any children emerge "under socialized" and "under supervised." Of all the negative influences that have affected gang members, the roots are found within below average economic situations. The people with less than adequate paying jobs are more inclined to poverty and thus subjected to more afflicted ways of life. Youth living these impoverished lives in lower class areas are more prone to joining gangs because they face it everyday. Poverty has a cumulative effect, and that burden feels the heaviest on the shoulders of the youngest and weakest children. In situations where children are in neither a good family nor have a stable financial situation, nor well supervised, it is very easy for them to divert to gangs. In a society where more than 57% of children do not have the necessary full-time supervision they need, these children tend to fulfill their desire to be part of a family by joining gangs. Often gangs offer protection and acceptance to ghetto youths that come from broken homes with little security. It has been proved that there is a correlation between the status of an individual's family, and the higher chance that individual has of joining a gang. "Key informants in this study who were regular gang members were fou
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