[b]Does parental permissiveness affect children's development?[/b] [b]Arguments[b][/b][b]1. The excessive pennissiveness of present-day parents is doing more harm than good to children and society as well.[b]2. Children should develop the habit of working and living independently and, meanwhile, practise the virtue of being filial to their parents.[b]3. Children who have a surfeit of happiness in their childhood often emerge like stodgy puddings and fail to make a success of life.[b]4. The fact that young people nowadays are self-centred, indifferent and inconsiderate of others is largely the outcome of parental permissiveness in their childhood.[b]5. Parental authority in a family helps a child to develop his character healthily. [b]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.[b]7. Lavish care and excessive permissiveness will only give rise to hedonism among the younger generation.[b]8. If one lets the child do whatever he wants to, he will ruin the child for life.[b]9. We have to admit the fact that we now have got a generation of spoilt, selfcentred brats with no respect for their elders.[b]10. The spread of juvenile delinquency in our age is largely due to parental pennissiveness. [b]Counter-argmnents[/b][b][b]1. More care for children is not the same as permissiveness to them.[b]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.[b]3. Parents are not at all permissive to their children. Violence often takes place in families in which children are abused.[b]4. Only a relaxed family atmosphere can help the physical and psychological growth of children.[b]5. To let children do what they like contributes to their independence and competence in their adult lives.[b]6. It is unfair to blame parents for the spread of juvenile delinquency. There are a lot of other causes involved.[b]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.[b]8. Strict discipline does not always work in terms of developing children's personal qualities. Too much pressure on children leads to rebellion and other extreme actions.[b]9. Parents are not justified in using violence to keep discipline and maintain their authority over the children.[b]10. Children are human beings, too. They need to be protected instead of being frequently scolded or physically abused.