ARHIVELE OLTENIEI - Universitatea din Craiova

Functional deficiencies regarding the family and the juvenile delinquency 269human beings that need to be protected and guided. The children with thesefathers are often shy and inhibited, but they can manifest themselves as rebelsthrough aggressiveness, as an indirect way of reliving his/her feelings, throughacts oriented towards other people.The author characterizes the tiranic father as being a weak, shy personwho, as compensation has sporadic outbreaks of an aberrant authority. Theseparental attitudes devalorize the paternal model, inducing to the child inhibition,fear and instability moods.These conflicts on the spiritual level, along with the alternation of thefather’s behavior, can degenerate into profound lack of balance, with attempts ofending the conflict in evasion – the run away from home, vagabondage.L Berkovitz 9 considers that the attitude of the autocratic, tiranic fatherdetermines the apparition of a frustration feeling in the absence of the parentallove. Rejected by his/her father, or even maltreated by him, the child will learnto react aggressively, but the object of his/her aggressiveness won’t be the father(of whom he afraid), but all the people who have authority (in the school, in thepublic order).The disorganization of the family. We must not consider thedisorganization of the family as a causal factor of the juvenile delinquency, butonly when appearing mistakes at the level of children’s organization andeducation. The educational deficiencies from these families are manifesting inthe insufficient socialization or in the discordant one.A classification of the disorganized families was made by L.Parkinson 10 :- the incomplete united or illegitimate family;- the dismembered family after the moving off of one spouse, after thedivorce, the separation or the leaving;- the “empty home” family, where the partners are living together, withminimal inter-communications, without constituting an emotional support onefor another;- the family in a “crisis” for some causes that determine the temporaryor the permanent absence of one of the spouse (prison, death, depression,illness);- the existence inside the family of some situations which generates themarriage’s failure: severe mental retarding of the child, the child’s or spouse’spsychosis, incurable chronic physical conditions.Finding a possible relation between the disorganization of the familyafter the divorce and the child’s behavior perturbations, constituted a themeclosely studied by the specialists.House, p. 211.9 L. Berkovitz, Aggressive behavior, Mc Graw-Hill, New York, 1993, p. 213.10 L. Parkinson, Separarea, divorţul şi familia, Bucureşti, The Alternative Publishing