by Alexis Jardin

Created on: July 19, 2010   Last Updated: July 21, 2010

Within the last decade several laws have been passed to protect children against their schools, the police and especially their parents. Kids can almost get away with anything, only getting reprimanded with a stern word and nothing else. These children realize this too, and have done whatever they please ever since they realized they could.

But has the law ever stopped to consider the parents? Where are their rights? How are they supposed to keep their children in line, or gain any sort of respect and adult authority? It would appear to me that it has officially become a children's world. As I have observed my parents' own family life I have realized that the system that our government has set up just does not work. We the American people are not raising our kids, but are striving just to keep them in line. Parents cannot raise their children. These kids will not allow themselves to be raised, all of them think they are more mature, that they know better, but just how much do they know?

Can they wake up every morning to a messy house thinking, how can I get my kids to pick up after themselves, meanwhile trying to figure out how to pay the rent, pay the bills, pay off debts, set up doctors appointments, deal with the court, finish paying off a lawyer you couldn't afford in the first place and still find some you time? I don't think a single child in my own parents home could handle even one minute doing what either of my parents to all day everyday.

Yet they complain! Yes, these children who live under my parents roof complain constantly. How they have the short end of the stick, the older kids complain because they have more responsibilities, the young think they should be getting more than they are. Forget the fact they all have their own bedrooms, or the fact they each have IPods, my parents let them spend weekends with their friends, the older kids have their own cell phones and none of them need to even think about groceries, bills or what to sell next to pay the rent on a house they had to have because the kids "needed" to have their own bedrooms.

In the past I was no angel, in fact I was most likely the same way my siblings are now, and for that I apologize. No parent should ever suffer the kind of abuse my parents suffer on a day to day basis. Just the other day my brother told my mother she has to by him guitar strings, she said she didn't have the money, so he offered to buy them but SHE had to pay him back..... He has his own money apparently, and

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