Child Allowance - Any Exceptions?

k12479

Chrissiew wrote: »

Why do people blame the parents if the kids turn out bad?

Because in most cases the parenting, or lack of, is likely to be a significant factor in whether kids turn out bad or not.

Chrissiew wrote: »

They could have raised their kids in a perfectly good way but once a child gets older, starts mixing with other kids and teenagers that's when they can start to turn bad, nothing to do with how they were raised.

Nothing to do with how they were raised?? I would say it is very much to do with how kids are raised.

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Because in most cases the parenting, or lack of, is likely to be a significant factor in whether kids turn out bad or not.

You can take a horse to water but can't make it drink.
Children grow up. They have free will.

k12479

They do, but if they then use that free will to act to the detriment of themselves, or society, it's probably quite likely to be due to either behaving in a way that was learnt from the parents or rebelling from the parents.

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rebelling from the parents.

Possibly against what they saw as "old fashioned values"........?

Upbringing counts but I am sure that there is many a one who was what you might think of as "dragged up" who yet made good and many a one brought up by law abiding parents who went wrong.

Ultimately each person is responsible for his own behaviour - there can be very few who grow up in a moral vacuum.