). The internet also allows different individuals to be able to misrepresent themselves via online chat rooms, which makes it easy ...

Summary of Interviews

Three persons were interviewed to determine their attitudes concerning the use of Facebook by young teens: a 28-year-old mother, a 28-year-old nonparent, and a 42 year-old father. All three had their reservations regarding the minimum age requirement for registration at Facebook. They felt that 13 was too young an age for children to be able to make certain life-decisions without parental control, and that Facebook might expose them to situations they might not be mature enough to handle. They also all thought that 16 would be a more suitable age for a teen to join a social network. However, they also all agreed that ...

Marriage in the Renaissance

Marriage in the Renaissance was not what marriage is today; generally, it was not based on romantic love but on social status and political strategy. The center of early modern European society was marriage and the political and social status that came along with it. Marriage in this time also transformed children into adults, justified sexuality in the eyes of the church and the state, and it acted to reproduce the ruling classes (Horodowich, 2002). When parents promised their children in marriage, most thought only of money and short term strategic gain (James, 2008). Marriages arranged for social, economic ...