Pimples, crowded hallways, schoolboy/girl crushes. The awkward obstacles of teenage years are challenging to everyone. No one escapes the journey of adolescence completely unscathed. Even though all young adult struggles are not identical, they are there nonetheless, and for some, the situations faced can be crippling. For those select individuals whose circumstances are more severe than merely tripping in the school hallway, the motivation to succeed but as well as to simply continue is a fleeting feeling. The young adults who experience intense hardships in their life are teens who are much more prone to damaging choices due to their difficult lifestyles. The term used most often to describe the struggling young adults amongst society is …show more content…
Carpentry can offer the at-risk youth a creative outlet, a chance for deeper relationships, and an opportunity for career advancements. Carpentry truly can be a means to fix the lives of those in need, one hammer and nail at a time.
Several perspectives on the topic of whether or not technical skills are actually beneficial to at-risk youth have been discussed as a means to avoid the implication of carpentry programs for those lost individuals. The most common argument for the implication process is that carpentry is an unreliable craft. This ideal suggests that carpentry is an unreliable trade to be a part. The believers of this perspective concede that the craft will remain necessary throughout decades to come, but the ideology implies that troubled teens will not benefit from being taught the skills necessary for this craft; instead, it would be time wasted. When referring to technical trades such as carpentry, Marcel Clément states that “…within the next fifteen years, half of the present force will be replaced, not by trained
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They can be those struggling with mental disorders, abusive households, harmful environments and much more. One definition, given by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation is “Youth from low-income families are vulnerable to poor outcomes as adults, as these youth often lack the resources and opportunities found to lead to better outcomes.,” (Vulnerable Youth and the Transition to Adulthood). However, there are several other circumstances in which teens could be listed as at-risk, not just low-income situations. The term itself and who fits under it is rather subjective, but the problem nonetheless is very substantial. Considering today’s modern society and the presence of technology, the potential for teens being considered at-risk increases. This is due to the fact that things associated with at-risk individuals such as gang involvement, criminal activity, and violence-associated actions, are illuminated through the
There are many contributing factors for high schoolers struggling. The peer pressure for one, may lead to a traumatic event of another. This can alter life immensely. Traumatic events can shape people's personalities and how they’ll respond to situations for the rest of
Youth at risk is an ultimate fear, for our parents, teachers, political parties, churches and so forth. From teen gambling to kids gone missing to school shootings, the media has done it again by reinforcing fears into our minds that there is an epidemic of youth violence. I believe this is because we as people never know exactly what children are going to do.
According to the Enhanced Surveillance of Canadian Street Youth, 1999-2003, the ratio of males to females street youth is about 2:1. The principal reason reported by street youth for leaving home was conflict with parents. The main source of income for most street youth was social welfare. Report of dropping out of school/ expelled permanently from school by more than 35% of street youth. “More than one-half street youth reported emotional abuse or neglect and about 15% of street youth reported their families had been homeless”.
Risk factors are centered around parents and caregivers, who is a child’s first form off insight on how relationships and ultimately how the world and its inhabitants function. In many cases, if the caregiver is not emotionally or financially stable, which puts a child at a much higher risk to experience some form of abuse. This concept is prevalent throughout Jorja Leap’s book “Jumped in.” Many of the people who joined the gang life resorted to the hood because their parents were either incarcerated, too drugged out, or dead. This is a form of abuse and this emotional trauma leads the children to turn to find another form of family, which is the “hood.” Community violence is usually a negative result that comes from some form of child abuse at a very early age. As the CDC states “concentrated neighborhood disadvantage (e.g., high poverty and residential instability, high unemployment rates, and high density of alcohol outlets), and poor social connections” are a high risk factor for child to experience abuse. In “Jumped in” one of the characters, Johann speaks about how she felt abandoned by her own mother. She explains how her mother was “no damn good. She left [her] so many times. She never there when [she] need[ed] her… and she makes [her] feel like shit” (JI-Leap). Furthermore, another character explained how his “mother [was] gone and [his] father [he] never knew, [he] knows this, [he] knows [his] neighborhood” (JI-Leap). In addition another high risk factor is unwanted pregnancy by teenagers who themselves are still in the process of development.
These crime-ridden communities (or ghettos) are springing up all through the country, mainly in and around major metropolitan areas. These areas are the most populated, so that means that within these areas are the most people there to be influenced by the crimes committed by fellow people. In Male's reading he shows statistics that prove the fact that once the poverty factor is taken away then teen violence disappears. He later adds, “That if America wants to rid of juvenile violence than serious consideration needs to be given to the societally inflicted violence of raising three to 10 times more youth in poverty than other Western nations.” (Males p386)
... are on the streets, they are planning a crime or looking to "gang-bang." The majority of people are aware that every teenager who is seeking independence feels a strong sense of adult ambivalence. Therefore, many of these teens see any intervention by the police as harassment and excessive. The reality is that these young men have been forced to "raise" themselves as many have no fathers and their mother forced to work two minimum wage jobs just to feed and provide clothing for them. Without appropriate role models, they seek the advice and support of friends. This may lead them to participate in risk taking behavior but often just places them in "the wrong place at the wrong time." Many of these young men also carry weapons because their inner-city neighborhoods are full with gangs and drug dealers. And “it’s better to become a member than to get shot by one”.
