Summary Of Unhealthy Parental Attachment

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However, when it comes to how deviant behaviors can have on individuals as well as society some people believe that children who suffer from unhealthy parental attachment are more likely to develop criminal behaviors. Therefore, peer influence has become one of the most noteworthy issues found by examiners to predict misbehavior. Behavior examiner have complied data to use in an analysis of preadolescent youth in efforts to discover the effects of family and peer relationships involving criminal behavior on society. The collected data confirm that family structure, parental direction, and parental affection neither determine serious criminal

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