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When a teenage son remains outside the house till late in the night, it is the parent's duty to question him and it is the child's duty to support the parents. What is wrong if the parents ask for an account from their teenage children who spend a four digit amount per week ? Can a mother not rebuke her daughter who gets questionable messages continuously on her mobile ?
It is seldom found that parents are orthodox. In fact, it is the new generation that strives to access freedom in excess. Under the guise of the backwardness of the elders of the family, the harbingers of change in the society are trying to justify more freedom to the youth and it is a fact that this issue is worrisome. There should be happiness in life but excessive pleasure which becomes an obsession is not in reality pleasure but a kind of indecency, if the difference between pleasure and limits is wiped off. The society will remain clean only if the elders are alert to the fact that crime does not become rampant in the name of pleasure.
Recently the change agents of society in the US have given a new analogy by way of caution. The gist of that analogy is like this : "In the case of those parents who believe in giving their children more freedom and information than their age, their children adopt illegal and incorrect means of living. These parents feel that they are pleasing their children but in reality they are killing their children”.
Many parents utter these stylish dialogues : "our children's happiness is uppermost for us and if they remain happy then we are not concerned with what they do”. This is a way of escapism for the parents whose prime duty is to ensure that their children are on the right track. A mother does not serve food which the child likes to eat but which
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