Excluded young people are more likely to suffer social and educational disadvantages. This includes all forms of abuse, frequently moving homes, domestic violence, bereavement and homelessness. Young People risks their health through smoking, drug and alcohol use, unsafe sex and becoming parents in their teens. The community they live in is also a factor on their wellbeing. Wellbeing including a sense of safety and stability with positive interaction and community involvement.
Douglas Coupland: Dangerous Behaviour of Teens Society has made it acceptable for teens to engage into dangerous behaviours, which harm the young population. Douglas Coupland’s Girlfriend in Coma, exhibits an example of how a teenager takes on harmful habits that hurts her and her surrounding peers, both physically and mentally. Girlfriend in coma shows an ideal example of how teenagers abuse their freedom, engaging in harmful habits such as, drinking and drug use, having unsafe sex, as well as asserting an inappropriate example for future generations, by altering the moral codes. Firstly, the character Pam displayed the consequences of her terrible habit of drinking and drug use. Secondly, Karen and Richard engage into a sexual relationship, which lead them to face adult problems later on.
But there is a big difference between using physical punishment to discipline and physical abuse. The point of disciplining children is to teach them right from wrong, not to make them live in fear. However, it is impossible to know whether marital strife is a cause of child abuse, or if both the marital strife and the abuse are caused by tendencies in the abuser. Substance abuse can be a major contributing factor to child abuse. One U.S. study found that parents with documented substance abuse, most commonly alcohol, cocaine, and heroin, were much more likely to mistreat their children, and were also much more likely to reject court-ordered services and treatments (Besharov, 1990).
"Underage drinking -- even so-called light drinking -- is dangerous, illegal, and must not be tolerated," said SAMHSA Administrator Nelba Chavez, Ph.D. "This study points out that the effects of underage alcohol use extend far beyond 'drinking and driving.' Parents need to know that alcohol use can also be a warning sign or a cry for help that something is seriously wrong in a child's life." Dr. Chavez continued, "If parents, counselors, teachers, coaches and other caring adults reach children early enough, they can intervene before troubling behaviors lead to serious emotional disturbances, illicit drug use, school failure, family discord, violence, or even suicide. With 10.4 million current underage drinkers, the magnitude of the problem
Under Age Drinking Alcohol is the drug of choice to many teenagers and they are experiencing the consequences of drinking to much at an early age. As a result, underage drinking is the leading public health problem in this country. Each year approximately five-thousand people under the age of twenty-one die as a result of underage drinking, yet drinking continues to be widespread among adolescents nationwide. There should be a mandatory class that children take in school about the effects of alcohol and other addicting substances. As children move from adolescents to young adulthood they encounter dramatic physical, emotional, and lifestyle changes.The younger that children and adolescents are when they start to drink alcohol are more likely to engage in behaviors that can harm themselves and others.
Many books were interesting regarding child stress but particularly “The Romance of Risk” by Dr. proton was very amazing. The romance of risk is a perfect book for parents concerned about their children’s well-being in this age of abuse. Proton tell us about the ideas that risk-taking is primarily an angry power struggle with parents and teenage. Challenge and risk are the primary steps use to find out about your child that who they are and determine who they will become. In the chapter “Divorce Wars: The Buddy Dilemma”, Dr. Proton explains how teenagers struggle during the difference between their parents and as a results end up making choices such as drugs, alcoholism,
• Students are telling others about how unsafe it is to drink and drive because you are not just risking your own life but many others. • Students are trying to show others how important it is to stay of the roads when drinking. http://www.sadd.org/teenstoday/parentsdriving.htm 4. Investigate the problem of teenage suicide. - What steps can be taken by schools to prevent this problem?
Web. 11 June 2012. Judith Warner wrote an articled titled “Parents Created This Problem, and Must Address It,” where she tackles the continually dangerous and rising issue of students who are using drugs to make them focus in school and on school work. The drugs being abused are most commonly Ritalin and Adderall, which is medication prescribed to people with A.D.H.D., but however are being used by a countless number of students. Warner argues that this is very dangerous to kids and the pressure of parents on their kids to do well in school
The social dynamics of school, puberty, life at home, and many other factors affect the psyche of teens during this time in their life both positively and negatively. Some of these transitions cause emotional instability in the lives of adolescents, spiraling some into depression. When dealing with major depression, antidepressants are often used to help the adolescent cope by creating a feeling of balance. There is debate on adolescents using antidepressants. Stephen Barlas reports in Psychiatric Times that antidepressants are found to cause “possible suicidal ideation and suicide attempts as side effects” (2006).
In 2008 the number of kids that reported the misuse of prescription drugs was 1 in 5 teens (Partnership Tracking Study [PATS], 2009). An increase from 2003’s estimated 2.3 million teens in the U.S. (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA], 2004). This has showed that out of the 1.7 million emergency room visits that over 700,000 involved prescription drugs (Drug Abuse Warning Network [DAWN], 2008). This problem with teens is very important because of two reasons, it can have severely impact on brain development during adolescence, (Compton & Volkow, 2005) and the misuse of prescription drugs before 16 may lead to more drug use later in life (SAMHSA, 2006). That is why there is so much concern with teens misusing prescription drugs is because of the long and short term medical problems it causes and how quickly the problem is growing in our