­Last weekend I stayed in Boston at my friends' place. I fell in love
with the town – so unusually European in architecture – unlike the
rest of the US and a great academic environment with all the hospitals
and medical centers. The friends' residence is at a distance from the
city and surrounded by some other residential cottages and a beautiful
forest. The charming impression was spoiled very soon though. The very
first night a fight occurred next door which ended with police
arriving. It was a usual occurrence with the neighbours – a mother and
her teenage daughter- my friends explained later.  Every time they
disagreed on some matter the daughter would call the police. Sometimes
though, the mother happened to call first and the daughter was taken
away. Fights are common there and every time they end up with the
police blocking off  the whole area causing a huge inconvenience for
the other residents.

It seems American kids intimidate their parents with police on a
regular basis… and on every minor occasion. I can't help but
remember here the story of Pavlik Morozov – the Soviet era
teenage-hero famous for informing on his rich father to the Soviet
authorities. Even though he was presented as an example to all the
Soviet kids, we –  schoolchildren- hated him and couldn't understand
what drove him. But here in the US, it seems to be normal for children
to turn over their parents to police when they refuse to buy them an
ice-cream or send them to the bed early.

Many American parents have to live in fear of their children, as they
blackmail the elderly. Some Americans believe, such extent of freedom
helps the minors to make better choices and brings them up as good US
citizens. how about something like American’s with their strong
emphasis on personal freedom appear to have taken it too far in the
belief that allowing children maximum freedom the minors will
ultimately make better choices and become good US citizens.OK, I
agree.. but what's next?  What if your child made the choice to hit
you, take drugs or destroy your neighbor’s property? And after all
that call the police when you try to stop them?

While encouraging minors to be, as they call it, "free and standing on
their own two feet", American society is corrupting them. Apparently,
one motto is missing here, a very important  one. It reads:"One
person's freedom ends where another person's freedom begins". So, one
day, your grandchildren will call the police on your own kids.

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