Should children have a say in family decisions?

by Ramalingam Subramaniam

Should children have a say in family decisions ? Your children are your dependants when they are minors, requiring your moral, physical and financial support.Even after attaini...read more

by Carol Gioia

Navigating life successfully requires daily choices and decisions, both large and small. Should children in the family have a say in these decisions? At what point are childre...read more

by Joelle Synclair

If I allowed my children to make the family decisions I would have neon green walls and ice cream for dinner every night. However, if I allow my children to engage in the decisi...read more

by Ann D Garrett

As a mother of two boys, ages 7 and 3, I feel it is important that my children have a voice in the family. I have taught them that their voices will be heard and their suggestio...read more

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by Matt Remley

Should children have a say in family decisions? I won't lie, I'm probably not the best person to be talking about this subject seeing as I don't have any kids at this point i...read more

by Michelle Zimmerman

I have two children ages 11 and 9. I try to teach my children that the way to be a successful person is to have knowledge and opinions. I believe the only way for children to gr...read more

by Rich Rivers

Today is different from the stereotype family of yesterday where children just sit and listen as parents rant and decide what is to be done in the family. Today, children could...read more

by Renee Morgan

Why do we ask this question? Isn't the children a part of the family, too? If the children are capable of understanding what is going on then, yes. If they are not old enoug...read more

by J P Burton

Nobody knows the innocence of a child more then the one who was robbed of it. Save your heart strings, I survive, as all life is designed to do, but growing up too fast prompts ...read more

by Ellen Anolik

The operative work here is "family". Before one can determine if children should have a say in family decisions; one needs to ascertain some factors including the age of the chi...read more

by Becca Cougill

Being the mother of six children, I have a unique perspective on this. I have four girls and two boys. There ages range from 6 to 15. I was raised in a home where the attitude w...read more

by Todd Pheifer

When you talk about family decisions, you are talking about things that theoretically affect the "whole" family. While this may seem very obvious to say, it is important to not...read more

by Peter S. Ng

I think children should be drawn into family decisions to some degree. It is part of the learning process. Of course, as parents, it is our responsibility to help our kids to l...read more

by Bill Whitney

This is again a question that has a it depends on what the decision is about answer. There are many decisions that I think that input from the children should be considered. t...read more