Child abuse and neglect, how do these contribute to delinquency? In both these cases, the child is the victim. Does this mean victims are more likely to become offenders? Well, it could be. And, not really. Evidence shows that childhood abuse is linked to delinquency and adult crime.

Child abuse and neglect, how do these contribute to delinquency? In both these cases, the child

 

is the victim. Does this mean victims are more likely to become offenders? Well, it could be.

 

And, not really. Evidence shows that childhood abuse is linked to delinquency and adult crime.

 

Abuse can cause psychological problems and social deficits, which both contribute to antisocial

 

behaviors. When abuse is a part of a person’s life, it becomes the norm. When it becomes the

 

norm, it becomes acceptable. Simply put, hurting others doesn’t appear to be a bad thing. It’s

 

what happens, what supposed to happen. For some young people, it’s what parents do. Here

 

is where I love to jump into my stories. A kid I worked with kid who had a family who took an

 

interest in him and took him in providing him with a very nice alternative to his life. After a

 

short time, he left their home to back to his home and family. When I asked him why he left, he

 

explained to me that he was uncomfortable and couldn’t understand why they were being so

 

nice to him. “Mr. G, my mom would beat me and even threw a hot iron at me. She did this to

 

me and she loves me. It scares me that that they are being so nice to me. Why are they doing

 

this?” To him, if they loved him, or even cared about him, they wouldn’t be so nice to him. To

 

him, abusive behavior equated to love. What is sad, is if that cycle isn’t broken, how do you

 

think he will show love to his own kids? The good thing is that in these cases, the cycle of abuse

 

can be mitigated if the victim develops supportive relationships with nonabusive adults and

 

peers. This family did not give up on him, and today he is a wonderful father.

 

I worked with another young man whose mother called me one day to tell me that she walked

 

in on him in the bathroom where he had his much younger brother with him forcing the little

 

brother to out his penis in the brother’s mouth. Naturally CPS got involved and the kid was

 

forced to live with another family member or the “victim” would have to be removed from the

 

home. I arranged for him to live with the paternal grandparents. The kid wasn’t thrilled with

 

this telling me his grandfather was too strict. As a probation officer, I didn’t see a problem with

 

this. Strict supervision in this case was not a bad thing. Every week the kid would call me

 

complaining about the grandfather; “he doesn’t give me my own time,” “ He doesn’t let me

 

walk to school, he drives me there every day. I don’t want him to drive me to school.” Again, I

 

saw no problem with this level of supervision. Weeks later, the mother called me to let me

 

know her son called her and told her that he wanted share something with her that he knew he

 

should have told her long ago; he had been sexually abused. He wouldn’t tell her who it was,

 

but he told her he would tell me. She quickly said she knew it was going to be her brother who

 

had been dishonorably discharged from the armed services for molesting his daughter. Ai met

 

with her son and he shared that it was his grandfather. The same man to I was telling him it

 

was good for him to live with. When I shared that with the mother, she sat back in shock and

 

said, “I remember when I left my daughter with him once as a toddler, and when I got back, he

 

was coming out of the bathroom with her. I asked him why he had her in there with him and

 

said he had to go to the restroom and didn’t want to leave her alone. I should have known

 

better.” I called the kid’s father, who identified as a rage-aholic, to let him know what the kid

 

had reported. After a moment of silence, the father said, “That SOB never stopped.” This poor

 

kid, abusive history on both sides of the family. A cycle.

 

I have several stories that include kids being physically and/or sexually abused or neglected.

 

Another kid whose mother’s husband would carry him and deliver to the husband’s brother to molest. He told me how he remembers call out to his mother and hearing her laugh. We know

 

that most kids in our system have suffered some form of trauma. We actually assess for

 

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to determine a young person’s risk level. Or, their risk to

 

reoffend. What we know is the greater number of ACEs, the higher the risk to reoffend.

 

Again, this is not the case with all young people who have suffered this. For some, this

 

experience gives them the drive to be different from their own parents, swearing they will

 

never be the same kind of parent theirs was. As I write this, I remember when I was young,

 

there were many times I would think, “when I am a parent, I will never do this.” Of course, the

 

things I was protesting are those things that good parents do. And as a parent, I found myself

 

doing those exact same things as my father. And that is because I came to realize that was the

 

right approach. When young people grow up with the wrong approaches, abuse, they have to

 

come to terms that that was not the best approach. That was not the acceptable norm. and

 

when they do that, they are able to break that cycle.

 

Now, for your assignment. Tell me as much as you can about ACEs (Adverse Childhood

 

Experiences.) What are these? Why is important to identify these? What are your experiences

 

with ACEs, with yourself or with people you know?

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