Is the childhood the base and the foundation to an individual's success or failure in the future? How? Who? When? Where? These could all be the first words to many questions that one can ask regarding the status of an individual's childhood. How was the child brought up? Who raised the child? When did this child grow up? Where did this child spend most of his/her childhood? The answers to these questions all contribute to the future of the child and his/her status in society at the present time or the future. As a result, the base and foundation consists of everything the child must endure and experience as a child, until becoming a teenager.
             During the period where children mature into teenagers, they are said to be the easiest to influence. Therefore, when children are growing to become teenagers, they tend to admire their parents and lean on them for support and guidance, but most importantly, love. When a parent fails to give the support, guidance, and love, the child is neglected. As a result, the child searches for the love and care elsewhere. There can be many places and a variety of people where the child may retrieve the love, but many results in other children with the same problems. A sense of belonging and a sense of security are what drives the children to come together and create their own family, rather a gang. This is just the beginning of a lifelong journey, which may end in a young child being incarcerated, detained, or even worse, death. For the child to become a normal and law-abiding citizen, let alone successful, the base and foundation must not only be present but be consisting of strength and unity.
             One of the most important issues in crime today is Juvenile Delinquency. Juvenile delinquency is and has been rapidly increasing in the past few years. To fully understand the question of who, where, when, how, and why adolescents are becoming delinquents, it is necessary to first understand the ...