dysfunctional and uncaring homes. While in some cases this may be true,

in many homes this is not the case. In Susan Horton's article "Mothers,

Sons, and The Gangs" she speaks of three different scenarios of gang

members and their families. Although the families had different

backgrounds, beliefs, and techniques they all shared in common sons who

were gang members. They are mothers who care but have to face alone the

battle of raising their sons in a community lost to gangs. In Horton's

article we are introduced to three different families whose sons are

involved with gangs. Teresa Rodriguez who still feels foreign and timid

about the culture of America. Maggie Garcia who was raised in the same

neighborhood as her son and believes that loyalty to the neighborhood is

just and understandable. And Gayle Thomas Kary who because of financial

struggles was thrown into the gang community and fought her best to save

her son. And their sons whom are all minors living in a society pressured

by gang affiliation. Although their homes had loving mothers their gangs

had friends, bravado, acceptance, and a way of life. Studies prove that

at the wrong time. Although Garcia feels that the neighborhood is

sent Jamee back because he could not control him. When he stole her car

what?(Horton 234) So he'll never know what tomorrow could have offered

measure up or succeed in school, after all his neighborhood it was the

place at the wrong time. She could not accept that maybe he is doing wrong

because he was arrested and charged with arm robbery which took place a

may be committing crimes or may be with the wrong crowd or may be in a

belong to something because his future was paved for him. His brothers

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