Does parental permissiveness affect children's development?
Arguments
1. The excessive pennissiveness of present-day parents is doing more harmthan good to children and society as well.
2. Children should develop the habit of working and living independentlyand, meanwhile, practise the virtue of being filial to their parents.
3. Children who have a surfeit of happiness in their childhood often emergelike stodgy puddings and fail to make a success of life.
4. The fact that young people nowadays are self-centred, indifferent andinconsiderate of others is largely the outcome of parental permissiveness intheir childhood.
5. Parental authority in a family helps a child to develop his characterhealthily.
6. Parents should exercise strict discipline over their children because,the more permissive the parents are, the more rebellious against their parentsthe children will become.
7. Lavish care and excessive permissiveness will only give rise to hedonismamong the younger generation.
8. If one lets the child do whatever he wants to, he will ruin the childfor life.
9. We have to admit the fact that we now have got a generation of spoilt,selfcentred brats with no respect for their elders.
10. The spread of juvenile delinquency in our age is largely due toparental pennissiveness.
Counter-argmnents
1. More care for children is not the same as permissiveness to them.
2. The truth is that parents nowadays do not take enough care of theirchildren and often neglect their development because the parents are onlyinterested in their careers.
3. Parents are not at all permissive to their children. Violence oftentakes place in families in which children are abused.
4. Only a relaxed family atmosphere can help the physical and psychologicalgrowth of children.
5. To let children do what they like contributes to their independence andcompetence in their adult lives.
6. It is unfair to blame parents for the spread of juvenile delinquency.There are a lot of other causes involved.
7. Many cases show that children leave home and become members of streetgangs just because they can not bear authoritarian control over them by theirparents.
8. Strict discipline does not always work in terms of developing children'spersonal qualities. Too much pressure on children leads to rebellion and otherextreme actions.
9. Parents are not justified in using violence to keep discipline andmaintain their authority over the children.
10. Children are human beings, too. They need to be protected instead ofbeing frequently scolded or physically abused.
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