If a five-year old commits a crime, should his/her parents take the responsibility and how should the parents be punished? What should be the age of a child when parents no longer take the responsibility for his or her behavior?
There is a controversial question about the punishment for parents whose children commit crimes. Personally, I believe they should share some responsibilities with their juvenile delinquents, and I also think that 18 is the legal age when a child is fully responsible for his or her actions.
To begin with, parents should take responsibilities for the crimes of their juvenile delinquents. This is because they are the ones who have the most influence on their children. Indeed, in the formative years, youngsters spend most of their time with their fathers and mothers, and they often imitate the behaviors of their parents. In addition, as children are those who have not fully developed, they need the help of parents to distinguish between the right and wrong. Therefore, if young people commit crimes, it is most likely the faults of their parents, so that the parents should be punished.
However, it is difficult to determine the proper punishment for fathers and mothers whose children violate the law. Firstly, as they are only partially responsible for what has happened, governments cannot put all the blame on parents. After all, they are not the ones who actually commit crimes, and there are other factors that influence the wrongdoing of children, such as the adult contents on the media or the peer pressure from bad friends. In my opinion, I believe the best punishment is for authorities to ask parents to pay a large amount of fine, and demand one of them to stay at home watching their children. By doing this, parents can have more time to keep an eye on their offsprings, so that they could have more chance to correct the wrongdoing of these juvenile delinquents.
It is also difficult to decide the maturity age of children, as it depends on the culture and personality of children. For instance, Asian children often live with parents, so that they are less mature than their peers in Western countries. However, the widely accepted age is 18, as it is when people begin their adulthood.
In conclusion, parents should take partial responsibility for the wrongdoings of their children, and the maturity age of children should be 18.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, firstly, however, if, so, therefore, after all, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 24.0651302605 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1801.0 1615.20841683 112% => OK
No of words: 362.0 315.596192385 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97513812155 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36191444098 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79116683726 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497237569061 0.561755894193 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 542.7 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 2.10420841683 428% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 0.809619238477 618% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.1360989302 49.4020404114 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.5625 106.682146367 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.625 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.375 7.06120827912 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.279793277555 0.244688304435 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108640897275 0.084324248473 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.116056355619 0.0667982634062 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206421660188 0.151304729494 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.124424676489 0.056905535591 219% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.4159519038 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.58950901804 91% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 78.4519038076 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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