Effects of Bad Parenting -Development of Criminal Mentality in Child/Adolescent : It is every parents dream to have his or her child grow up into a responsible person. Even though every parent wishes the best for his or her child, at times bad parenting gets in the way of achieving this. Though all the parents want their children to be emotionally stable and happy, many of them show emotionally highly unstable behaviour and react violently in various issues which crop up in day to day family interactions. " When you become a parent remember : Don't allow anything in your life that you don't want reproduced in your children. " The violent reaction by parents does not send healthy message to the child or adolescent. He or she can start feeling tied in a cage of emotional abuse . In order to get out of it he or she may try to find emotional comfort away from home. In doing so many of the times the child /adolescent may fall in bad company resulting into failures or lesser success in education. This may invite violent reaction from emotionally unstable parents resulting into a loop of bad parenting and reciprocating violent reaction by the child /adolescent. As parents are physically stronger, the violent reaction is transferred to younger children in the family or in neighbourhood. More the child feels emotional abuse in the home, higher will be his violent reactions which may ultimately convert into a crime, earlier smaller ones and with time major ones. Therefore as parents if we find that our children are over reacting or their behavior is obtaining a violent tone, take a break, evaluate your behavior pattern and make necessary improvement to win back the confidence of the child in you, which is a must to stop his or her slide into the darkness of insecurity.