Also, Davidson, Briggs and Omar (2015) study showed that pervasive use of drug and alcohol, intimidation, and physical abuse among others are the results of children with low-income family dynamics. The study argued that the traditional family system in America in the 1950s which consisted of a father, mother and children– all residing together has wilted. Today, several factors including divorces, single-parent homes, and children who are placed in foster care or raised by family members (whose parents were incarcerated) have led to stronger peer pressure that have swayed them away from their parents or guardians. At such, peer influenced is greater and adolescents exhibited risky behaviors and engaged in high alcohol and drug use, bullying,
