Week 5 Assignment

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This skill-based program will help parents learn different skills to help their children during the divorce or separation process. As parents confront the challenges of divorce, they often use their children to manipulate and or control one another around personal, financial, or social issues. These are things that will often increase the stress and anxiety experienced by the child. This in return can increase risk for behavior problems, depression, delinquency, substance use, teen pregnancy, school failure/dropout, and suicide.

Risk Factors that can push your child to becoming delinquent.

· Going from a two parent household to a one parent household

· Depression

· Lack of a role model

· Lack of trust

· Responsibility shift

· Teen pregnancy

How are these linked to Juvenile Delinquency?

· When there is only one parent they tend to work more, resulting in them being around less leaving juveniles unsupervised

· Depression often leads to drugs, and substance abuse which results in criminal behaviors

· Lack of a role model or lack of relationship with same parent lead to social issues

· Lack of trust will result to turning to the wrong crowd or unhealthy relationships which can result in violence and criminal behavior

· When parents separate/divorce juveniles can feel responsible feeling they need to do more and are only able to through criminal behavior

· Teen pregnancy can lead to criminal behavior as a result of lack of education and need to supply to their baby

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