Societal norms have changed throughout history. Through the early 1900s mothers stayed home with their children to nurture, teach, and correct them. Overtime there has been a shift from women staying home to entering the workforce and bringing income in for the household. This occurs in all types of families. Broken homes may have a single provider earning income or two parental figures working full-time. The same can be true with traditional family structures consisting of two parents and their children. Consequently society is witnessing a rise of women entering the workplace. With the traditional nurturer and caregiver removed from the home for a period of time there has been an increase of children being charged with the responsibility
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Latchkey children are children that spend time at home alone without parental supervision, usually this occurs after school while parents are still at work. According to the Idaho 2-1-1 Helpline “experiences associated with problematic behavior [include] poverty or low socio-economic status, poor/ ineffective parental supervision and disciplinary skills, [and] family violence- verbal and emotional abuse, or neglect, etc.” (Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, n.d.). With the absolute best intentions, good parents can influence their children in negative ways by allowing them to become a latchkey …show more content…
Despite this split, most (63%) violent crimes committed by juveniles occur on school days. Nearly one-fifth (19%) of juvenile violent crimes occur in the 4 hours between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on school days. A smaller proportion of juvenile violent crime (15%) occurs during the standard juvenile curfew hours of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. (inclusive of both school and non-school days). The annual number of hours in the curfew period (i.e., 8 hours every day in the year) is 4 times greater than the number of hours in the 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. period on school days (i.e., 4 hours in half of the days in the year). Therefore, the rate of juvenile violence in the afterschool period is 5 times the rate in the juvenile curfew period (inclusive of both school and non-school days). Consequently, efforts to reduce juvenile crime after school would appear to have greater potential to decrease a community’s violent crime rate than do juvenile curfews (U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs,
Latchkey children are children that spend time at home alone without parental supervision, usually this occurs after school while parents are still at work. According to the Idaho 2-1-1 Helpline “experiences associated with problematic behavior [include] poverty or low socio-economic status, poor/ ineffective parental supervision and disciplinary skills, [and] family violence- verbal and emotional abuse, or neglect, etc.” (Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, n.d.). With the absolute best intentions, good parents can influence their children in negative ways by allowing them to become a latchkey …show more content…
Despite this split, most (63%) violent crimes committed by juveniles occur on school days. Nearly one-fifth (19%) of juvenile violent crimes occur in the 4 hours between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on school days. A smaller proportion of juvenile violent crime (15%) occurs during the standard juvenile curfew hours of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. (inclusive of both school and non-school days). The annual number of hours in the curfew period (i.e., 8 hours every day in the year) is 4 times greater than the number of hours in the 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. period on school days (i.e., 4 hours in half of the days in the year). Therefore, the rate of juvenile violence in the afterschool period is 5 times the rate in the juvenile curfew period (inclusive of both school and non-school days). Consequently, efforts to reduce juvenile crime after school would appear to have greater potential to decrease a community’s violent crime rate than do juvenile curfews (U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs,