information just by sitting down in front of the laptop and having a better education system. So‚ we can see that children above the age of 15 today seem like having a greater knowledge and confidence if compared to the children in old days that look silly and know nothing. But with the age of only slightly above 15 they do not have emotional maturity or enough experience to take important decisions. During these ages they are living in world that full of adventures and mysterious. Due to their curiosity
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Prepubescent/pubescent are underrated adults. Since adult independence begins at the age of eighteen‚ most medical decisions for the children under eighteen are being made by their parents. However‚ research has shown that children are capable of making ’adult’ decisions by the age of eleven (e.g. medical decisions). Children should be allowed legally to make their own medical decision at the age of twelve because they are underrated‚ they are capable of great thinking at age eleven‚ and there are
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Should Adolescent be allowed to Make Their Own Life and Death Decisions? Advances in biomedical technology have to cures that were only imagined a few years ago (Stein‚ et al. 2001). New ethical dilemmas have been brought into medical care of patients by these advances‚ especially those with life-threatening condition. Decisions for medical treatment must include a thorough understanding of the procedure and major side effects‚ especially pain and disability and their duration (Stein
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Should parents allow teenagers to make their own decisions? A highly debatable topic indeed. Young adults or still children? I think there would be several schools of thoughts on this particularly controversial issue. Parents in different cultures tend to follow specific sets of instructions usually passed down generations. They believe‚ the moral values they were taught were for the good enough. Those times were tough but they lasted them their entire lives. They don’t remember how they could
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think farther. Therefore‚ they always make decisions for their teenage children. This may affect teenagers’ futures because they will become dependent on their parents and they will not be able to make their own decisions correctly. They will neither have their own goals nor ambitions because everything in their lives is made up and decided by their parents. They end up not knowing how to deal with responsibilities as they grow up. They will not have proper decision making skills because their parents
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You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Write about the following topic: Children over 15 years should be allowed to make decisions about their lives without the interference of their parents or teachers. Society should accept that children mature at a younger age these days and should adjust the law accordingly. Discuss this statement in relation to your own society or a society that you know well. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge
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Although not unanimously supported‚ the use of pre-embryonic diagnosis to screen for disease is generally accepted‚ this however leads to debate about how much freedom people should be allowed to make decisions about their future children. The issues arise as it is difficult to take an objective view on the topic‚ with many factors affecting peoples’ views. As there is in fact already a process of natural selection‚ perhaps it would be best to allow this to progress at its natural rate. On the other
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After becoming deeply engaged to The Giver’s plot and way of life‚ I have concluded that it would not be appropriate for Jonas’ community to be allowed to make their own choices. I believe this because of many reasons. Firstly‚ no one in Jonas’ community but the Receiver of Memory and his successor have memories of the past. Giving the people choice would only cause them to repeat sorrowful mistakes‚ since they do not know any better. The Giver says so himself when he recalls the experience of when
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Everyone has rights when they enter the world. Everyone is always told to make pleasing choices in one’s life. What might happen if everyone was allowed to make their own decisions? What would our society become? Underage activities‚ disobedience to authorities and parents‚ and illegal activities involving the government are just some of the reasons why people shouldn’t decide for themselves. Concerning this topic‚ minors can opt to participate in underage activities such as drinking‚ driving‚ and
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Why should you not be allowed to make decisions about your own body? About yourself? We should respect when people want to die‚ when people have a disease that definitely won´t go away then we should allow these people to die. You are also not selfish‚ because everybody has to respect the one who wants to die. When the person doesn´t want to live anymore‚ doesn´t want to ask for help from others and doesn´t want to suffer anymore then you should allow an end to their misery. It´s your own body‚
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