1 Parental and Peer Influence Cornelia Smith Professor Rose Bunch Columbia Southern University English 1010 August 10, 2021 2 Parental and Peer Influence A child's growth from conception to adulthood comes through various challenges that require a tremendous influence to sustain them to become responsible adults. The Influence felt by a child as they grow up dictates a lot of their life. There are some stages during which a child goes through before they get to adulthood that require proper guidance. Both parental and peer Influence may have a positive impact on the child as well as negative Influence. Other than the two are other sets of Influence that require an equally affect a child's growth into adulthood. Parental influence starts from the mother's care and behavior toward her child. Children learn a lot from those who raise them; hence it is up to the parent to ensure their influence is most beneficial. In modern societies, parents tend to avoid a lot of responsibilities by letting their children be raised and guided by teachers. Education is an essential part of everyone's life but cannot be compared to the impact parental influence has on the child. It is noted that a child of a thief is a thief due to the influence the child attains in his growth. In the course of a child's growth, they are influenced by a lot of people in their lives. The behavior of a child mostly resembles that of the closest person to them. According to Balsa (2016). "The influence of parents is, however, stronger in outcomes less likely to be observable and penalized by peers." Parents form an essential part of someone's life and character. In various studies, it can be identified that there is a clear distinction between a child raised solemnly by their parents or that who is orphaned or abandoned by the parents. Parents in this scenario represent not only the birth parents but also guardians or adopted parents. Abusive parents to a child also influence the child negatively. A child eventually turns out to become a reflection of the parents upbringing. Children tend to get fond of people quickly; hence being influenced forms part of their growth into adulthood. The influence of the teenagers 3 then determines their morals, ethics, and character and also their goodwill. Teenager whose influence negatively affected their growth finds themselves in illegal activities that lead them to crime. Most children find themselves engaged in delinquency and end up in juvenile jails hence ruining their lives in the process. The individual impact is also part of the process, as everybody has their own mind and intelligence. Peers form another part of the various influence’s children undergo in their lives as they grow up into adulthood. The internet and other technological devices have increased the peer influence on growing children for over a decade now. In every country and state around the world, interne ...

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Parental and Peer Influence
Cornelia Smith
Professor Rose Bunch
Columbia Southern University
English 1010
August 10, 2021
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Parental and Peer Influence
A child's growth from conception to adulthood comes through
various challenges that
require a tremendous influence to sustain them to become
responsible adults. The Influence felt by
a child as they grow up dictates a lot of their life. There are
some stages during which a child goes
through before they get to adulthood that require proper
guidance. Both parental and peer Influence

2. may have a positive impact on the child as well as negative
Influence. Other than the two are other
sets of Influence that require an equally affect a child's growth
into adulthood.
Parental influence starts from the mother's care and behavior
toward her child. Children
learn a lot from those who raise them; hence it is up to the
parent to ensure their influence is most
beneficial. In modern societies, parents tend to avoid a lot of
responsibilities by letting their
children be raised and guided by teachers. Education is an
essential part of everyone's life but
cannot be compared to the impact parental influence has on the
child. It is noted that a child of a
thief is a thief due to the influence the child attains in his
growth.
In the course of a child's growth, they are influenced by a lot of
people in their lives. The
behavior of a child mostly resembles that of the closest person
to them. According to Balsa (2016).
"The influence of parents is, however, stronger in outcomes less
likely to be observable and
penalized by peers." Parents form an essential part of someone's
life and character. In various

3. studies, it can be identified that there is a clear distinction
between a child raised solemnly by their
parents or that who is orphaned or abandoned by the parents.
Parents in this scenario represent not only the birth parents but
also guardians or adopted
parents. Abusive parents to a child also influence the child
negatively. A child eventually turns out
to become a reflection of the parents upbringing. Children tend
to get fond of people quickly;
hence being influenced forms part of their growth into
adulthood. The influence of the teenagers
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then determines their morals, ethics, and character and also
their goodwill. Teenager whose
influence negatively affected their growth finds themselves in
illegal activities that lead them to
crime. Most children find themselves engaged in delinquency
and end up in juvenile jails hence
ruining their lives in the process. The individual impact is also
part of the process, as everybody
has their own mind and intelligence.
Peers form another part of the various influence’s children

4. undergo in their lives as they
grow up into adulthood. The internet and other technological
devices have increased the peer
influence on growing children for over a decade now. In every
country and state around the world,
internet access has been the norm for every human interaction.
Teenagers currently interact with
their peers ten times more compared to fifty years ago. This
constant development and utilization
of technology have turned the world into a global village. Today
people are recruited into terrorist
groups and cults online without a physical presence.
Most illegal groups and congregations focus and aim at the
young people in society. This
use of technology has also rendered and limited the impact
parents have on their children. Today, if
a teenager is being disturbed or stressed over a problem, she
would rather text her colleague far
away than ask the mother, who is just a word away. This has
increased the influence on children to
be more peer-focused than a parental influence. Peer influence
is rarely on good terms as each
teenager wants to benefit from the other. An example of peer
influence is a teenager being

5. introduced into a drug business being promised tons of money
to which they rarely see at home.
Such peer pressure for financial freedom and away from family
constraints makes one
tempted for individual life. This influence mostly happens to
teenagers who have the mindset to
have grown up and need to fend for themselves. Having seen
some money, most teenagers would
be drawn away from innocence and into crime. The internet also
publicly influences people to
Rose Bunch
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publicly show their profiles and life making them targets of
maliciously intent individuals (Soh and
Ang, 2017). During adolescence, the transition into adulthood is
usually faced with decisions on
life prospects; hence the closest influence usually determines
one’s future and life. Most parental

6. influences positively guide a teenager into taking the right
actions hence living a positive life and
non-criminal life.
Rose Bunch
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reflection. Well done!
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References
Balsa, A. (2018) Peer effects vs. parental influence in the
development of capabilities in adolescence.
Retrieved from https://ideas.repec.org/p/mnt/wpaper/1609.html
Soh, et al. (2018) Parents vs peers’ influence on teenagers’
Internet addiction and risky online activities,
Telematics and Informatics. Retrieved from
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2017.11.003.
For this task, you will identify a current description of a data-
driven DSS, such as those
described in the readings for this week. The identified systems
should provide enough

7. information about the system for you to create a diagram and
data-flow model of the system.
You should describe as fully as possible the design of the
system, uses, and performance. You
should then use the readings and research to propose
improvements to the system. Improvements
should be described in terms of design, uses, performance, and
cost. You should provide
background about the improvement and references to support
your decision to make a change.
Your proposed final system should be described in the same
terms as the original design with
explanations of how the improvement benefits the system,
database design changes, and data
flow.
Length: 6-7 pages, not including title and reference pages
References: Include a minimum of six scholarly resources.
Readings:
- Aljawarneh, I. M. (2016). Design of a DW model for decision
support at higher
education: A Case Study. Doi: 10.1177/0266666915621105
- Bhansali, Neera. (2009). Strategic Data Warehousing. Boca
Raton, FL: CRC Press
(Auerbach Publications).

8. - Khan, F. A., Ahmad, A., Imran, M., Alharbi, M., M., & Jan, B.
(2017, November).
Efficient data access and performance improvement model for
virtual data warehouse.
Doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2017.08.003