Do you know who your child is socializing with outside the home? Are you
protecting your child from gang activity through taking positive
actions, such as monitoring their activities, fostering close
relationships with them, and using positive discipline strategies?
Parents play a pivotal role in keeping young people out of gangs. Most
parents think not my child and lack information about gangs. Most gang
members tend to be adolescents or young adults, however, recent trends
indicate that children are being recruited into gangs at a much earlier
age, some when they are in elementary school. Gangs can include people
of every gender, race, culture and socioeconomic group. This book is
geared toward parents trying to keep their kids away from gangs, drugs
and violence, gang members who are looking for a way out, or readers who
just want to learn about gangs and how to keep kids away from gangs,
drugs and violence.