Neighborhood Definition

Residential context is vital; the inconsistency of one's environment can generate insecurity and stress, as a result, introduce behavioral and psychological repercussions on a developing individual. Researchers Goldner et al. (2009) three-year longitudinal study found when low-income African American adolescents in urban neighborhoods, spend their recreational time in public and with older peers, both boys and girls linked with increased risk. Additionally, reported rates of exposure, through surveys, African American adolescents were more likely to witness a crime-related violence in their environment (Stein et al. 2003). Increasing in age adolescents have more unstructured play and activities, their choice to spend more time in an unsupervised …show more content…
Neighborhood context also shapes the outcome of parents, which in turn it may circulate back to their children incorporating environmental stress. For instance, factoring in the neighborhood conditions and financial strains related positively with psychological distress in parents (Gutman et al. 2005). Distressed parents are associated with economic struggles that can compromise the ability to effectively parent, increasing negative ramification impacting parent-adolescent relation, which researchers concluded to have a higher negative adjustment in adolescents. The role of an involved and supportive parent or caregiver has a tremendous lasting impact on their relationship with their children. But when financial barriers are rooted and neighborhood strains are uncontrollable, social networks become small, creating limitations on the level of control for an African American …show more content…
In relation to those aspects, parents can lack components that can incisively create a poorer mother-child relationship (Kotchick et al. 2005). Less maternal monitoring of youths activities and inconsistent in discipline practices are employed over time. For instance, having a parent receiving minimum wage, can produce more time away from home and child, as well as stress and exhaustion. Without the proper support group or resources, a single parent and child can be greatly affected. Also, the developmental niche is considered through cultural context, parents with limited means can reduce or remove niches: certain physical and social setting, customs of childcare and child rearing, and caretaker psychology (Hutchinson, 2013). These structures help children and adolescent emotional and physical needs as they