Acts which make your peers avoid risky behaviour

Acts which make your peers avoid risky behaviour

Risky behaviour can be seen in acts which affect us and cause health, social and economic problems. Risky behaviour has certain negative effects on society and can cause insecurity for people and their property. Caring for others includes enhancing good communication between one person and another and helping others to avoid risky behaviour.

When communicating with our friends, it is important for us to know their life backgrounds so that we can help them without risking their lives. Normally, the things to which people are attracted can be used to help them stop doing wrong things or acts and become respectable members of society. Activities which can help to shape other people's behaviour include participating in sport activities and religious meetings, as well as helping other people. Other activities are avoiding bad peer groups, good school attendance and being sympathetic to others.

Effects of risky behaviour

Risky behaviour such as excessive alcohol consumption, drug use and selling, unprotected sexual acts, theft, quarrels, discrimination and family conflicts can cause insecurity and unrest in society. Some of the effects of risky behaviour include:

1. Someone who is involved in drug abuse, unprotected sexual acts, excessive alcohol consumption and robbery may die or get infected with a disease;
2. Someone who drinks much alcohol can cause family sorrow or loss of family property because he or she can sell the property to get some money for buying liquor;
3. A drug abuser may not build a good house for his or her family and may lose friends and respect from family members and society; and
4. Drugs can make someone troublesome and thus he or she can cause others to sustain injuries or permanent disabilities.

Giving priority to people in need and those with special needs in service provision

In providing social services, the first priority should be given to people with special needs and those in need. Doing so shows we care for, value and respect them. People with special needs and those in need include elders, children, the disabled, sick people, pregnant women and those who care for infants.

People in need and those with special needs should be given priority so that they can get the services they want. When we are in a queue, we need to give priority to people with special needs so that they are served before we are. The areas where this priority should be observed are in medical treatment, voter registration and bank services. For example, if you are standing in a queue at a hospital and there is a woman with a baby behind you, let her get the service first.