CJS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Tunxis Community College, Working Poor
8 Dec 2020
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Decent families: tend to accept mainstream values more fully and attempt to instill them in their children. Decent parents tend to be strict in their child-rearing practices, encouraging children to respect authority and walk a straight moral line. They are generally working poor and so tend to be better off financially than their street-oriented neighbors. Because they have a certain amount of faith in mainstream society, they harbor hopes for a better future for their children, if not for themselves. Go to church and take strong interest in their children"s schooling. Decent parents tend to be strict in their rearing practices, encouraging children to respect authority and walk a straight moral line. Show a lack of consideration for other people and have a rather superficial sense of family and community. Many of them are unable to cope with the physical and emotional demands of parenthood. They are more invested in the code of streets than decent people are.
