Parents
The insecurity of the parents is rising in the urban as well as the rural areas, even though in most cases it perhaps is not identified as an issue to be addressed with seriousness. I am talking about the 'parenting issue' that includes the struggle of the cultural transition and its ill outcome (due to open media, unawareness, national policies etc.); the struggle of the youth getting hooked to addictive substances and behaviour and the struggle of the 'home' unable to produce productive values in the young minds.
Where I work, I often hear parents crying in despair that they never knew their son would lead himself to such a crisis and he was never like this, etc. The chances of youth going off track would be there no matter how good a parent is but that chance multiplies with each unintended faulty parenting. Also the fact remains that the child is growing in a place side by side with the parents under the same roof where the parents have so much little to make an impact on his/her child's mind because of the open media, peers and negative trends. The TV set decides, the billboard decides, the radio decides, the internet decides, the movies decide who they are really going to be.
When we, the parents are in such a dilemma, one should really step out of the mainstream trend of parenting and perceive the issue from their own social demography and look into revising their plan of bringing up the children.
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