Parents are considered responsible for their children until they reach the age of eighteen. Does this authority give parents the right to hound, and check up on their children when they are away from home? Does financial support play a role in the parents" jurisdiction over their children? I myself, being a fifteen year old do believe that parents deserve the right to check up on their children while they are away from home, unless the children have reached adulthood themselves. Children may be out into strenuous and difficult situations in which they may need their parent" assistance, due to the lack of maturity. Parents are likely to have faced the same situations and gone through the same obstacles and conflicts which children go through, therefore they have much more experience than their children to handle such problems. Children are considered the possessions of their parents until they reach the age of eighteen, therefore they are held accountable for any actions the teens end up taking, whether or not they are at home or away from home. Parents deserve the right to check up on their children while they are away from home due to their, maturity, experience, and responsibility over their children.
Mostly, in the modern era, strenuous and mind straining conflicts are encountered by people of all ages, especially children. One scenario, which comes to mind when touching this subject, is when my older cousin had been facing serious financial problems during his days away from home at an American university. Had his parents not kept in close touch with their son, they may have never found out about this problem, and may have not been given the chance to support their son with a little extra cash, which would most possibly have resulted in their son not completing his education, and obtaining his degree. A second scenario which relates to this situation is if the child is living away from home and not getting the time to eat healthily due to a strenuous schedule which affects their overall health by a great deal.
