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Black males aged form 15-19 are most common victims of youth violence Some of the statistics that may cause males to be most violent are these things. Frustration-When people can’t get what they want, they feel frustrated. As frustration builds, the urge to express it aggressively grows stronger. Babies will scream and kick if their mother takes away one of their desired toys. A child may push or punch someone who prevents him or her from getting candy. A teen may curse or shove another for cutting in line or flirting with a date. Violence is an extreme form of such aggressive behavior. Another is called anger which files out to be a temporary feeling that often goes hand-in-hand with frustration and sometimes causes aggression and violence When anger gets so intense that it is overpowering, violence can erupt. Hatred is unlike anger, is a longer lasting feeling that often directed at a whole group or class of people, such as blacks, Jews, foreigners. Paranoia, the unjustified feeling that someone is out to get you also makes people violent as they try to defend themselves against an assumed threat. Powerlessness is when individuals feel they cannot improve their lives, their self-esteem plummets, that is, they feel they have little self worth. They feel insignificant, unimportant, and powerless. Broken families, teenage mothers, and absent fathers can profoundly influence a teen’s direction or toward violence. Male teens need good male role models to show them how to be “a real man” without being violent. Yet more than two thirds of all black children are born to unmarried women half whom are teenagers. Neighborhoods and communities I the inner city especially are failing to provide positive environments for teenagers. In the past communities were strong and cohesive, even in the places now days we love to cal “the ghetto”. Children not only felt that they were apart of the community or neighborhood but also apart of their nations culture. But today closely knit neighborhoods have been unraveled by soaring rates of crime, substance abuse, teenage pregnancy ,and single-parent families Instead of the community leaders and positive role models in the community, youths turn ever more to gangs and protection, and sense of identity and place to belong.