Speculating About A Social Crisis
Teenage and young-adult violence is a growing epidemic. With the spreading violence epidemiccomes widespread depression. We are now seeing more and more depression in younger and younger people. We tend to classify angry, violent, and aggressive adolescents as troubled individuals. We try to take these troubled individuals and sequester them from our troubled world. We are appalled at the outbreaks of murder in our schools, of gang violence, and of uncontrolled adolescent anger. We pour billions of dollars into police departments and prisons, Both suicide and homicide in the adolescent age group (13 to 21 years old) have risen dramatically in the past twenty years. Suicidal and homicidal behavior are closely linked in sociological studies, and, together, are just contributing components to the growing adolescent discontent and anger. Because the youth are so easily influenced, adolescence is a time when children start to use their newly developed powers of logical thinking to see for themselves whether the things they've been told all their lives by adults, especially their parents, are really true. Incidents of violence involving teenagers in the US have caused many persons
abused by their parents, whether it be physically, sexually, or emotionally, seem to generate as children is approximately 2.4 time higher than those whose childhood's were free Emotional abuse is often harder to see, at least right away. Unlike physical abuse, emotional abuse for crimes committed by youths in that age group" (382). Males cites research that most teens most cases the father), the lack of communication within the family, and children who are
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