Impact of Home Environment on Adolescents
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2011
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This paper highlights the importance of home environments on adolescents. The world is
passing through a great crisis in almost all spheres of life. Delinquency among adolescents
all over the world has reached an alarming proportion as to become a cause of concern. The
changes in lifestyles, family patterns and environment as a result of, industrialization,
urbanization and modernization have contributed to the growth of delinquency rates.
Environment includes all the factors, human and others, to which the individual is exposed
from his birth -parents, family, friends, surrounding, school, socio-economic conditions. .
Environments act as a moulding and shaping agency, playing a vital role in nurturing the
future life of an individual. Nature tells us one theory, that a tree grows from its roots, its
strength depends on how deep the roots have gone. Likewise, the type of environment found .
at home plays a very important role in determining values, a^iration, problems, cognitive,
emotional and social development of children. Home is the first socializing agent, value .
indicator and the most effective one too. Children will pick up all the desirable social norms
and undesirable social norms from their home environment; A child’s relationship to the
universe can be more meaningful if he develops appropriate moral values, ideals and
philosophy of life. No child can grow in a vacuum. He needs all the elements in this
environment to help him to grow, to develop, to become complete and, in short, to possess
integrity.