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The best way to reduce youth crime is to educate parents about good parenting skills. To what extent do you agree or disagree

#youth #crime #parents #skills
Some
people
 believe that
parents
 need to be educated in
term
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 of parenting skills which can decrease the crime rate committed by adolescents. I hold the view that not only
parents
 have good parenting skills but
also
 their
children
 need to be taught how to be good
human
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humans
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 in
societies
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.
Firstly
, most of the young
people
spent
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 most of their time with family. From the earlier age from two to five years old, they will mimic what they see in
home
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 environment including their mother and father.
Thus
, the
parents
 need to have knowledge
how
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 to deal
this
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 kind of
situations
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situation
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 in order to have a good role model.
Furthermore
, at the
developments
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 stage,
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children
 often have a lot of curiosity
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the
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things
especially
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 something that they
first seen
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.
For instance
, they will see television shows like action
movie
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movies
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 that have
violence
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scene
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.
Parents
 have to select the television program carefully for their
children
.
On the other hand
,
the
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children
itself
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need to be educated in order to be good
people
that
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 live in
the
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societies. They can be taught both by their families in the house and
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by teacher
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teacher
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teachers
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 when they go to school. In
this
 way, they will have
a
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knowledge from
the
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 young age
how
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 to be a good person
and
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lead
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the
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 decreasing
of
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crime rate.
To sum up
, it is good to have
parents
 with good parenting skills in order to reduce
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crime involving
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younger
people
. I believe that other actions need to be done that the young
people
itself
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themselves
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also
 need to be taught how to be a good
people
.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • nurturing environment
  • problematic behavior
  • adequately address
  • effective communication
  • supervision and guidance
  • positive activities
  • youth crime
  • parental skills
  • early signs
  • foster understanding
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