Female Delinquency

Female delinquency has obviously increased over the years. The main cause though is still yet to be determined. People often look at these girls and say that they are bad kids and need to be punished for what they are doing. But many people forget that there are many underlying issues that could be playing a part in why these girls are acting the way they are. People blame things on the person instead of the society surrounding the person. If a girl has grown up in a single parent home she is more likely to be more poor because of less income brought in. She will not have both a motherly influence or a fatherly influence and whichever one she has will be very mininmal because they are working to support her physically instead of being able to emotionally. Or she could be living in circumstances which put her in danger or she doesn't really have a good example to follow. The family has a big influence on how a girl will control her surroundings. Deinquent children more often than not come from poor areas. In Salt Lake these poor areas are very distinct. These poor areas are not surprisingly filled with more single parent homes, more drugs, more lower working class families, more crime, more failing education systems, etc. So if a child is not recieving the emotional family support they need, access to other forms of support are easy because there are other children doing through the same thing nearby. These forms of social systems turn into gangs which act out in ways that the law watches for. And they are sent into institution which might often treat the symptoms instead of the actuall cause of why these girls are acting out the way they are. They are good girls, just in a bad environment.