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Article: Gangbusters: parents still play key role in saving kids from the streets; study examines ethnic differences in the effect of parenting on gang involvement, delinquency. (Faculty Club).
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- July 4, 2002
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There's a strong message to be taken from Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes' research, and it's simply this: Parents are not powerless, particularly when it comes to saving their kids from street gangs.
Indeed, the conclusions Walker-Barnes draws in her recent research project--examining ethnic differences in the effect of parenting on gang involvement and delinquency--fly in the face of long-accepted standards in her field. In 1993, for example, the National Research Council stated that the impact of deviant peers is overwhelming during adolescence for African American youth--so much so that there may be nothing parents can do to offset it.
That just didn't ...