LACK OF PARENTAL SUPERVISION

As life continues, there are people who will not accept the fact that they have
responsibilities. Some parents want to have a child or two but are unsophisticated enough to
manage one. The unfit parents might be financially unstable, homeless, or careless. A child of an
unfit parent may be feeling broken-hearted and confused. A lack of parental supervision can
impact a childs behavior and cause the child to have emotional distress and anger. It can
also lead to the child getting involved with the wrong crowd or cause a disconnect or divide
between parent and child. Parents are supposed to love and care for their children in any
circumstances no matter what the situation might be.
A lack of parental supervision occurs when a parent knows a child is incapable of being
on his own and is still not there for him. This can occur when a parent is absent from the home.
For example the parent may be going out to a party or a club for more than 3 or 4 hours, and the
child may be doing self-harm. He might be too young to know what emergencies are. A parent
could try to stop the child from completing the task if the parent was present. This is called
neglect. Neglect occurs when a parent leaves their kids unattended. According to adolescents and
the importance of parental supervision. It has been clear for years that adolescents whose
parents monitor and are aware of their activities participate in fewer risky behaviors (1). It is
important for the parent to monitor their kids because the child can get into a serious accident.
Parents who fail to discipline their offspring properly or lack providing proper
supervision are creating a generation of angry children who lash out in the classroom. Kids are
twice as likely to be aggressive and disruptive if they had parents who were violent, critical or
inconsistent in what they allowed them to get away with at home (Clark). The kids may get
violent because the parent is not showing enough attention towards the child.

Children tended to be better behaved if their parents combined warmth with clear and consistent
rules and boundaries (Paulson 2015).
Children are emotionally hurt from being neglected. Emotional abuse is when the parent
overlooks the child as an human and treats him\her as an animal. The effects of emotional abuse
will stay with children the rest of their lives . Think if you were that child being abused. Even
though children may cause minor damages, such as breaking something or stealing things, it does
not mean the children would know any better. While that child is remembering what the parent
physically has done to him/her they are are still emotionally scarred because the child feels as
there is no spontaneous affection being attached to their hearts. If the parent destroys that child's
mind he/she is not going to know how to react. The child might be scared because the parent may
yell or say hurtful words. At times it may seem that these tragedies are happening elsewhere and
not in our own neighborhoods. However, child abuse and neglect often occurs when the child is
wandering off, and the parents has lost all humanity for their child safety. Kids may wonder off
to cry to themselves or might not talk to someone about the situation. If the parent open up their
eyes, they will cry of need that the child may wants, That does not require you to give your child
a toy and walk away, take time out your day to bond with your child.
Individuals across the country have become increasingly aware that children are dying
because of abuse and neglect right in their own communities and at the hands of the people
responsible for their care. In 2012, child protective services agencies received approximately
3.4 million referrals, involving an estimated 6.3 million children, alleging abuse or neglect.
Based on investigation, states reported that an estimated 1,710 unique children were
victims of abuse or neglect in 2012.

Neglect was the most common type of maltreatment (experienced by 78.3 percent of
victims), followed by physical abuse (18.3 percent), sexual abuse (9.3 percent), psychological
maltreatment (8.5 percent), and medical neglect (2.3 percent; Figure 1). About 10 percent of
victims experienced other types of maltreatment including abandonment, threats of harm, or
congenital drug addiction. Children may have experienced more than one type of maltreatment.
In 2013, an estimated 1,540 children died as a result of abuse or neglect. (Child Health USA)

In 2014, state agencies identified an estimated 1,430 children who died as a result of abuse and
neglect between four and five children a day

http://mchb.hrsa.gov/chusa14/health-status-behaviors/children/child-abuse-neglect.html

Additionally for the parents who are not watching their children should be informed that
their kids are experiencing sexual contact an early age. Adolescents whose mothers were teens
when they first gave birth are more likely to initiate sexual activity at an early age. In 1995, the
percent of adolescents age 14-17 years who had intercourse before age 18 differed by mothers
age at first birth. 28.4 percent of girls with mothers who first gave birth before age 20 were
sexually active before age 15 compared to 13.5 percent of girls born to mothers who first gave
birth at age 20 or older. 29.5 percent were sexually active before age 16 compared to 16.2
percent of boys born to be fathers who first gave birth age 20 or older.
https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/us_teens.pdf, The reason that has been said is because, Parents
often send their children off somewhere and that child is wondering what it would be like if
he\she were an adult.
Poor supervision of childrens activities can be the result of a mothers suffering
depression were also linked to bad behavior because once that parent has given up on life and
feel as if they made the wrong choice, by a mother bad depression could lead to self harm or
harm to the child. Researchers were unable to rule out the argument that irritating children were
themselves to blame for evoking harsher parenting. A whole range of studies has shown the
causal effect is there too, and that harsh parenting trains children to become anti-social. These
children were at risk of underperforming at school and even turning to crime and drug or alcohol
abuse. http://www.dailymail.co.uk. Mothers who were less educated and had lower incomes were
more likely to resort to negative parenting.
Earlier this month, a Berks County, Pennsylvania, mother died in jail while serving a 48-hour
sentence (48 consecutive hours jail time, 6-month maximum sentence), handed down because

she couldn't pay her children's truancy fines. She owed about $2,000 in fines and other court
costs, which had piled up over more than a decade(The Guardian, Nadja Popovich, 2014).

A child may be left hungry or dirty, without clothing, shelter, supervision, medical or
health care. He/she may be put in danger or not protected from physical, emotional harm. They
may not get the love, care and attention they need from their parents. An estimated 1,520
children died from abuse and neglect, and 74 percent of these children were younger than 3 years
old. More than 46 percent of children who die from abuse and neglect every year are under a
year old. While it is often assumed that children who die from maltreatment are physically
abused, in 2013, 71 percent had been neglected, either exclusively or in combination with
another form of abuse.
Some children who died from abuse or neglect were already known to child protective
services (CPS) agencies. In 31 states, the children whose families CPS tried to keep intact during
the past five years accounted for 11.6 percent of child fatalities in 2013. In 37 states, 3.1 percent
of children who died from abuse or neglect had been in foster care and were reunited with their
families in the past five years. Over 91% of perpetrators of child maltreatment were parents
acting alone, together, or with other individuals. (Childrens Right 2013).

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October 2015 http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/136/4/76.

Clark,Laura. The angry generation: Lack of parental discipline is blamed for aggressive
and anti-social children. Daily Mail. February 27 2012. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article2106948/The-angry-generation-Lack-parental-discipline-blamed-aggressive-anti-socialchildren.html

Child Abuse and Neglect. Child Health 2014. 2014 http://mchb.hrsa.gov/chusa14/healthstatus-behaviors/children/child-abuse-neglect.html

Frost, Jennifer.Teenage Sexual and Reproductive Behavior in Developed. November 2001

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Dead victim's Snapchat video from INSIDE Florida gay club captures the terrifying
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Popovich, Nadja. Do US laws that punish parents for truancy keep their kids in school?
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