写作素材：父母的悲观对孩子的影响.

　　Does parental permissiveness affect children&aposs development?

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　　Arguments

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　　1. The excessive permissiveness of present-day parents is doing more harm than good to children and society as well.

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　　2. Children should develop the habit of working and living independently and, meanwhile, practise the virtue of being filial to their parents.

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　　3. Children who have a surfeit of happiness in their child hood often emerge like stodgy puddings and fail to make a success of life.

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　　4. The fact that young people nowadays are self-centred, indifferent and inconsiderate &aposof others is largely the outcome of parental permissiveness in their childhood.

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　　5. Parental authority in a family helps a child to develop his character healthily.

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　　6. Parents should exercise strict discipline over their children because, the more permissive the parents are, the more rebellious against their parents the children will become.

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　　7. Lavish care and excessive permissiveness will only give rise to hedonism among the younger generation.

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　　8. If one lets the child do whatever he wants to, he will ruin the child for life.

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　　9. We have to admit the fact that we now have got a generation of spoilt, self-centred brats with no respect for their elders.

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　　10. The spread of juvenile delinquency in our age is largely due to parental permissiveness.

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　　Counter-arguments

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　　1. More care for children is not the same as permissiveness to them.

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　　2. The truth is that parents nowadays do not take enough care of their children and often neglect their development because the parents are only interested in their careers.

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　　3. Parents are not at all permissive to their children. Violence often takes place in families in which children are abused.

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　　4. Only a relaxed family atmosphere can help the physical and psychological growth of children.

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　　5. To let children do what they like contributes to their independence and competence in their adult lives.

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　　6. It is unfair to blame parents for the spread of juvenile delinquency. There are a lot of other causes involved.

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　　7. Many cases show that children leave home and become members of street gangs just because they can not bear authoritarian control over them by their parents.

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　　8. Strict discipline does not always work in terms of developing children&aposs personal qualities. Too much pressure on children leads to rebellion and other extreme actions.

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　　9. Parents are not justified in using violence to keep discipline and maintain their authority over the children.

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　　10. Children are human beings, too. They need to be protected instead of being frequently scolded or physically abused.