what is noted as proper parenting. Another conflict in regards to proper parenting is cultural differences which influences some to have different prospective on what is socially appropriate when raising children in the United States of America. Children that are raised in urban areas are subject to be disadvantaged due to the high crime rates, and structured racial differences. The parents of children that reside in urban areas often experience limited access to employment, and lack cognitive abilities to gain proper employment which leads them to be active in criminal activity in order to attempt to provide what they are forced to believe is a stable environment for their children. The growth of crime in urban neighborhoods creates residence isolation, drug use, sexual exploitation, teenage childbearing, mass incarceration of males, and violence. The youth in urban neighborhoods are left to model based off the negative influences of their parents and peers that encourages a cycle criminal behavior. There are limited resources that discourages crime within the inner-city. The youth of the urban community are subject to adapt to the criminal environment and demonstrate certain behaviors to protect their families, and property by carrying weapons and joining the neighborhood gang.
The adolescent males of urban communities are subject to be greatly negatively influenced by the fact of limited positive interaction and role modeling of adult males due to their untimely dismiss due to violence or incarceration.
Young men that are raised in the urban community are often left to be the head of the household, and sole provider. Women in urban communities are often left to raise children as single parents and in order to attempt to provide for their children they get on public assistance, seek irregular employment, or fall subject to engaging in criminal activity such as sexual exploitation. Parents that receive public assistance has been subject to use that source of income as a temporary threshold; while others use it as a primary source to provide for their families which leaves them to be idled majority of the month until the next disbursement is due to accommodate their needs. Individuals that spend majority of their time idled are subject to in nonconventional role modeling such as alcoholism, drug use and frequenting unhealthy environments. These such conditions influence crime, and disadvantage the children that are being raised in such environments. During this research issues concerning the disadvantage of the males, and youth of urban areas will be discussed by comparing studies conducted in regards to crime levels, the influence of crime rates, and community instability.
It is imperative to gain understanding of what contributes to cycle of crime
in the urban areas verses surrounding areas within the U.S. in order to provide the proper resources to better assist residence of the urban community to allow them the opportunity to better overcome the noted disadvantages.