The Breakdown of The Family Structure and It's Effect on ..

The Breakdown of The Family Structure And It’s Affect On Adolescent Learned Aggression In the last few years, there has been a significant increase in the awareness of the causes of adolescent aggression. Recently, there have been many school shootings, gang violence, drug abuse, and date rapes that are associated with the younger population. The number of violent acts committed by children increase every day. Attribution to these growing statistics can be placed upon …

…nanny or the television, which subsequently has become the “in house teacher” for most American households. Aggressive behaviors are learned, we cannot teach the children more pro-social behavior while we have both parents at work all day long. We need to put less emphasis on economic status and more on child welfare. Until we do this and turn society into the right direction, children will continue to be products of media violence, and family neglect.