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Teenagers And Vandalism

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Teenagers are the generation that will be color the future. They are exposed to many things that can affect their behavior either to be the good person or not. Nowadays, we can see there are many problems among the teenagers, especially the social problem. Gangsters and vandalism are the example of some of these problems. Nevertheless, the heavier problem among teenagers nowadays is vandalism. According to “Vandalism in English,” (n.d) “vandalism is the intentional abuse, damage or destruction of any portion of someone else’s property or common or shared property such as our residential facilities, furnishings or public property.” Why teenagers tend to become a vandalism because they try to express themselves, seek for attention and they tend to follow their friends behavior.
Firstly, the problems that always lead teenagers to do vandalism is they want to be the attention seeker. It is maybe their parents did not give enough attention to them due to a lot of work to do or even their parents is kind of parents that not care about their children. It is because parents nowadays have a bunch of work to do such as doing the house chores, manage their children and their commitment to their work and society. In order to get back their parents’ attention, they will do the vandalism, so their parents will give attention to them. Vandalism can be harmful if we don’t prevent it from the earlier. According to the DirectGov (n.d), the effects of the vandalism are costing you money,

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