Inadequate adult role models for youth

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.

1. Insufficient role models
2. Inadequate adult guidance

1. Drug abuse by adolescents
2. Collapse in providing ethical value screens
3. Campus romance

1. Unstable family life
2. Unmotivated teachers
3. Uninvolved working parents
4. Unfruitful communication between student and teacher
5. Surrogate parenting
6. Substance abuse by role models
7. Single parent children
8. Parental domination of children's thinking
9. Parent-teacher non-communication
10. Loss of spiritual guidance
11. Limited social guidance by older generations
12. Excessive intensification of parent-child relationship
13. Deteriorating social environments for raising children
14. Abandoned children

1. Dependence on popular idols

1. Parental favouritism
2. Bereaved children

1. Instituting adolescent peer education
2. Improving adult role models for youth
3. Advocating role of mentors

1. Youth
2. Paucity
3. Inadequacy