Should Children have the same rights to privacy as adults.
May 9, 2023 Uncategorized 0 comment cfournier23
This topic is a hard situation to talk about because people may have many opinions on this topic and it can be a real debate. My argument is that children should have no right to privacy as adults, starting at a young age children are born with no experience or even any way to be self-sufficient to live on their own. Your parents job is to raise you and teach you how to be a asset to the society. Growing up you become more and more independent and you wean off from needing your parents for everything. That being said, around the age of 16-18 I can see why teens would want to have privacy. They are very close to that stage of being adults and wanting their own freedom. I understand that because I just went through all that tough time before turning into an adult. But I believe that until you are out of high school parents should still have control over your life.
Say you would make a criminal choice and you get in trouble for that, until you turn 18 it is your parents problem and they will have to deal with the consensus because you are under the age of 18. “Most parental responsibility statutes punish parents for what they haven’t done, rather than what they have done. The laws make parents criminally liable because they have not fulfilled their parental duty to keep their kids from breaking the law. So, the parent of the juvenile garage thief is not charged for the theft but for letting his child commit it by failing to exercise proper parental control.”(Criminal Defense Lawyer) This quote show that in fact if you are under 18 and you choose to commit a crime than it is in the responsibility of your parents for not raising you enough to be know right from wrong and to teach you not to do those things.“the Columbine killers planned, plotted and even armed themselves right underneath the parents’ noses because said parents were more concerned about the privacy of their kids than parenting. The Columbine kids enjoyed weeks of unfiltered private room time, computers and emails.”(Papi Blogger) What this guy in this article is talking about is very valid and terrifying to think about.
Teens brains aren’t fully developed “The brain finishes developing and maturing in the mid-to-late 20s. The part of the brain behind the forehead, called the prefrontal cortex, is one of the last parts to mature.”(NIMH) This quote from NIMH is talking about how children’s brains are not fully developed till mid to late 20s which is a long time from teens that feel the need to have their own privacy. Without having a fully developed brain you are not going to think clearly about what you’re doing. Children are too immature to be able to make decisions that are practical and the best possible choice. This is just another reason as to why children should be monitored by parents until they turn 18 and are on their own and can think for themselves and be responsible for each action that they have.
Yes I will say that children should be able to take time to themselves to talk to friends play games and be a kid, I will agree that it helps with the maturity of children but when it comes down to a Childs like the parent should know what is going on with their children’s health, education, and things that are going on in their life to be able to teach them how to be self sufficient and be able to be a successful member of society. I have a strong opinion about this topic because I feel a lot of kids don’t get raised the right way and are raised to make criminals and misbehaved and rude children and it’s not okay. Sometimes I just wonder what would go on in a kid’s life to be able to treat someone the way some kids do. On top of that kids are raised with no parents and they do have all the privacy because their parents don’t care what happens to them which is super sad and they end up growing up and making bad decisions.
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