"Parents should make decisions for their teenage children" (Please read my essay) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents or other adult relatives should make important decisions for their older (15 to 18 year-old) teenage children. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. --- During the years of adolescence‚ all the decisions for the children are being made by their parents. In some families this tendency still takes place as the children are growing
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Few people would defend the Victorian attitude to children‚ but if you were a parent in those days‚ at least you know where you stood: children were to be seen and not heard. Freud and company did away with all that and parents have been bewildered ever seen. The child’s happiness is all important‚ the psychologists say‚ but what about the parent’s happiness? Parents suffer constantly from fear and guilt while their children gaily romp about pulling the place part. A good old-rearing manual would
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think parents should be punished for the crimes their teenage children commit? Teenage crimes are on the rise and in trying to prevent this condition from aggravating‚ people start to consider an alternative solution - to punish the parents instead. The question is‚ are parents really the core of the problem or are there other bigger issues we have to consider? Punishing parents by law is certainly not the ideal way to handle these rising crime rates. Though it cannot be denied that parents are
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“The Latest from the Feminist “Front” by Rush Limbaugh argument is that how male’s pursuit females. The title “Feminist Front is the first evidence that the writer use to characterize feminist create a facade. The writer claims his views on the feminist movement is rough‚ insensitive‚ cruel‚ and provocative. The writer is rough on feminist with is why there is common ground. The excerpt has several logical fallacies which is some type of counter statement that weakens an argument (Writer’s np)
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Children in the Philippines: “No Time for Play” What brand of sugar are you using right now? Where was it made? Do you know what went into the making of your sugar? It could be the blood of a child‚ the sweat of a child‚ the tears of a child. Now‚ as I read about child labor‚ I look down at the pack of sugar I am using. I twist it around in an attempt to get a look at the tag‚ I can read the plain white tape into the tag: "Manufactured in Negros Occidental”. As I slowly put the sugar
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According to the New York Times‚ it is no longer true that the divorce rate is rising‚ or that half of all marriages end in divorce (“The Divorce Surge”). Divorce rates increased in the 1970s and 1980s‚ but in the last 20 years rates have dropped. Yet divorce is still considered a social problem. I find it remarkable that Disney made The Parent Trap‚ a wacky family comedy scrutinizing the “children of divorce” wish for divorced parents reconciliation and a family life so fascinating. Indeed‚ divorce
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Domestic Violence Between Parents And Children Thanks to the increasing trend of domestic violence between parents and their children‚ family violence has raised a lot of concerns in the society in recent years. A survey conducted by the Social Welfare Department of Hong Kong revealed that nearly half of the interviewees have been physically hurt by their parents when they were young. It is believed that apart from the personalities of parents‚ both the economic causes‚ such as poverty‚ and environmental
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Parents should never spank their children Most adults spank their children because it make the child immediately stop what they are doing and it gets their attention. This is true‚ but spanking children is a bad idea because it gives children the wrong message which says that hitting is a way to solve problems. Spanking should be illegal because it hurts both the children and the parents and it does not help when it comes to trying to get the children to behave better. There are many reason to why
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your peers and being accepted no matter what your traits and attributes are this is the idealistic concept of belonging. Subconsciously everyone finds comfort in belonging to something and brings some kind of happiness to an individual. In the film Strictly Ballroom produced and directed by Baz Lurhman‚ the movie focuses upon a ballroom dancer Scott who has the ability and skills to be the best but opposes the cliché rules of the ballroom world to dance his own unauthorised steps so he can break free
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How should children be raised? 1. Give an account of child raising principles as presented in the three texts. Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld‚ “Why I love my strict Chinese mom”‚ a newspaper report by Mandy Stadtmiller from The New York post website‚ 2011. 18-year old Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld says that she loves the tough parenting methods her mother used and thanks. Sophia has now become an independent thinker who makes the most of new opportunities. Tiger mother principle(s): The tiger mother method
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