ARHIVELE OLTENIEI - Universitatea din Craiova

Functional deficiencies regarding the family and the juvenile delinquency 267affective development is a difficult process, and the delay of this developmentit’s critical and could generate social repercussions that depend, mostly, on theage on which is installed the new type of relationships.The absence or the insufficiency of the parent’s authority is a deficiencyalmost as important as the affective one: the authority is as indispensable informing the child’s personality for the future social adaptation as the affectivity is.The parent’s authority deficiency could have many causes:- Not enough time spent with the parents within the family.- The insufficient ascendancy over the children, regarding both theintellectual level and the inappropriate behavior, especially that referring to thefather, and the educational methods used in this case.- The lack of unity of opinion between the parents regarding the aimsand the methods of education in the family, which usually find expression in theunjust way of disciplining (weak or chaotic) by using inadequate methods(corporal punishments).In most of the cases there isn’t any program of family recreation. Theminors organize the spare time by themselves, without any guidance or controlof the parents. They don’t know the group of friend of the minor, his/herpreoccupations, the way he/she manages the spare time, the frequency and thetype of entertainment he/she prefers, what he/she reads. Even when the parentsare well grounded and we might assume a greater educational competence, thelack of preoccupation and a high degree of commodity, lead to the situationwhen the child is not enough supervised and the time accorded to him/her isinsufficient, compensating these with a precocious assigning and without anyprevious preparation of an excessive liberty. The generosity when offering giftsand pocket money shows external signs which indicate a false affection and afalse interest.The familial factors involved in the socialization of the minors andyoung people constitute a primary cause in order to determine the delinquencywith the help of the educational requests from the family, which favor themaladaptation and the disadaptation of the young people. We present somefamilial educational climate typologies which affect the evolution of the youth.The divergence of the educational methods and the parent’s lack ofauthority. The way the parents understand each other matters for the harmoniousdevelopment of the youth. The divergence in opinions between the parents,regarding the disciplinary methods and the educational punishments, confuse andunbalance the children in understanding and respect the discipline and the rules.The divergent positions of the parents when allowing the children to docertain things, if they are dragged on a long period of time, can act as elementsof confusion for the children and can, finally, release the predisposition for thedelinquency 6 .House, p.113.6 R. Vincent, Cunoaşterea copilului, Bucureşti, The Didactic and Pedagogic Publishing