It is sometimes suggested that young people owe their parents nothing at all. Do you think such a statement is true? Write an essay giving your views.
As a new generation of youth appears, many issues have risen over the statement of whether young people should be filial to their parents and that everything they have is due to the hard work of their parents. This is especially so for Asian communities and societies where heavy emphasis has been placed on filial piety. However, the new generation of youth has adopted a mentality that young people do not owe their parents anything at all and this has thus sparked off much debate over this topic. Personally, I do not agree with this statement. Since young people depend on their parents for their needs and wants and parents raised their children up since young, young people owe everything to their parents.
The choice to have children lay in the hands of parents. Although parents foresaw the many difficulties of having children would bring, they still made the choice to raise a child. For most parents, they put in a lot of effort in creating an ideal environment for their child to grow up in. In addition, most of the time, it is due to parents’ efforts which has created and led young people to the right path in living the rest of their life. Therefore, this clearly shows that parents are responsible for both the future and well-being of their child and these young people thus owe everything to their parents.
Another reason why young people owe everything to their parents is due to their reliance on parents for basic needs. Due to today’s high-tech society, this has created a mind-set among young people that there is a need to be in possession of the latest game consoles, latest mobile phones and latest electronic gadgets. In order to obtain them, young people would thus have to fork out sums of money to pay for them. Young people often forget that this money which they are spending is money which their parents have earned. It was through their own hard work which allowed parents to manage to earn enough for the family. Young people often forget where the money that they spend come from and this causes them to believe that they owe their parents nothing at all. Therefore, as young people constantly rely on their parents for basic needs, such as money, Youth owe everything to their parents.
Some people might disagree with my stand as there is an increasing amount of Youth who are finding their own jobs to make money and therefore, parents do not solely support the young people and provide them with their needs and wants. Although I agree with their claims, one must also accept the fact that the reason why young people today are able to find a job and live comfortably in today’s society is because their parents had created a stable foundation of which these young people are allowed to progress and excel in life. In addition, before young people are even eligible to go out and work, their parents have been supporting them and providing for them ever since young. Therefore, this ultimately leads back to parents playing the biggest role in young people’s life and therefore young people owe everything to them.
No matter whether one might agree if young people owe everything or nothing to their parents, the most essential thing is that young people accept and respect their parents for nurturing and bringing them up since they were young. Most importantly, young people must take care of their parents no matter the situation, just like how their parents did so when they were young.
