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Anu maheshwari
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Juvenile delinquency: A serious Challenge
November 30, 2006 - 05:33 AM
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Juvenile delinquency: vacuum of values
S. DANDAPANI
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WE SEEM to be living at a crossroads wherein time-honoured virtues are scoffed at as antediluvian relics unsuited for the ultra-modern life. Even a century ago we could boast of a well-knit family wherein the elders were respected and listened to. Joint family got disjointed, giving rise to nuclear families. With the exodus of people deserting villages and seeking accommodation in high-rise apartments, every one got used to living apart from one another.
With the compulsion of both wife and husband working, the youngsters are left to fend for themselves. The proliferation of old-age homes has come as a boon to working couples to dispatch the old folks. Bereft of a benign care of parents and grandparents, the youth today seem to lack guidance and direction. Slowly but invidiously, the cancer of cantankerous temperament to rebel against adult intervention has gripped the younger generation.
Uneducated liberty is no liberty at all. It is a kind of pseudo-liberty shackled to one's own self-interest. Society can function smoothly only when all the members conform to the codes of conduct, written as well as unwritten.
A sense of belonging
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Parents can spoil a child either by granting unlimited freedom or withholding it altogether. In the former case, children, having grown accustomed to act as they like at home, would expect similar patronising conditions outside home as well. Such children are likely to be petulant and rapacious when events turn contrary to their whims.
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The shocking truth is that very often, adults are instrumental in the spread of delinquency among the youth. The pornographic outlets and the call-girl rackets are not controlled by teenage monsters. These are run by adults who publicise the delinquent as a heartless, sex-crazy, rapacious and conscienceless and monstrous character with a lurid picture on the cover to sell paperbacks.
Educators, particularly at primary and secondary school levels, need to bestow special care on transformation of human behaviour rather than merely pumping into the young minds a plethora of information
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tinuke
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Re: Juvenile delinquency: A serious Challenge
December 4, 2006 - 06:45 AM
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i totally agree with u.i believe that well over 50 % of what a child becomes and especially what his thinking pattern beocmes or develops into, is a foundational part of what kind of parents he or she had.
but still,a child has the mental and physical capability regardless of magnitude of its minuteness in him/her to change his environment and resist victimisation of any sort.
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Re: Juvenile delinquency: A serious Challenge
December 7, 2006 - 03:32 AM
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It is also important to see what all contributes to the vulnerabilites of a child or his/her context.
A person's way of thinking, feeling and behaving is impacted by his/her early experiences and the context.
For example, a child who might have been physically abused by family, may believe that "world is unfair" , "i cannot trust anyone", " nobody cares for me". Such thoughts will obviously come in the way of forming or sustaining healthy relationships.
We need to understand such factors while we talk about "delinquency"
In India the term "juvenile delinquents" has been replaced by "children in conflict with law"
This post was edited on: 2006-12-11 at 01:52 AM by: Shweta-sj
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