Mike Males describes himself as a unconventional writer of youth issues, and is a researcher for the Justice Policy Institue. He wrote the Article "Stop Blaming Kids and TV" about kids behavior and television is really just a scapegoat of parental and adults problems. Crime and Violence is not a issue that popped up out of nowhere, it has been around forever and nobody wants to take the blame for it. So, children and television are really just a easy scapegoat since they cannot really defend themselves. It's easy for a parent to blame little Johny's behavior on that violent television show, but is that really the issue?
I think teens should not be tried as adults because they have not experienced how does the adult world works long enough to realize what they are doing. They should however be sentenced to work for the community so they can know and analyze what were their crimes consequences. In addition to the lost brain matter all the prosecutors and specially the government is setting severe sentenced to young adults. We should not punish them because reasons are to why we call children kids. We can not call them adults when they are not tried as one.
But is this right, should parents even, principals just blow bullying off like that? Maybe we've seen a bigger kid shoving a smaller kid around, or a girl with less money shunned because her clothes aren't nice enough or she doesn't live in the right neighborhood. Both situations involve bullying, and it's a serious problem in elementary and middle schools nationwide. Too often, we don't take bullying seriously. Young people who are bullied are more likely to skip school or completely drop out.
I literally didn't even know things like that existed till I got to intermediate school. So much of my personality and ethics come from my parents. One of the most important things I think my parents did was to not force religion into my life. Moreover, they did not equate being a moral person with being a religious one. This way, when my religion began to wane at times I never once felt like that meant I could just be a bad person.
It is just crazy to me to think that the drugs that these kids are being prescribed are causing them to commit acts of violence upon other people or do very crazy things. The documentary opened up with a teenager named Cory Baadsgard, who was apparently on the prescribed drug Paxil which caused him to have hallucinations. He discussed an incident in where he did not want to go to school and decided that he would go later in the day. The only thing that he remembered was waking up in a juvenile detention center and was told that he held hostages at gunpoint. In the documentary they also displayed the terrible Columbine shooting that occurred in which two teens took many lives and one of them was on prescription drugs as well.
Recently abandonment of children is a felony in most states and Benjamin's story clearly shows a crime. "The only common thread is that these people appear to be desperate and totally ignorant of what could be done for their babies," said Michael Kharfen, spokesman for the Administration for Children and Families (qtd. in Sussman). But parents refusal growing their infant shouldn't be approached as a crime if they voluntarily bring him to the
Violent Adolescents Annette Fuentes writes an interesting article called Crackdown on Kids. Fuentes wrote this article for the June 15/22 issue of The Nation. This article is about how we have neglected to see the real problem at hand with juvenile delinquents and how quick we as a society are to just throw them in detention facilities rather than solve the problems in a more effective manner. Fuentes wrote this article in response to the shooting sprees at a school in Jonesboro, Arkansas. On March 24, 1998, three boys, ages 11, 13, and 15, unloaded a slew of mini arsenals and were responsible for the deaths of four students and a teacher.
For example, if a parent would take the minor to the police and fire department for intentionally lighting fires in the house. The child may do this for many reasons and may not realize the dangers. If the parent has talked with the juvenile and is still doing it, go to the next step. Specific deterrence sends condemned offenders to protected custody so that punishment is harsh enough to persuade juveniles not to repeat the criminal acts. (Siegel & Walsh, 2005).
Not too many schools use corporal punishment anymore because they are scared of being sued by a parent. The schools that do use corporal punishment usually use a smack on the hand or even a spanking on the child’s bottom. A. Supporting Evidence Prof. Victoria Talwar of McGill University and Prof. Kang Lee of the University of Toronto, performed an experiment with 63 kindergarten’s and first graders at two African private schools. At one school they used corporal punishment and at the other they used time outs and verbal reprimands.
Children can also get mental problems because of spanking such as killing themselves. Children start to think about why they were born and asking themselves if they should live in a world where they just get spanked all the time. Therefore, parents who spank their children should change their minds about spanking their children. Spanking children is not a good way to discipline them because children will have bad relationships with parents and other people. For example, children who are usually spanked by their parents have problems with them because of spanking, so children will become more aggressive with other people who are around them.