Drug addiction causes young people to drop out of school, and it makes parents lose interest in their children. It pushes people into lives of crime and poverty, destroys ambition and ruins lives. Drug dealing brings crime and violence to otherwise peaceful communities, and makes people feel helpless and afraid in their own home towns (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/drugs/). The link between drug use and crime is not an original one and there are various questions to be asked when considering the drugs and crime link, the first and maybe the most confusing question is, do drugs cause crime or does criminality come first? (Hayles, 2000:78) investigates these using three methods of investigation.
When looking at the parent or talking to them they seem to be apathetic to very depressed. They feel as if the only way to feeling anything is to make the child feel just as miserable as they are. In a lot of parents there seems to be a lot of drugs and alcohol use. They also behave in a bizarre manner. As in sudden out bursts or even lashing out on a child in public.
These effects can be long-lasting and extremely damaging. Divorce often results in many changes in children's living situations such as changing schools, child care, homes, etc. Children of divorced parents are more likely to use drugs and alcohol this is probably a misguided attempt to cope with the stress that often accompanies divorce and end up not having a good performance at school. There is an equivalents found between children of divorce and social skills. They have more difficulties trusting other people unconditionally and tend to have less social contacts.
Why Americans Fear The Wrong Things 1. Some examples of supporting evidence that Americans fear the wrong things are school shootings, illegal drug abuse among teenagers, and unfounded health fears current or future. School shootings are very isolated events, illegal drug abuse has dropped vastly in the past decade, and health fears over refuted dangers hyped by the mass media are all unwarranted fears that are misplaced focuses of attention. 2. There are many costs of having misplaced fears.
Underaged drinking is a social issue and causes many problems from learning problems to alcoholism. Alcohol is a depressant and people tend to fall back on it in times of trouble. I can’t figure out why person’s under the age of twenty-one want to drink alcohol. Is it to get acceptance from their peers? Or is it to relax and sit back after a bad day?
E. Preview: In this speech, I’m going to explain how bullying affects people mentally, physically and emotionally and state two positive coping methods and two negative coping methods. II. Body: A. I will begin discussing how it affects people emotionally. * People consider attempting suicide. * People become depressed.
The “Darkness” of Children's Literature Darkness, brutality, violence, disillusionment, are these the words that come to mind when the topic of children’s literature arises? There is much debate today on whether or not children’s literature is too “dark” for its intended audience. Some define “dark” as those words mentioned above while others believe that anything that doesn’t leave a child happy and smiling signifies “darkness”. As Andrew Levy (2007) stated in his article “Campaigning parents plan to burn children’s books with grisly endings”, “Children’s books that don’t have happy endings should be banned, it was claimed yesterday”. Darkness is part of our everyday lives; while every child will react differently to “dark” stories they should not be protected from the realities of life; they should be exposed and educated about those realities.
Can sex education survive the pressure of media involvement and peer pressure? It is say that ever since the sexual revolution of the 60’s the decline in moral values, addictions, alcoholism, and crime has increase dramatically to proportions underestimate by researchers and psychologist. Media depiction of real sexual relations and real life experiences of youth contributes to their difficulties in making healthy sexual decisions. Sex education in schools does not work unless peer pressure and bullying is stopped. Mass media, television, music, magazines, movies and internet have become more and more of sex educator leaving schools and religious organization behind and young people all over United States vulnerable to risky and unhealthy decisions.
That is because sexual education isn’t taught in schools – it’s left up to parents to teach their kids about the importance of abstinence and condoms. Most parents do, but, alas, most parents do not. There is no argument against the school system existing to prepare youths for adulthood. The inescapable reality is that sexuality is a part of adult life, and many may do it because they see their friends doing it (peer pressure), or they see it on TV or hear it in songs. It is a common belief that many people believe sexual education urges youths to experiment with their sexualities.
When is a Marriage Harmful to Children? The fact that divorce is harmful to children is undisputed throughout society however is divorce really a negative choice? Can it be a positive one for both the parents and the children? Society has the notion, and various research has proven, that children who are raised in a divorced family environment are more likely to struggle when building relationships of their own and are more likely to get divorced themselves. These children are more prone to have battles with depression during their adolescent years and continue these struggles into adulthood.