The importance of family in a child's life

In the opinion of several researchers, youth deviant behavior has certain specific features:

• violation of laws and legal provisions which prohibit the commission of certain actions;

• expressions of behavior contrary to moral and social coexistence;

• the development of antisocial actions which endanger the safety of institutions and social groups, producing a sense of fear and insecurity of individuals;       

Also, juvenile deviant behavior has many forms, which may be mentioned: crimes and offenses, suicide, taking drugs, religious deviance, mental illness, physical disability. The worst forms of deviant behaviour are murder, rape and roguery.

In the view of psychologists there are many factors that can influence the occurrence of deviant behavior: individual internal factors and external social factors, but they considers that can be and cause bio-psycho-sociogene.

An important factor is family, which, according to researchers, may cause to child a deviant behaviour unless it provides an appropriate education. Family environment may present gaps very different the legal, social, moral, educational, related to situations like infidelity, desertion, divorce, concubinage, death, sexual vices, etc., not to mention the absence of a family environment, as for children orphaned, abandoned, in the public assistance.

It has evolved once with time more changes. If, before single – parent family was considered the most unfavorable to train and educate a child properly, today families with one parent is tied with other types of families.

Family factors that intervene in the formation of aggressive behavior are represented in particular parental behavior and namely deficiency associated with maternal affective model associated with lack of paternal behavior or abuse of authority of the latter. To these are added influences of family environment (conflicts between family members) lack of emotionality among them generating a violent behavior. A familial unbalanced devoid of emotionality, especially from the mother will generate adjustment disorder and communication at child in the social environment, disorder that can take the form of depression, autism, aggressions.

Behavior disorders of children include a wide range of events starting from feelings of guilt marked increased excitability, feelings of inferiority, until the crisis aggression, escape (that becomes vagabondage), mendacity, theft, and as a means of achieving antisocial acts are adult type, but like motivation are childish. It is also important to specify that most antisocial acts committed in group, at the induction of a minor age greater or intellectual development than others.

In childhood first contact oh the child is with his family. This chooses to assist him in life offering them as models to guide, education received in these years was, in the opinion of specialists, the most important. During this period the child take contact with the first people, learn to socialize, the father is like a model to follow, an idol. Nevertheless, models sometimes followed by the children are not suitable. Some of them are subjected to violence, become witnesses of domestic violence, have to attend to family quarrels, and some become victims of their parents. All these can cause minor deviant behavior such as suicide, smoking, drug, develop aggressive behavior towards other, become in the worst cases, thugs, rapists or robbers.

Researchers have found that certain characteristics of family may develop child deviant behavior in reaching a final to object to what is fair or legal for the simple reason that the family models were wrong.




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