Abstract
Children are the unpolished diamonds of the human society, who need experienced hands to mold them into a precious diamonds. It is the parents who rope the seeds of goodness into a child as a gardener rope the plants into the soil. A child’s heart is like an empty slate, for once the imprints are drawn, will stay there forever and play the most effective role in the foundation of a child’s character. Parents should up bring their children with love, care, affection and proper guidance. Ignoring or punishing a child during early childhood, will surely lead him on the path of delinquency. Therefore, parenting is such a phenomena that not only affect the mental and psychological well being of a child but also affects his/her course of action. This paper will provide a proper definition of bad parenting, signs of bad parenting, impact of bad parenting with the help of previous researches and will guide the parents how children should be treated so that they should remain away from delinquency. Suggestions for effective parenting will be discuss in the later part of this paper.
Highlights
Parenting is often considered as the root cause of juvenile delinquency by educationalists, theorists, social workers, mental health professionals and criminologists
A number of studies has been conducted to find out the correlation between bad parenting and child delinquency and concluded that bad parenting is frequently considered as the root cause of future child offending and children who have experienced bad parenting during their childhood days are more prompt to violent crimes
Meaning of Bad Parenting: Bad parenting does not refer to a particular behavior or action but it is a chain of destructive acts that may damage the overall well-being of a child into the most harmful way
Summary
Children are the unpolished diamonds of the human society, who need experienced hands to mold them into a precious diamonds. Many studies have been conducted to understand the role of bad parenting in juvenile delinquency (see, Gottfredson and Tonry, 1997[6]; Farrington, 1979[4]). Researcher like, Farrington (1979)[4] on the bases of his longitudinal study provided a productive ground for exploring and assessing the factors related to improper or bad parenting that are responsible for delinquent behavior among children.
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