do teenagers misuse the freedom given to them?

Answer 1

well this is in fact a difficult question to answer.it is not necessary that teenagers misuse freedom given to them.it happens only when there is no proper parental guidance.when proper parental guidance is ensured i don't see a reason as to why freedom should be misused?

Answer 2

Almost everybody misuses freedom. Freedom is never absolute and it comes with responsibilities and many people either forget that or want to deny that.

The real issue is that a lot of times teenagers don't get given enough freedom and so they don't get a chance to practice with it, so when they do find themselves in a situation where they have to make a decision it is often the wrong one.

Of course teenagers are going to make mistakes but those are necessary mistakes on the road to learning how to be responsible.

Freedom has to be given gradually, not all at once as soon as someone reaches the age of majority.

Answer 3

Which teenagers? Some teenagers aren't given any freedom and some are given way too much in my opinion. It's not really a question that can be asked generally.

As a rule, I think teenagers are hard-wired to push any boundaries that are set for them, it's what learning to be an adult is all about, but personally I think I did abuse the freedom my parents gave me. They were pretty easy on me anyway, allowing me to go to nightclubs and all-night parties when I was only 15 or 16, because they trusted me. Did I abuse that trust? Sometimes, a little, but that was me.

Answer 4

i would more say they step out of the boundaries society tries to place on them

you have to remember, that not much more then 100 years ago, there really wasnt a "teenage" category to define that age, you were either a child, then by the teen years, especially after 16 or so, you became an adult, you worked , married, had children etc etc

even up threw the 1960's, people married young and moved out on their own,

so i think the problem is that society changed, didnt need all those workers and did need people to be better educated, so the teenage concept was created, yet the mentality of people in this age range didnt change
think about it, if at 13 or 14 you knew in a couple of years you would be in your own home, out from under parental control, your attitude would be different, just like nowdays the teens often start settling down around 17 or 18, they know their time of total freedom is coming soon!

Answer 5

Teenagers have existed for 100,000 years and have been abusing freedoms for that time because this is the period in which they are pushing the boundaries to discover what is possible.

I think wise parents expect teens to break the rules because that is the only way they will experience the consequences. It is only by consequences that they learn.

You just have to hope that the consequence isn't death.

I think teens are wired to break the rules.

I was looking at some old photos of my mother in law taken in the early to mid sixties.

She wore skirts that were so short that I told my step son he has to wait until he is sixteen before he can look at those shots of his Grandma.

Now of course Grandma is the most conservative person we know BUT when she was a teen, three generations ago, she was abusing her freedoms.

Answer 6

Freedom? That's interesting.

Because I do not necessarily understand what you mean by freedom, I cannot really answer that. Children are born slaves - slaves to the whims of the adults all around them. They are controlled by the government, their parents, their sitters, their teachers, and on and on. They have beliefs shoved down their throats. They are persecuted if they do not "conform" to their parents ideas, to school standards, etc. Further, they are treated more like objects and possession than like people. They are the "property" of their parents.

So, I think I rather believe that adults misuse their freedom. They misuse it to subjugate others.

That leads me to this question: Do adults abuse the freedom that is given to them to reign over teenagers and children in general?

I guess I can answer that according to my take on "freedom." The answer has to be "no" because the freedom does not exist.

Answer 7

Without a doubt. When I was a kid you earned certain freedoms by showing your parents you were responsible enough to make wise decisions. As you got older and wiser you were accorded more freedoms. Today's teens have all the freedoms but not a lot of the wisdom required to make the correct choices. Sometimes when one "wants" something, it doesn't mean that they "should have" it. I have to laugh sometimes at what my son presumes life was like when I was a child. You would thing that guns, drugs, gangs, and acne didn't exist when I was a teen. I really believe he thinks I rode a dinosaur to school or something.

Answer 8

It's not like they play any games to make the parents go crazy and give them the freedom they want to have. The way they behave is part of human nature. Them not living it out damages their personality. Parents should not start teaching them what is important in life when they become teenagers, they should do it from the beginning.

Example: if a child wonders why adults drink alcohol and what its effects are, let him/her get drunk under your supervision. Most likely, they will not have enjoyed it and forget about it. They might drink alcohol as an adult, but most likely will they do it respnsibly. They won't keep asking themselves "why do they do it" or "how does it feel like", and they won't have to prove their courage in silly child's games involving alcohol. And if they do, they will know what to expect and how to engage it.

Answer 9

I think most do, at least to some extent. I know I did. I am a teenager of the 70s, and I did all kind of wild things with my peers. Adolescence for most people is about rebelling, and I did that well. I just consider myself lucky that nothing really awful happened to me. I think the harder the parent is on a child, the more likely they are to be rebellious.

Answer 10

teenagers aren't free, parents forget that and confuse their children. Thus the children go into depression over it.
A human isn't free while leaching off another for support, they are a child, an adult is self sufficient in every way.