Even now, in the 21st century, where life evolves around degrees and technology,
             society is still faced with elevated numbers of teens that withdraw from school before
             completing their high school education.
             Where does this gradual deterioration of these teens educational experience begin,
             Dropping out is a complex problem for which there is no simple solution. To
             understand the issue, one must travel deeper into the question at hand to furthermore
             identify the root of the reason. There are risk factors which may contribute in leading a
             student to abandon his/her education. Current employment standards do not tolerate the
             lack of education, which makes the future of most of these individuals unsuccessful. It
             would better to prevent future poverty and unemployment than it is to find a solution in
             It has long been recognized that children from disadvantaged families
             are more likely to drop out of school, than children from more privileged backgrounds.
             The reasons for these persistent findings have been unclear. Children in mono-parental
             Families are less likely to graduate from high school or obtain postsecondary schooling
             than children who grow up with both parents. Children who live with single parents and
             stepparents receive less encouragement and supervision than children in two-parent
             families. These differences in family composition help to explain the lower graduation
             rates of children in mono-parental families. Children from single parent families less
             often report that their parents expect them to obtain more schooling, monitor their
             schoolwork, or closely supervise their activities than do children who live with both
             There are two major categories of factors that contribute in leading students to
             dropout. The categories list risk factors that are school related and personally related. The
             likelihood of a student dropping out increases with the combination of th...