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The best way to reduce youth crimes is to educate their parents with parental skills. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

#youth #crimes #parents #skills
Our society
are
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 facing the issues that the young commit some
crimes
. Some people argue that if
parents
 learn how to bring up their
children
, these crime rates would be reduced. I disagree to a certain extent with
this
 view as educating
parents
 is less likely to be effective and there is another solution to these issues. On the one hand, the trend of teaching
parental
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skills
 to
parents
 carries some upsides. One of them is that when
parents
 who are unfamiliar with discipline are taught how to educate their
children
, they can carry out what they learn,
thus
 contributing to a certain effect on youth
crimes
. Another important advantage is that it would be relatively easy to teach these
skills
. If local councils gather a number of
parents
 in a large venue, they can educate the
skills
to
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 many people.
This
 can save time for
parents
 and local councils.
On the other hand
, teaching
parental
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skills
 to
parents
 would be ineffective
on
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 reducing young crime rates.
Firstly
, if governments educate
parents
 about parental
skills
, it would be uncertain whether or not they carry out these
skills
 to their
children
. Even though they follow these
skills
, it could not work well as the character of
children
 can profoundly vary.
Secondly
, there would be another way to solve the issue, i.e.
crimes
 by the young. Educating youngsters, teaching moral values at school or convicts telling their stories to pupils, would be a better way to reduce youth
crimes
,
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 because it has a direct impact on them. In conclusion, while educating
parents
have
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 some benefits, in my opinion, it is not necessarily the best way to reduce youth
crimes
 because there is another solution to
this
 issue.
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