Parents contribute largely to juvenile delinquency???

What is juvenile delinquency?
Juvenile delinquency refers to the violation of a criminal law by a juvenile. A juvenile is anyone under age eighteen. If a juvenile has committed an act that would be a crime if committed by an adult, then the juvenile has committed juvenile delinquency. Moreover, juvenile delinquency includes acts that are legal for adults. These acts are called status offenses because they are illegal only for people with the status of being a juvenile. Whereas crimes consist of such acts as murder and rape (which are illegal for both juveniles and adults), examples of status offenses are running away from home and truancy (which are illegal only for juveniles).

Family factors such as family size and crowding; economic and social factors such as the economic status of the house and the structure of the family; socio-psychological factors transmission of delinquent attitudes and the role of discipline; and cultural factors such as the role of social class in patterns of rearing, and the influence of ethnic group upon the solidarity of family structure. The importance of any single one of these as an agency in juvenile delinquency may be minimal; it is the cumulative impact of a large number of these factors that constitutes the multiple causation patterns and at the same time, the complex treatment problem of the delinquent situation.

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