The Encyclopedia
of World Problems
& Human Potential

Inadequate adult role models for youth

Name(s):

Substitute parent figures for children

Paucity of mentors

Nature

Biological parents may be satisfactory providers for their children, but may be deficient in providing the psychic, spiritual, emotional or intellectual guidance needed by a child. Other adults may be available to fill these roles, such as relatives, teachers or neighbours.

Broader

Insufficient role models

Inadequate adult guidance

Aggravates

Campus romance ^{[in 11 loops]}

Drug abuse by adolescents ^{[in 2 loops]}

Collapse in providing ethical value screens ^{[in 6 loops]}

Aggravated by

Single parent children

Uninvolved working parents

Loss of spiritual guidance

Substance abuse by role models

Parent-teacher non-communication

Parental domination of children's thinking

Limited social guidance by older generations

Unfruitful communication between student and teacher

Deteriorating social environments for raising children

Excessive intensification of parent-child relationship

Reduced by

Dependence on popular idols

Strategy(ies)

Instituting adolescent peer education

Advocating role of mentors

Improving adult role models for youth

Value(s)

Youth

Inadequacy

Paucity

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

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The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

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