Runaways

Rebellious teenagers are common of disagreements with family members. Teenagers born with career-minded parents whom are always on the rush and stressed over their jobs. This parents are lack of care and concern for their growing teenagers. Without time to care and love, understanding of their teens needs is non-existent. When no understanding within family unit, frequent arguments and confrontation will take place with consequence of chaotic households. As a result, teenagers feel left out and leave home in anger or in retaliation.

On the other hand, in category of controlling parents, they are likely treat teens like small children living with rule book, with lots of “house rules”. In the family, this authoritative parents rule teenagers with rod of irons making sure their teens followed the “house rules” that have been set, making restrictions in making friends and hanging out with friends. This social constraints will make teenagers feel they are like living in a cage with no freedom, as such strict rules are always come with adverse impacts on both teenagers and parents. Additionally, in school, there are regulations are not mainly revolved around disciplines, but also strict on dressing up, hairstyle, colors of bag packs, shoes and others which doesn’t sound sensible to anyone or just over-the-top. While after school, teenagers also have to bear the burden of overload homework and tuition routine. They have been putting on too much pressure and some, need more room to breath, pick to breakaway.

In some unfortunate families, teen runaways to avoid abuse, be it in a form of physical or verbal, or both. Girls previously born in a broken family and then sexually abused by stepfather the next minute is hard to endure. Teenage girls could be physically abused by father as drunk as a skunk, or verbally abused by stressed and nagging mothers all the time. Such physical and verbal violence will lay negative effect on the teenagers psychology and behaviour. It makes them feel unloved and unwanted. They are left alone and afraid with nobody to confide in with their shameful ordeal and problems. Hence, running away to escape seems like a good way to go.

It is important to know that teens may use running away as a mean of getting attention, resolving an arguments or even as an attempt to make parents feel guilty or scared. However, the teenagers themselves have to be sensible enough too, to face their problems and learn to cope with it, instead of escape from it. Parents need to know the underlying cause of their teenager’s unhappiness by having heart-to-heart talk to help solve the problems and explain the dangers of running away.