Toxic Parenthood and Drug Usage among Kids
Toxic parenthood leads to juvenile delinquency, mostly the usage of drugs. Parenting stress toxicchild abuse is a significant cause of the use of drugs among children—behavior displayed by parents’ behavior when not just causes emotional harm to a child. Most toxic parents are highly violent, which causes a child to seek comfort somewhere else, leading most of them to delinquent behavior, apparently using drugs.
The best way to find out this information is through offender surveys. Upon being rehabilitated, most kids will open up and give reasons why they got into drugs in the first place. Therefore, working with the offenders’ information back to the family composition will guide us in finding out whether toxic parenthood is the root cause of drug abuse among kids.
In as much as the offenders are in a way still victims considering the family they come from, the process of trying to get comfort from elsewhere encourages them to use alcohol. Children living with parents using drugs are often diagnosed with anxiety disorders and depression themselves. Parents lose their sense of morality and step over boundaries they are not supposed to cross.
From the age of thirteen, children mostly start understanding life and distinguish between right and wrong. As they grow older, the toxic environment at home leads them into childhood trauma. To escape from their social trauma through their friends, they get introduced into drugs to forget or process their problems. This deviation is also a way of them trying to fit into society.