Following the previous post, it sounds like instead of blaming mothers, we should do more to make sure youth are under supervised or being cared for outside the school time, especially when their parents are still working.

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Yes. You are right. The growing number of households with parents working outside the home has resulted in youth spending a greater amount of time away from their families and with their peers often in unsupervised settings. In response to the need for supervision and the heightened prevalence of delinquency and victimization in the hours after school, a growing number of parents rely on afterschool programs to increase both pro-social influences and the level of adult supervision in the after-school hours. Within Western society, the number of afterschool programs has grown substantially over the past two decades.