Should parents allow their children to choose their own careers

I look forward to this debate :) Resolved: parents should allow their children to choose their career on their own. First, some definitions: Children- A young human being below the age of full physical development or below the legal age of majority (18). Parents- A legal guardian to children Career- An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress. Framework: My opponent has the burden of proving that it would be in the best interest for the children if we let them choose whatever career they wanted to without the consent of their parents. Folks, we hear children all the time talking about what they want to be when they grow up. An astronaut, the President, a pirate to name a few examples. Children are ambitious. What they want to do with their lives changes all the time. How does it change you ask? Influence by the media. It is sad yet true that the media and what children watch these days are filled with drugs, sex, and rock & roll. And if the TV show itself is not filled with drugs, sex, and rock & roll, than the actors and actresses in such shows are. Such examples of this are The Jersey Shore, 16 and Pregnant, or Zoey 101. And it is not just TV shows. It is the products that children are given. Dolls, for instance, portray skinny gorgeous girls in slutty outfits. The company "Monster High Dolls", for instance. In my sources I will put a link to an example. Some doll companies now even sell the clothing that their dolls wear in larger sizes so that children can wear them. Lace, fishnets, and lipstick. Children will see these television shows, movies, advertisements, and products and want to be just like the people portrayed in them. The media's values are low, so children's will as well. These traits and morals will stick with children until they are able to get a career. As my opponent says, children want careers that include doing things that they enjoy. Inevitably, they will grow up to want jobs such as prostitution. In Asia, where control on what a child does with his or her life is limited, child prostitution is at an all time high. According to Wikipedia, In Thailand specifically, Children make up 40% of the prostitutes in said country. In India, it is estimated that 1.2 million children are involved in prostitution. In Indonesia, UNICEF estimates that 30% of the female prostitutes are below 18. In Sri Lanka, there are nearly 40,000 child prostitutes, according to UNICEF and ILO. In the Philippines, there are 60,000 to 100,000 prostituted children, according to UNICEF and non-governmental organisations. In Nepal, according to research conducted by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on 440 prostitutes from Kathmandu, approximately 30% of them were found to be children. In Bangladesh, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimated in 2004 that there were 10,000 underage girls used in commercial sexual exploitation in the country, but other estimates placed the figure as high as 29,000. There are estimated to be at least 70,000 prostitutes in Vietnam, and 20,000 of these are children. As you can see, we obviously need parents to help decide what career their children decide to take-up. It is not just prostitution, There is rise in gangs, theft, and murder. We need to teach our children values, then perhaps they can make a decision independently. May I also point out that the film my opponent mentions, 3 idiots, is a comedy about "Two friends embark on a quest for a lost buddy. On this journey, they encounter a long forgotten bet, a wedding they must crash, and a funeral that goes impossibly out of control." according to IMDB and I do not see how in anyway how that ties in with this debate unless she thinks that children should be able to crash weddings as they please. In conclusion, Children are naive and need the input of their parents to decide what job they should take up. And if they want to do something terrible with their lives such as prostitution or murdering people for money, than it is the parents responsibility to decide on a real job for them. The con believes that children should do whatever they want to with their lives as long as it is something that they love, even if that includes having sex with strangers, robbing people, or being a mafia wife; and that these children's parents should support what they want to do. SOURCES http://monsterhighdolls.net... http://monsterhighdolls.net... http://en.wikipedia.org... http://www.imdb.com...