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In today’s society, there has been a notable increase in the number of young offenders. In this regard, it is often argued that good parenting skills can perfectly prevent this problem. However, some people think that there are other more details to consider to solve it. I also agree with them and will discuss the reasons in this essay.
Actually, the causes of young criminals are not limited in the relationship between the parents and them anymore, and this is what makes their crimes complicated to be addressed. In the past, the generation gap was mostly due to communication issues, and this often led to criminal behaviours. However, today’s generation gap happens because their worlds they are living are different as digital age takes over, and there have been many changes in the behavioral pattens.
Also, parents and their children nowadays have unsharable life experiences. The parents with good parenting skills might be able to correct the behaviours of their children if it is about school life, but they cannot give advice about digital life because it is new for them and children can be more obsessed with it to avoid parents. They now experience more without parents, and parenting skills cannot solve all the resulting problems.
In conclusion, having better parenting skills is not the only way of reducing young offenders. This is because parents are not the cause of them and they cannot control the external world that their children are living. |