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Correspondingly, these poor urban neighborhoods can lead to less effective parenting due to the stress and struggles they are facing, which may cause adolescents to develop delinquent behaviors. Due to the high crime rates in such neighborhood, adolescents are more likely to be exposed to deviant peer groups and gang behaviors, and these may result in a stronger deviant peer effect on the adolescents. (Deutsch, 2012)
Teenage Depression. Everywhere you look these two words appear together as one, in newspapers and magazines, as well as in scholarly reports. Teenage depression is one of today's "hot topics" this among other teenage mental health problems, has been brought to the forefront of public consciousness in recent years after several incidents involving school shootings (CQ 595). The environment that teens grow up in today is less supportive and more demanding than it was twenty years ago. Not only are the numbers of depressed teens rising, but children are also being diagnosed at younger and younger ages. Studies have found that, "There is an estimated 1.5-3 million American children and adolescents who suffer from depression, a condition unrecognized in children until about 20 years ago" (CQR 595). This increase in depression is due to social factors that teenagers have to deal with everyday. A recent study found that, "About five percent of teenagers have major depression at any one time. Depression can be very impairing, not only for the affected teen, but also for his or her family-and too often, if not addressed, depression can lead to substance abuse or more tragic events" (NAMI.org). Gender roles and other societal factors including the pressures on girls to look and act a certain way, the pressures on boys to suppress their emotions and put on a tough front and the pressures on both sexes to do well in school and succeed, all contribute to depression in teens today. Depression is a growing problem which crosses gender lines and one that needs to be dealt with with more than just medication.
The rate of American teens leaving home has continued to rise each year. The United States must educate more young people about the dangers of leaving home and living on your on the streets. Runaway teens encounter problems such as drugs, violence, and reliable resources.
Imagine you and I with such limited opportunities. Imagine if children like us did not know the joys of school life but rather the life of hard physical labor. Imagine if we had to struggle miles for water, work several hours a day to earn a few scraps of food that kept us barely alive. Unimaginable, yet the life of 215 million kids around the world today – child laborers. Children are engaged in the worst forms of child labor, many of them in agriculture. They use potentially dangerous machinery and tools, carry heavy loads, work long hours in extreme heat a...
Child labor refers to the economic active population under the age of 15 years employed in various industries (Grootaert, 2). According to the Microsoft Encarta, child labor is now used to denote the employment of minors in work that may interfere with their education or endanger their health (IPEC, 1). Child labor has grown to be a topic of widespread debate. It has many favorable and unfavorable points of view. In any case, child labor should be eradicated as it is harmful to the health of the children, it is an obstacle to their education, and it denies them a happy childhood.
What comes to mind when hearing the words child labor? Is it simply of children doing work in a 1920’s factory? Is it an image of Malaysian children in a sweatshop making sneakers for less than a quarter a day? When many people think of child labor, they always connect it with negative meanings. Child labor has become a global issue; many of the countries whom employ child workers are developing ones. According to the International Labor Organization, the number of child laborers has decreased from a stifling 246 million, to 168 million. It’s also well known that child labor was a major part of the United States, and many other industrial countries in the late 1800’s and for the US, mainly in the early 1900’s. While child labor is constantly viewed in the negative, many do not take a look at the possible benefits of having children work at an earlier age. Trying to refrain from looking more into the hazardous conditions that many children have to work with, looking at the idea of having children work at an earlier age and the benefits it brings in terms of developing a better work ethic, and aiding children into stepping into the adult world.
The dilemma started in late 1700's and mid-1800's as the factory possessors utilized children to work on their machines since there are no laws to restrict the child labor or the proper age to work. As a result, this crisis still affects the world. Moreover, the present reasons for child labor are the same as those of the past including a restricted capacity of training, the lake of decisive laws that ban children labor and disappearance of working credit hours. Child labor influences their future because it hurts them in many forms of intellectual and physical ways including autism, paranoia, physical disabilities, burns and sexual harassment. This dilemma put the 3 kids of the Cebu construction site in Philippine under harsh conditions. However, the shocking fact that these children who were victims of this accident are now hired not as workers in mines and construction sites but as thugs and criminals was ignored by the society and the government. Therefore Child labor is a dilemma that has a lot of reasons and consequences on children future.(Hobbs, Mackehnie, & Lavalette,