Should parents be blamed for their adult child’s criminal behavior?
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黄晓韵 Tina
ELC 95528
Abstract: In this essay, we discuss whether parents should be blamed for their adult child’s criminal behavior or not. To study this issue, we had read a large number of references. At the same time, we analyzed the collective punishment in ancient China, the collectivism concept and the influence of parent’s way to education on children. Through the research we found that family education really has a huge influence on children’s growth, and in China, because of the collectivism, people generally agree with the concept that parents should be responsible for their child’s behaviour although they have been an adult. We concluded that parents should be blamed for their adult child’s criminal behavior.
The failure of family education would
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In China, most of the criminal's parent would apologize to the public. They admitted that they hadn't taken the responsibility to teach their children to be nice and felt guilty about that. But some people think as an adult, people should take responsibility for your own actions. Their parents are innocent. As far as I'm concerned, parents should be blamed for their adult children’s criminal behavior. Because parents have the greatest impact on their children, and in China, collectivism culture asks people to do that. There is a famous Chinese saying, ‘To feed without teaching is the father's fault’ in the Three Classic, one of the Chinese classic texts. It means parents should educate the children's not only raise them, and if you don't educate their children, parents make mistakes. Therefore, people in China generally believes that parents be blamed when their children have criminal behavior, even though they had become the adult. In
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