Non Working Parent Home Essay

Children growing up in homes where both parents work, or a single parent home, and the parent has to work, often leaves kids raising themselves and often their younger siblings. As I began to look into research about, as I known it growing up, “latch key” kids, I found it interesting that with most searches, uninvolved parenting also brought up neglectful parenting. Are the youth of today being neglected, left to raise themselves, pushed into growing up too fast, or is it that in today’s society, the only choices are to work to provide or be a non-working parent and live in poverty and on welfare. As much as I would like to be a stay at home mom and spend endless amounts of time with my children, the reality is, that isn’t reality. It sounds real good and a bit fairy tale. In the book, when the author is …show more content…
It also prevalent that technology has interfered with what family time; parents and children on their phones at all times, even during meal times. Everything is done through social media and texting; there is no more human contact. Adolescents today have no social skills; the ability to strike up a meaningful conversation with a stranger is gone. Take an adolescent’s phone away and it’s as if you have taken their identity. Society, technology, and working class families have all contributed to the abandonment of our youth. Other research is showing that teens are experiencing more than just abandonment, but pressure from all areas in their environment. One article states, “Life for many young people is a painful tug of war filled with mixed messages and conflicting demands of parents, teachers, coaches, employers, friends and oneself.” (Walker 2002) We tend to not weigh in on all the factors affecting our youth. Furthermore, we often forget that our children see and feel our