Some people think that keeping pets is good for children while others think it is dangerous and unhealthy. Which opinion do you agree with? Discuss both options and give examples.
In recent times, I shall argue that The Child Safety Institute found that over 90% of
pet related
injuries and mortalities have sparked heated debates about whether it is healthy for Add a hyphen
pet-related
children
to be around pets
. In this
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,
such
dangers are overemphasised and that children
receive substantive psychological benefits through having pets
.
To begin
with, although
exotic pets
(e.g. snakes, spiders, apes, etc.) have been known to occasionally hurt and even kill children
, such
incidents are so statistically rare as to be negligible. This
is because the overwhelming majority of children
have non-lethal cats, dogs, fish, rodents and rabbits for pets
. For example
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,
children
owned the aforementioned pets
, and professed that they had never felt in the least bit endangered by them. Seen in this
light, it is clearly unfounded to claim that pets
present any physical danger to children
.
Secondly
, pets
can impact positively upon child psychology. This
is because young pet owners frequently empathise with their pets
and perform a diverse range of actions to maintain their
well being (e.g. feeding, grooming, administering medicine, etc). Replace the word
they're
they are
For example
, the Cambridge Developmental Psychology Unit found that children
who had grown up with pets
were 30% less likely to bully others and resolve conflicts through aggression. Consequently
, it is undeniable that a child’s pro-sociality and mental health can be improved through exposure to pets
.
In conclusion, the cited evidence provides strong support for the view that children
owning pets
is a good thing. In the future, as more laws are introduced to ban the ownership of illegally acquired exotic pets
, this
viewpoint will no doubt surge in popularity.Submitted by nityas20012001 on
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