Cyntoia Brown's Past Life And Childhood

Cyntoia Brown was 16 years old when her life took a drastic change that would place long-term consequences in front of her. Cyntoia brown was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, which in total she would be facing fifty-one years. In this essay I would like to express some key concepts like her past life and childhood, her phase of delinquency, and how she is today.

Before Cyntoia was ever born her mother was going through things in life that created the chain of delinquent behavior that Cyntoia fell into. Her mother has prostituted, been to jail, labeled a runaway, etc. Cyntoia never had a chance to stay away from drugs, because her mother was using hard drugs while pregnant and it passed over into Cyntoia’s blood stream unfortunately.

This was the start of a preset life that passed over from generation to generation. In her early years, Cyntoia learned a lot of negative behavior that was presented to her visually and mentally. Her mom would use drugs and alcohol, as well as possibly abuse her.
Not soon after Cyntoia would begin to imitate the behavior of her mother and peers. The people Cyntoia surrounded herself with only contributed to her downfall. She fell into the theory of differential association, which is when one learns the attitudes, behavior, and values of someone else through interaction. If someone is consistently in the presence of someone else they tend to take attributes and place them on their self. Unfortunately, she was doing many things such as prostituting, drugs, etc. the same actions her mother performed. This would lead to the day that eventually changed her life forever.
The day Cyntoia committed murder she was at a forty-three year old man’s home to give sexual favors in exchange for money. She killed the man out of fear that he was about to kill her. I believe she did this honestly out of defense, but it doesn’t justify her actions. She put herself in this position; therefore, she is now suffering the consequences that were always in her path if she continued on with the life she was living. Mental health is important and should be assessed on a regular basis. We should all hold our family and friends accountable for their actions and help them get through things they are addicted to.
Youth that have similar things going on as Cyntoia had at a young age is more common today I believe than previously. Many children are trying to grow up very fast. This means that the norms that have been placed on children such as going outside to play, using appropriate language, obeying parents, and being supervised have decreased. Since social media has become much more easily attainable and used there are younger children on these sites with people decades older than them. Even though there is policies set forth to keep a certain standard there is no one actually monitoring computers to tell whether people are lying about their ages, genders, etc. In the future, I hope there is stronger parental and/or guardian supervision over the youth. This could stop so many negative chains of behavior.