The rise in the number of children and adolescents who exhibit problematic behaviors : Augmentation des comportements problématiques chez les enfants et les adolescents : causes multiples

In turn, these behaviours are more likely to be activated when the extra- The rise in the number of children and adolescents who exhibit problematic behaviors: Multiple Causes 7 The Vanier Institute of the Family familial environment contributes added risk factors, such as poverty and neighborhood vio- lence (Rutter et al., 2006). [...] Parents have been muzzled by professionals, intimidated by peer The rise in the number of children and adolescents who exhibit problematic behaviors: Multiple Causes 11 The Vanier Institute of the Family group influence on their children, and brainwashed by the media. [...] We now turn to some of the extra-familial factors behind the increase in problematic behaviours in children since 1960s.xiv PEERS After the 1950s, several changes in the character of peer groups are evident and these too are implicated in the rise of problematic behaviours. [...] In contrast, children living in traditional villages of Africa and many Asian and Latin American countries are well integrated in the life of the community and in their parents' world, including the world of work, which is, in many of these traditional societies, still based around patterns of kinship and family interaction. [...] The rise in the number of children and adolescents who exhibit problematic behaviors: Multiple Causes 15 The Vanier Institute of the Family Many parents make it a point of knowing their children's friends' parents.