In many countries around the world young people decide to leave their parents' home once they finish school. They start living on their own or sharing a room with friends. Is this a positive or a negative development? Give reasons for your answer and include relevant examples.

Being independent after 18 has
definately
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definitely
negative and positive sides
however
, in my
opinion
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the positive effects are more than the negatives. When a teenager starts living
by
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her/his own
all alone
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, they learn how to manage their
money
in a way that they find out gradually not to spend all of their allowance on throwing parties or hanging out with their friends but
also
saving
the
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money
for the future.
For instance
, in the first month that they feel free from
the
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parents
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opinions and plans, some of them start to
throwing
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parties and
buying
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drinks for their companions. Ultimately, after one or two months
that
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they will be out of
the
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money
and nothing will
be remained
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remain
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to live with for the rest of the month, they'll comprehensively figure
it
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out that their
money
is not just for passing
time
with other
youth
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young
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people.
Furthermore
in order to live separately, most of them feel the need
of working
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and
receiving
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their own income so that they don't have to explain everything to their
parents
again.
This
is a great way for them to know both sides of the future path and living alone as well. At
this
time
, they will decide whether they want to continue their studies or
living
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leave
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school to enter into the business world.
Although
most of the young generation feel happy and free when they choose to live away from
the
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family, there are a minor group of them that will
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down
into
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a wrong path
such
as addiction to drugs or leaving university to waste all of their
time
just for hanging out with friends. Another negative point of living alone or sharing
the
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room with another person is that there would be no ready
home made
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homemade
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meals anymore. The person has to manage the
time
perfectly to have
time
for cooking as well.
Also
, these are
young
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the young
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generation who have no experience
for
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of
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living
out
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outside
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of their parent's home. They will certainly miss home in hard times or in problems which they have to solve all
by
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their own. In conclusion, living alone after school has both positive and negative side effects
which
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all of
it
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depends
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on the person's decision and the way they will choose. In the meantime,
parents
can offer them their help
for
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the
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hard situations so that they would know that they are not alone and their
parents
haven't left them alone.
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