Status Quo or Status No?
Family, the basic building block of society, is often the indicator of how a child will affect the community and how the society will look at the family unit itself. So what happens if the child begins to deviate from the societal standards?
According to a compilation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2011, 962,542 under-aged teens (below 18 years old) were arrested with 677,299 of them being males. Male delinquents outnumber female ones by more than a 2:1 ratio which has been consistent for the past 30 years. This shows an alarming number of teenagers rebelling for one reason or another. In the Philippines alone, the Bureau of Corrections and Bureau of Jail Management and Penology recorded in …show more content…
Of the five, the one to take the biggest percentage is the struggle for freedom. Freedom from parental control it would seem. Now even if teenage rebellion is uncommon, it is notable that the sudden boom of the number of rebelling teenagers stem from the fact that the biggest pressure they experience stem from them being compared to the previous generations. They are pressured into either following the footsteps of those before them or of following the legacies of their ancestors. According to Dr. Raymond Coleman, most of his teenage patients complain of parents being overzealous in their want for their children to have a good education. Most of the time, parents are justified in their actions but they get too revved up into thinking about the future and not in the now of the kids. So where does that leave the kids? This is where rebellion …show more content…
Parents will always want their kids to survive in the harsh environment that is the real world. They will do whatever it takes to make sure that their kids will have the tools required to survive. Most parents will be more aggressive in this quest than the others; some will even resort to corporal punishment. In the 1990s, George Holden, a professor of psychology at Southern Methodist University who has published five books on parenting and child development, conducted research that showed 70% of college-educated women spank their children; other studies have found that up to 90% of all parents use corporal punishment. What’s more worrying is that the punishments range from doing dangerous things such as smoking to petty reasons such as turning the page of a book before it was time.
Parental advice is not bad and it is something that teenagers want however they do want their freedom to choose their own paths. If parents start dictating everything a teen does from courses in college to choice of friends, then this pushes teenagers to rebelling. Rebelling can be something as small as sneaking out or pushing curfew limits or something as big as doing dangerous acts. Whether small or big, the fact still remains: teens will do everything to preserve their sense of freedom…even going so far as to break free from everything their family
Family, the basic building block of society, is often the indicator of how a child will affect the community and how the society will look at the family unit itself. So what happens if the child begins to deviate from the societal standards?
According to a compilation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2011, 962,542 under-aged teens (below 18 years old) were arrested with 677,299 of them being males. Male delinquents outnumber female ones by more than a 2:1 ratio which has been consistent for the past 30 years. This shows an alarming number of teenagers rebelling for one reason or another. In the Philippines alone, the Bureau of Corrections and Bureau of Jail Management and Penology recorded in …show more content…
Of the five, the one to take the biggest percentage is the struggle for freedom. Freedom from parental control it would seem. Now even if teenage rebellion is uncommon, it is notable that the sudden boom of the number of rebelling teenagers stem from the fact that the biggest pressure they experience stem from them being compared to the previous generations. They are pressured into either following the footsteps of those before them or of following the legacies of their ancestors. According to Dr. Raymond Coleman, most of his teenage patients complain of parents being overzealous in their want for their children to have a good education. Most of the time, parents are justified in their actions but they get too revved up into thinking about the future and not in the now of the kids. So where does that leave the kids? This is where rebellion …show more content…
Parents will always want their kids to survive in the harsh environment that is the real world. They will do whatever it takes to make sure that their kids will have the tools required to survive. Most parents will be more aggressive in this quest than the others; some will even resort to corporal punishment. In the 1990s, George Holden, a professor of psychology at Southern Methodist University who has published five books on parenting and child development, conducted research that showed 70% of college-educated women spank their children; other studies have found that up to 90% of all parents use corporal punishment. What’s more worrying is that the punishments range from doing dangerous things such as smoking to petty reasons such as turning the page of a book before it was time.
Parental advice is not bad and it is something that teenagers want however they do want their freedom to choose their own paths. If parents start dictating everything a teen does from courses in college to choice of friends, then this pushes teenagers to rebelling. Rebelling can be something as small as sneaking out or pushing curfew limits or something as big as doing dangerous acts. Whether small or big, the fact still remains: teens will do everything to preserve their sense of freedom…even going so far as to break free from everything their family