Poor Parenting Leads Towards Children Joining Gangs
While reading the novel, Always Running by Luis Rodriguez, I found a key reason why children are more prone to joining gangs than others. Luis Rodriguez writes how and why he joined at an early age and how that impacted who he became later on in life. In another article, Poor Parenting Causes Some Children to Join Gangs by Lewis Yablonsky, he states that children who were raised in dysfunctional homes, are more likely to participate in gang violence. From the moment we are placed into our mothers or fathers awaiting arms, we are influenced by everything and everyone around us. Even if we don’t recall the details as an infant, the actions and the feelings that surround us, form us into who …show more content…
Dysfunctional homes help create the sociopathic gangster and it’s all started by what type of environment a child is raised in. Luis’s parents couldn't hold a stable job as well as a stable home, “For months we had been pushed from one house to another, just mama and us children. Mom and dad split up prior to this…Some, nights we slept in a car or in living rooms of people we didn’t know” (14). Which illustrates that, parent’s who are unable to provide a stable home for their children are teaching their children what is considered normal and what can be expected later on in life. Since Luis’s family kept getting evicted from home to home, the areas they resided in were gang neighborhoods. Living in a gang neighborhood can put a lot of pressure onto a young adult. A gang member stated, “That’s the problem. You guys live in between the two largest hood. You got to figure out which one to claim or you’re going to get fucked by both of them” (Rodriguez 54). Poor parenting as well as living in the wrong neighborhood can ultimately lead a young adult to joining a gang. However, many young adults join gangs to feel like they belong somewhere and that they have a family that has their
While reading the novel, Always Running by Luis Rodriguez, I found a key reason why children are more prone to joining gangs than others. Luis Rodriguez writes how and why he joined at an early age and how that impacted who he became later on in life. In another article, Poor Parenting Causes Some Children to Join Gangs by Lewis Yablonsky, he states that children who were raised in dysfunctional homes, are more likely to participate in gang violence. From the moment we are placed into our mothers or fathers awaiting arms, we are influenced by everything and everyone around us. Even if we don’t recall the details as an infant, the actions and the feelings that surround us, form us into who …show more content…
Dysfunctional homes help create the sociopathic gangster and it’s all started by what type of environment a child is raised in. Luis’s parents couldn't hold a stable job as well as a stable home, “For months we had been pushed from one house to another, just mama and us children. Mom and dad split up prior to this…Some, nights we slept in a car or in living rooms of people we didn’t know” (14). Which illustrates that, parent’s who are unable to provide a stable home for their children are teaching their children what is considered normal and what can be expected later on in life. Since Luis’s family kept getting evicted from home to home, the areas they resided in were gang neighborhoods. Living in a gang neighborhood can put a lot of pressure onto a young adult. A gang member stated, “That’s the problem. You guys live in between the two largest hood. You got to figure out which one to claim or you’re going to get fucked by both of them” (Rodriguez 54). Poor parenting as well as living in the wrong neighborhood can ultimately lead a young adult to joining a gang. However, many young adults join gangs to feel like they belong somewhere and that they have a family that has their