When children come from a negative home, they tend to bring negative attitudes to school. Peer and teacher rejection, in turn, is associated with academic failure, and the child is increasingly isolated. We know a great deal about the societal factors and conditions that accelerate the development of antisocial behavior patterns, which often manifest themselves in violent acts committed against persons or property. Now that we have visited the relationship between societal problems and antisocial behaviors, lets examine the role of the parents and schools in educating children with behavior problems. Social Interactions between Antisocial Children, Peers, and Teachers Antisocial children are consistently rated negatively by their peers and are also socially rejected.
Peers often identify antisocial children as undesirable classmates and playmates.
They often bond together as a group, hang out together during and after school, and create the foundation for future deviant peer groups. Social skill deficits and a failure to abide by the rules set by teachers are the root causes of the adjustment problems experienced by antisocial children. Antisocial children set up social environments that severely punish them. They victimize others, especially peers, at extremely high rates, yet they perceive themselves as victims and as not being treated fairly. The antisocial child's insensitivity to how the social environment affects them is matched only by their insensitivity to the effects of their behavior on the social environment in which they are apart of.