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The Influence Of Parenting Styles On Adolescent Juvenile Delinquency
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On another occasion, students from the same school ganged up with
students from another school to sexually assault a student teacher
training in Lagos City College. These are just some of the few cases of
juvenile delinquency in secondary schools of Mainland Local Government
Area studies have been carried out to ascertain the causes of juvenile
delinquency among students. Also many theoretical models have been
developed to explain the causes of juvenile delinquency Lombrosso and
Davies in Bolarin (1995) put forward the biological and physiological
explanation for delinquency
Juvenile crime denotes various offences
committed by children or youth under the age of eighteen; such acts are
denoted as juvenile delinquency. Children offences typically include
delinquent acts, which would be considered as criminal acts if committed
by adults.
In Nigeria and global society, the family is an important
factor to be considered wherever juvenile delinquency is being
examined. Researchers like Nwadinigwe (2000), Amos (2001), Ikulayo
(2003), and Odunukwe (2008) agreed that much of what a child learns is
through the members of their respective households. Family units take a
variety of forms, all of which involve individuals living under one
roof. The family form or structure does not indicate how healthy the
family is or how they function. The family form is merely the physical
make-up of the family members in relationship to each other without
respect to roles and function. Family type include monogamous (one
husband one wife and children polygamous one husband wives and children)
and single parent which consists of only one parent (mother or
father)and dependent children. Some of this results from legal
separation, desertion, pregnancy outside marriage or death of a parent.
Family size is closely related to the types of family. It could either
be nuclear which consists of father, mother and one or more children.
The children may be biological or adopted and extended including all the
immediate relatives of a family such as parents, children,
grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Sometimes they live together or
near each other. Family size can either be small or large, that is
number of the family. Family structure includes intact-the two parents
living together, sharing parental responsibilities on their children,
they have more time to spend with their children because they share
tasks of running the household; widow done parent is dead, leaving the
responsibilities or the children on the other parent that is alive, and
separated-due to legal separation (divorce), desertion of either parent
or having a child/children outside marriage vows. Njoku (2004) believed
that “family is the core of the society and whatever the family is, that
is who its society isâ€. The indication here is that there is a critical
link between children's growth, adjustment and the quality of their
parent's relationship and the society at large. Characteristics of the
home environment such as warmth, emotional availability stimulation,
family cohesion and day-to-day activities are sources of a wholesome
personality. The researcher therefore intend to investigate the
influence of parenting styles on adolescent juvenile delinquency in
urban area of Lagos state, with reference to Mushin Local Government
Area of Lagos State.
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