Children over 15 should be allowed to make decisions about their lives without interference of their parents and teachers. Society should accept that children mature at younger age these days and should adjust the law accordingly. Discuss this statement in relation to your own society that you know well.
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Parents or other adult relatives should make important decisions for their older (15 to 18 year-old) teenage children. Children must not be allowed to make decisions independently as per the prevailing law. Parents must intervene and help children make important decisions right.
After all the kinds of decisions children may be tempted to make are limited to only two spheres. Firstly to fall in love with some, have sex or marry. Second may be about earning money by doing a job or a business. These decisions call for a mature age and not an underage.
As per the Indian law minimum age for getting employed or married is 21 years and 18 years for boys and girls respectively. This criterion is ratified by the medical science also.
Age of 15 is the age of puberty and drastic biological and hormonal changes take place in boys and girls. This is a very critical period and children are prone to indulgence in premature sex and wrong doings with terribly miserable consequences.
Daily television news channels report numerous cases of sex by minors, crimes like rape, molestation, minor mothers, illegal abortions, killings of infants etc. This all is the outcome of immature decision taking. Furthermore when such cases become Police Cases, the doers resort to committing more crimes by way of committing suicide or homicide or murders.
In conclusion, in light of the above children can’t be allowed to make independent decision without help of parents and elders. This is not only in the interest of an individual rather it is in the interest of the nation by large. ---------(266 Words)
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