Juvenile Delinquency Caused by Broken Homes

Background of the study

There are many factors contributing to Juvenile Delinquency, one is Broken Homes.
This paper will tackle about young people who became delinquents because of their broken
families. Delinquents are people whose acts; course or conducts deviates from the normal acts
approved by the majority of the people. Those acts do not conform to the norms, rules of the
society. Therefore, Delinquents is a general term of any misconduct or misbehavior that is
tantamount to felony or offense (Sobebe, 2010). Nowadays, young people are engaged in
different crimes in the society. At a young age they became delinquents. In this paper we will
dig one root cause of juvenile delinquency, Broken Homes.
Statement of the Problem
This study aims to answer the following questions:
1. Why Broken Homes a big factor to Juvenile Delinquency.
Significance
This study is important because it will help us to understand more about juvenile
delinquents. These young people needed to be understood. Nowadays young people are
committing crimes because they are faced in different situations; seeking for attention, broken
relationships and many more. Instead of pestering them, why don’t we help them by knowing
the root cause why they’re doing such things? Broken Homes, I think so far is the biggest
factor of Juvenile Delinquency. These young people will not commit crimes if they feel that they
belong, they are loved and they are respected. Juvenile delinquents are young people who
also want to be
Related Literary Works
Foreign Literary works and studies
The “Broken Home” or Broken Society: A Sociological Study of Family Structure and
Juvenile Delinquency by Hillary R. Sheehan
The broken family is generally considered a family structure which deviates from the
ideal family structure. In American society the ideal family structure is the two-parent (one-
male, one-female) nuclear family. In the broken family one or both parents are absent because
of death, divorce, separation or desertion. This kind of family is expected to have adverse
effects on the child because of lack of proper role models, failure to control the child and
insufficient paternal or maternal love (Wilkinson, 1974).

In America two-parent nuclear family is an ideal family and single parent family is
a broken family. In this context single parent refers to divorce, separated couples. Proved in
this article having a broken family is a big factor to juvenile delinquency.

World YOUTH Report, 2003: Juvenile Delinquency

Studies show that children who receive adequate parental supervision are less likely
to engage in criminal activities. Dysfunctional Family settings- characterized by conflict,
inadequate parental control, weak internal linkages and integration, and premature autonomy-
are closely associated with juvenile delinquency.

In this article, proving that broken homes is a big factor to juvenile delinquency
Local Literary Works and Studies
CASES ON JUVENILE DELINQUENCY IN PALAWAN PROVINCIAL JAIL ANDPUERTO
PRINCESA CITY JAIL BY: SILVER JOHN S. SOBEBE

Table 1a.1 Presents the

level of perception of the
respondents in terms of
Family Factors.

KRUSADA: Juvenile Delinquency

By Nathalie Blanco, Multimedia Producer, Krusada

“Gab” continues to blame his only family—his aunt Susan—who took him from his parents who
are both drug addicts with the hope of saving the child from having the same fate.On the other
hand, Susan blames Gab’s barkada of being a bad influence; making it hard for the child to get
out of the life he now lives. She has started to lose faith that Gab can still change. While he
dreams to have his own family, Gab says that he wants to die early and does not believe he
will reach 30 years old. He further said that he has lost all hope in his future.