Of all the institutions that have come down to us from the past none is in present day so disorganized as the family. Recently, highly advanced technology and sudden change in social structure have accelerated family disorganization. And yet family di...
Of all the institutions that have come down to us from the past none is in present day so disorganized as the family. Recently, highly advanced technology and sudden change in social structure have accelerated family disorganization. And yet family disorganization is maid to be one root cause of many deviant behaviors including juvenile delinquency. In America they are described as drugs and alcohol abuse, drops out, teen pregnancy, teen suicide and teen sex etc.
We are also being faced with these difficult problems in korea.
Therefore, the followings are the concrete problems suggested in this study. The first question is what kind of family pathologies pause various deviant behaviors including juvenile crimes. The second is what can be the therapy for deviant behavior due to family pathology.
2. Theoretical approaches to deviant behavior dealt with in the present study include ① biological theory ② psychoanalytic theory ③ behaviorism ④ phenomenological theory ⑤ control theory ⑥ anomie theory ⑦ conflict theory ⑧ differential association theory ⑨ labeling theory.
3. Family variables were categorized into single parent family, poor family, mother's employment outside the home, parental rejection, family conflict and parental control-deficit family and what etiology of the family variables cause deviant behavior were searched out in the present study.
When the effect of each of the family variables was examined while controlling for the others, only parental rejection demonstrated significant associates with deviant behavior.
It suggested that single parent family, mother's employment outside the home, family conflict and parental control-deficit family have been relevant to deviant behavior only when their factors are mediated by parental rejection.
In short the results of the present analysis suggested that the predominent causal flow is from parental rejection to deviant behavior.
Accordin91y mast heavy emphasis should be placed on the emotional bond between parent and child according to Hirschi's social control theory.
Second, adolescent treatment programs including family therapy component is proposed. In this case parent involvement, understanding and concern for their deviant children should be promoted.
Third, socio-environmental factors which encourage parental indifference and hostility should be modified and eliminated.