Parent-Child Relationship and Deviant Behavior of Juvenile Children: the Mediating Role of Domestic Violence Exposure: Basis for A Proposed Intervention Scheme

Parents’ negligence may produce rebellious children that almost always became a menace to the society by becoming deviants. This study focuses on the mediating role of domestic violence exposure on the relationship between parent-child relationship and deviant behavior of juvenile children. Questionnaires were distributed among 350 parents as respondents of the study, wherein the data gathered were treated utilizing statistical tools such as Mean, Pearson r, Medgraph, and Regressions. The result of the study are as follows: The level of parent-child relationship was very high; the level of deviant behavior of juvenile children was low; the level of domestic violence exposure was low; there was significant relationship between parent-child relationship and domestic violence exposure; there was a significant relationship between domestic violence exposure and deviant behavior of juvenile children; there was significant relationship between parent-child relationship and deviant behavior of juvenile children; there was partial mediation of domestic violence exposure on the relationship between parent-child relationship and deviant behavior of juvenile children. The implication of the study concerns about the morality foundation of every family, wherein convictions must not only lies on the existing law of the land but on their spiritual belief as well, particularly in determining what is right and what is wrong