Destiny McCurdy Bethel University Claim Statement for Final Essay When a child feels alone, depressed, unwanted, or insufficient and do not receive the help that they need to improve themselves, several of them feel as if death, drugs, and running away are the only answers. How does anyone expect our youth to be better if no one is willing to do better for them? Furthermore, there are 80 youth prisons in the United States that are up and running to deliver consequences to the troubled youth who perform mistakes (Hager, 2016), but how many youth centers are there for them to escape their troubles and pain that drive them into delinquency? So few, I believe, because there aren’t even any lists or statistics documented to provide information …show more content…
In 1975, a study showed that, between ages 15-19, there were 1,289 suicides in males and 305 suicides in females (QuickStats, 2017). In 2015, those numbers increased to 1,537 suicides in males and 524 suicides in females (QuickStats, 2017). Those children presumably had nowhere to go to escape the problems they were facing in their everyday lives. The majority of them were probably being bullied at school or at home. If there were a larger variety of youth centers in the U.S. then those children would have had a place to go to extricate from their …show more content…
It’s been proven that children run away from home for several reasons: abuse at home, neglect, family issues, financial issues, the belief that everyone would be better off if they left, etc. I ran away at the age of fourteen. Instead of having a center to go to, I was on the streets, making money anyway I could to feed and clothe myself. Runaways also need help. We never know what may be going on behind closed doors or a mouth afraid of opening. If we were to put more youth centers in our cities, I believe that the children would not feel as much nee to leave permanently because they would have a place to escape without having to completely leave their