So before I switched to higher education, I spent my time working for many low income/ title -1 schools. I also worked for many non profits that helped homeless youth + runaways.
From my experience around 99% of children that run away are running away due to either abuse or neglect in the household.
There have even been times where I have seen families go viral because they’re child was missing, all to find out that the reason their child ran away was because the parents or other family members were abusing them.
Even though teenagers can be moody and emotional, most teenagers enjoy being locked away in their rooms unbothered. Most teenagers like their home because they have their room and food there.
If a child is running away, I think authorities need to also be investigating the home life and the parents because most likely there is something that they are running away from.
I thinks a lot of times when children run away, it is the fault of the parents because they are creating an unsafe environment for their kids.
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is this unpopular?
no one willingly leaves a loving and accepting family
Some kids are just misbehaved and bad kids , at a certain point kids are more influenced by their friends than you
This was happening in my neighborhood. The kid kept running away, and the cops would bring her back home. Turned out the mom was on meth and was prostituting her for drugs.
In my case, my parents were just assholes. They provided for me and took care of me. But they made me feel like shit. I ran away at 17.
It is why when you look at most missing children posters, they tend to be kids in care (and often they are repeat runaways). If they are really worried about kids who have gone missing and think there is more to it, that is when they really ramp up a search.
3 kids. Two are angels and one is a little monster.
Why is it the parents fault but not the child’s free will and personality that makes the child responsible for their bad choices?
I tried to run away when I was a kid because my mom grounded me for eating all of our junk food while she was in the shower.
In most cases yeh but not always, I was going to run away when my mum died but that wasn’t her fault it happened
While this is about 80% true. There is that other percent where it is heavily influenced and a small percentage of mental health issues, especially in kids today.
Here in ontario, cutting yourself and running away are a trend right now. It’s actually a huge problem. There is no difference between kids from a good home or a bad home anymore. It’s an issue that needs to be heavily addressed. Our resources are strained because our leaders are old and incompetent. And the lockdowns really messed these kids up.
probably true more often than not yeah
but there are some kids who are just legitimately born with tremendous issues and do shit like this.
we all probably grew up near a family that was overall very nice, but had that one idiot kid who did shit like that while everyone else was normal.
no one likes to hear it but some times the dice roll does get you just a reprehensible shit person no matter what environment they’re in
Feels very easy to pin the blame on parents for every action an individual takes.
You can’t be too strict, but also can’t be too loose, and even when you find that perfect medium, you are still on the hook for any actions taken as a result of 3rd party influences.