Children

I am a lucky soul. I have parents to take care of me and help me and most importantly guide me. Society can be a pretty stressful entity. It requires of an individual a lot of input in terms of right attitudes and behaviours. Also taxes on individuals capability to show restraint and composure. Society is very sensitive too. It has to be given the right amount of importance or it demolishes an individual in more than one way. All these skills of handling society are not innate to any human beings. We are all animals afterall. We are not born with this golden spoon in our mouth. We learn all these things from our parents. First when we are young we do so by the mere act of copying whatever our parents do. Then as we gain rational insight the process becomes more of a dialogue with our inner self and what our parents act expect us to behave.
   Having said and thought all that think for a second about a child who has lost his parents at a very early stage in life. How is he to become a capable individual of this society? If he doesn't learn anything who is to blame? Does he deserve less of a punishment for the crimes he commits?
   It is an established fact that children born and bred in broken families are more violent have more psychiatric problems and have higher tendency to break the law. Thus a large majority of inmates in the jails are those who could not get a chance to imitate their parents or think like them. All they ever did was think for them or about them.
   There is another side of the story too. It is common observation that most children who make it big in their adult life as leaders, rulers, politicians, educators, scientists, discoverers, inventors and artists were born or bred in single parent or split family environment. Most of them had suffered the loss of either parent at early age.