CONFLICTS BETWEEN YOUNGSTERS & PARENTS
DRUG ABUSE
TEENAGE PREGNANCY
CHILD ABUSE

SOME CHALLENGES FACED BY CHILDREN/ ADOLESCENTS

  1. Poverty
  2. Orphan hood/ Orphanism
  3. Single Parentism
  4. Separation/ Divorce of parents
  5. Guardian Influence
  6. Peer influence
  7. Teenage pregnancy/ Drug abuse
  8. Early sex, Early forced marriages/ defilement/ rape/ sexual abuse
  9. Female genital mutilation
  10. Hormonal changes in the young adult
  11. Sodomy
  12. Waywardness/ Maladjustment
  13. Puberty rites

Causes of Challenges

  1. Lack of gainful employment by parents
  2. Accidents by any means/ Terminal illnesses/ HIV aids
  3. Mental Illnesses
  4. Misunderstanding/ Mistrust/ Domestic violence.
  5. Terms of Guardianship
  6. Neglect of children
  7. Lack of Education
  8. Non-motivational factor/ Bad role model influence
  9. Unconducive environment

Panacea/ Solution

  1. Education
  2. Avoid separation/ Divorce (Parents)
  3. Parents should avoid domestic violence
  4. Beneficial negotiations with guardians
  5. Encourage parent/ children communication
  6. Abolish outmoded customary rites , female genital mutilation
  7. Peers of children should be monitored
  8. Adolescents girls should not marry out for financial gains
  9. Review of some customs and traditions
  10. Children’s disabilities of weaknesses should not be a highlighted Counseling

Effects

  1. Fear
  2. Mental torture
  3. Mistrust
  4. Aggressiveness
  5. Rebellion
  6. Timidity
  7. Backwardness
  8. Violence
  9. Revengefulness
  10. Liability syndrome

 

CONFLICTS BETWEEN YOUNGSTERS & PARENTS

What is a conflict: It is an argument or disagreement between two people or amongst a group.

What are the causes?

  1. Favoritism among siblings
  2. Lack of Transparency
  3. Undue Interference
  4. Lack of parental support
  5. Parents relation with children’s peers
  6. Manipulation of children
  7. Ignoring children’s opinions
  8. Wrong approach to issues
  9. Authoritative attitude
  10. Restriction
  11. Parental neglect

Effects of Conflicts

  1. Hatred
  2. Violence/ Aggressiveness
  3. Disrespect
  4. Promotion of social vices
  5. Broken homes/ Divorce
  6. Enemity
  7. Bickering
  8. Truancy
  9. Drug abuse
  10. Temporary withdrawal from home
  11. Waywardness

How to resolve conflicts

  1. Compromise
  2. Non-interference
  3. Strong parental support
  4. Embrace and advise children’s peers
  5. Make children responsible
  6. Children’s rights should be respected
  7. Communicate more with children

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DRUG ABUSE

What is Drug Abuse?

It is the wrong of medicine or narcotics, usually without prescription

What are the causes?

  1. Enhance health constitution
  2. Adventure: in the case of hard drugs
  3. Lack of parental guidance
  4. Lack of Education on the use of drugs.
  5. Higher Educational pursuit
  6. Environmental influence
  7. Idleness
  8. Ignorance
  9. Broken homes/ Divorce
  10. Peer influence
  11. Adventure/ Curiosity

Effects of Drug abuse

  1. Poverty/ financial drain
  2. School drop out
  3. Social misfit
  4. Mental disorders/ Death
  5. Teenage Pregnancy
  6. Maladjustment
  7. Broken homes/ Divorce
  8. Robbery
  9. Hooliganism
  10. Drug addiction/ Violence

Solution

  1. Discrimination
  2. Make good friends
  3. Enhance parental guidance
  4. Education on drug abuse
  5. Create a drug free environment
  6. Peers must be monitored closely
  7. Youngsters must be engaged in gainful activities

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TEENAGE PREGNANCY

What is Teenage Pregnancy?

It is a situation where a young girl (minor) below eighteen years becomes pregnant.

What are the causes?

  1. Poverty
  2. Peer influence
  3. Over protection
  4. Sophisticated life style
  5. Adventure
  6. Watching pornographic materials
  7. Lack of sex education
  8. Lack of parental guidance
  9. Environmental influence
  10. Idleness
  11. Ignorance
  12. Defilement

What are the effects?

  1. Financial drain
  2. School drop out
  3. Stigmatization
  4. Inferiority complex
  5. Health problems
  6. Infertility/ Death
  7. Rebellion
  8. Streetism

Solution

  1. Exposure
  2. Encourage income generation ventures
  3. Don’t over protect children
  4. Avoid separation/ Divorce
  5. Avoid expensive lifestyles/ Extravagance
  6. Promote sex education
  7. Enhance parental guidance
  8. Communication more with children
  9. Keep children busy and active

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CHILD ABUSE

What is Child Abuse?

It is the act whereby the child is taken undue advantage of the child is misused.

Kinds of Child abuse

  1. Child trafficking
  2. Child labour
  3. Violence against the child
  4. Denial of Education
  5. Trampling upon child’s freedom
  6. Defilement
  7. Manipulation
  8. Sexual assault
  9. Forced marriage at a very tender age
  10. Discrimination against children

 

Causes of Child Abuse

  1. Poverty
  2. Lack of parental guidance
  3. Broken homes/ Divorce
  4. Illiteracy
  5. Peer Influence
  6. Greed for money
  7. Ignorance
  8. Non chalant attitude of parents and relatives

 

Effects of child Abuse

  1. School drop outs
  2. Teenage pregnancy/ Drug abuse
  3. Terminal illnesses, leading to death.
  4. Timidity / Depression
  5. Rebellion
  6. Revengefulness
  7. Waywardness
  8. Drug addiction

 

SOLUTION

  1. Parents should avoid separation/ Divorce
  2. Enhance parental guidance
  3. Education
  4. Give love and affection to children
  5. Monitor peers of your wards/ children closely
  6. Be role models for children
  7. Communicate a lot with children
  8. Never under rate a child

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