However, the problem of juvenile delinquency is not peculiar to Nigeria. It is appalling that the worrisome issue of juvenile delinquency still plagues the contemporary Nigerian society in a serious dimension (Muhammed, Salami ,Adekeye,Ayinla and Adeoye,2009). This ugly trend led to the establishment of judicial administrative process by the colonial administrators to deal with juvenile delinquents (Four chard, 2006). The origin of juvenile delinquency in Nigeria dates back to the 1920s when youth crime such as pick pocketing and prostitution became predominant issues in Nigerian newspapers in that period. The structure of the family plays a large role in children’s experiences and the support they receive in the home. family adaptability, cohesion, and satisfaction, provides more information for understanding youth behavior (Cashwell&Vacc 1996).Ĭohesiveness of the family successfully predicts the frequency of delinquent act as for non traditional families (Matherne& Thomas 2001).įamily behaviors particularly parental monitoring and disciplining seem to influence association with deviant peers throughout the adolescent period (Cashwell&Vacc 1994). Understanding the nature a relationships within the family, i.e. According to Wright and Wright (1994), the family is the foundation of human society.Ĭhildren who are rejected by their parents, who grow up in homes with considerable conflict or who are inadequately supervised are at the greatest risk of becoming delinquent.Īdolescence is a time of expanding vulnerabilities and opportunities that accompany the widening social and geographic exposure to life beyond school or family. The term ‘family’ includes: a one-person household, that is, a persons who live alone in a separate housing unit alongside his wife and children. Similarly, Murdock (1949) postulated that such an institution is university and functionally necessary because it performs those primary functions fundamental to human and social life.Ī family is defined as ‘two or more persons within a private or institutional household who are related as husband and wife, as cohabiting partners, or as parent and child (IJNECE, 2005:3). The family is universally regarded as the most sacred of the institutions and it is held so in the society. The other institutions have only slowly emerged from the family and have for a long time been dependent on the family. The family provides the individual with an identity, with a social and with economic well-being. The family can be described as the basic unit, since it embraces all forms of interaction between individuals.Īpart from the importance of the family to the members of the society, it serves as a semi-originator or controller of the existing institution the social system, because without people who make up the society, there will be no existing social institution. Family remains the life wire of any society (Werwoc, 1974). It is a great circle where all moral of life is transmitted. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.From the creation of man, family has been the basic unit of social organization. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations.
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