Common Worries: Parental Concerns About Children's Well-being

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Common worries
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COMMON WORRIES
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Common worries:
In the thousands of years of guardianship and other protective measures, four common
concern of parenthood highlighted in every piece of literature that people always has about their
children. These four worries are the following:
1. Lack of mental competency which enhances vulnerability:
It was observed that parents are being fearful that impaired mentality or judgments might
make their children victims to exploitation in terms of financial exploitation and sexual
exploitation (Kaiser et al., 2016).
Actions:
• Parents may not create a safe environment based on a stronger relationship with immediate
family members as well as extended family members (Sun & Smith, 2017).
• Parents may not provide access to more flexible and appropriate supportive care to the child
for minimizing exploitation and provide education from childhood for avoiding exploitation.
2. The dangerousness of person to others:
Dahrendorf (2017), highlighted that parents are fearful that the harmful tendency of one person
may cause harm to other person and this can be through sexual or criminal behavior of the
person.

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Actions
• Parents may not teach children self-management skills from early childhood to reduce the
harmful behavior of children to others
• Parents may not communicate with children to change the harmful at an early age before it
harms another person.
3. Poor quality of life:
Thomsen (2016), argued that in the majority of the cases parents of early that their
children may be subjected to risk of accident, chronic health care issues or cannot survive in the
current work that leads to poor quality of life.
Actions:
• Parents may never let children out of their sight due to fear
• Parents may scold children for choosing the poor quality of life.
4. Fear of being subjected to social destruction:
Majority of parents become apprehensive that their children may be subjected to social
destructions such as bully or ridicule due to the vulnerable to children.
Actions:
• Parents may impulsive steps to reduce the behavior to reduce the effect of social destructions
(Young & Rabiner, 2015).
• Parents may never let children out of their sight because of fear.