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The family structure also does not exist in the material focused countries of the West. The prime reason for the same is the increased freedom given to the word freedom in their culture and legal structure. A free culture which spoils all the habits of a child exists in the US. Moreover such a culture is shielded by an equally free legal structure.
A child who has barely reached a tender age of 2 - 3 years old gets entitled to a separate room. Such a family may not buy a one room kitchen flat. They have to make a provision for a separate room for a child as they give great importance to privacy in a person's life.
If the father has courage, he should try an experiment to act tough with the child. Within a few moments, there is the possibility of a police van arriving and warning the father in no uncertain terms to behave decently with the child. Pity the country and pity the child where for such a small matter, the child can go to his room, dial the police and exercise his right to get his father behind bars.
If by being a little strict with the child, the father has broken the law related to the child's rights. Don't the parents dutybound to discipline their children have some rights ? By giving more significance to the freedom of the child, haven't we over-looked the rights of the parents ? In reality, it is not merely the right of the father to discipline his child but his moral duty also.
In childhood and teenage, it is possible that the child may fall victim to some bad habit in the absence of a good understanding and the limitations of his experience and maturity. In such a state if the child does not understand though explained enough, who is responsible to become a little strict but free the child from the vices he is trapped in ? We don't deny that the child has his own life, but at the same
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