That's pretty much what we dreaded happening to a couple of sisters in our group who lived with their inattentive mother, an aunt and, I believe, a grandmother. The father of one of them was in prison; the other was unknown. I don't know how they turned out, as they were only 1st and 2nd grade when I taught them, but always feared they'd be pregnant by 14. 
@mountaineer It is a sad,sad fact of human nature that children come to admire the adults they grow up around as role models,and want to be just like those adults when they grow up.
It's not at all surprising this happens. The only that that is surprising is that there are ANY that escape that trap,and the sad thing about that is most of them are the ones that were born both bright and curious. The rest used to seem to escape mostly from being drafted,or something like a death in the family causes them to get sent to live with relatives far away.
You can't blame a child for growing up to be a thug,if thugs,pimps,whores,pushers,and armed robbers are all he knows and sees,and are the ones looked up to and admired in his social circle. They flat just don't know any better,and by the time they are in their 20's it's too late because they are uneducated thugs that can't even be trained because of their ignorance and attitudes,and they have criminal records..
They might as well been given prison ID cards at birth.
On a deeper level,they are this way because the Dim Party TRAINED them to be this way thanks to LBJ's "Great Society",and LBJ was caught on tape bragging that "Thanks to this,the Democratic Party will OWN the bleep vote for the next hundred years!",and laughing. He and the other Dims wrote and passed those laws PURPOSELY creating a new kind of slavery,in exchange for votes and political power.
Many blacks in America now are only Second-class citizens thanks to the DNC,and the bad news is the DNC is getting ready to set them adrift at sea on a leaky vote as they court the brown His and Her Panic Vote. There are a LOT more of them than there are blacks,and the Dims need more votes to stay in office. Which means someone has to suffer because there is only so much money and so many AA positions available,so the Browns are going to get most of them.
People tend to either forget or overlook that when the Dims SINCERELY tell he voters they want to "See equality established all over America!",it means they want all of America that isn't a part of the ruling class as serfs/slaves. Some of the voters even know this and don't care because what they REALLY care about is not having anyone they know living better or having more than THEY have. If that means they can never hope to own a single-family home,that is ok with them as long as nobody else they know gets to own a single-family home.
NOBODY is more obsessed with Class Warfare than the Dims and their voters.
