ESSAY 2

Recent figures show an increase in violent crime among youngsters under the age of 18. Some psychologists claim that the basic reason for this is that children these days are not getting the social and emotional learning they need from parents and teachers.

The increasing crime is an absolute cause for worry, not only for parents and teachers but also for society in general. That will be even more scarier to acknowledge the fact that the increase happened mostly in teenager age-group. Most people related this trend to the lack of social and emotional learning for the adolescent. However, in my view, it is possible that other factor such as unhappiness with the family and the government can also be a significant cause.

The lack of social and emotional learning basically points to how people are raised. They are, most commonly, brought up by parents and teachers. Everyone will spend some time in their family, and the rest will be spent with friends at school. Both parents and teachers may fail to answer the need of a certain child. However, this is only a good answer for a particular incident where the kid felt isolated and could not relate socially and emotionally with other people surrounding him/her. But is it really the answer for more than a million crimes? I think we need to look at other possible causes.

I would argue that it is likely for a significant number of teenagers to feel unhappy with their current situation. They might do well at school, good at most of the subjects, but still they have no real sense of purpose to exist in this world. In the world where people measure others by the amount of worldly treasure that they have, good education and good personality tend to be marginalized. These teenagers, who feel that they have nothing to lose, will start to act according to what they believe. In other words, they react to the world around them. I think it is safe to say that current system of the world these days frustrates and depresses a lot of people.

Teenagers are in the vulnerable period of their life. Of course, they need good guidance and communication. However, parents and teachers are not always suitable to give advice because they cannot win the heart of the teenager itself. Rich parents are usually hated because they work too much while poor parents are usually hated because they tend to be lazy or the father might be an alcoholic bum who is useless as a breadwinner. Teachers are not very different. It is so rare that a teacher can earn respect from their students. In this case, most teenagers do not have a role model that they need.

To sum up, I believe that if we really mean to solve the problem of crimes done by teenagers, the first solution is to make ourselves worthy of communication. Parents and teachers cannot communicate with teenagers as long as they enforce their worldly view to them and not treating them like an adult.

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