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题目:  In the past young people are more depended on their parents in making decision. Today, young people are better able to make decisions in their own lives.

Currently, the issue of young people making decisions has become of great concern to a point where a wide discussion has been aroused. Some people maintain that young was more not depended on their parents in making decisions in the past than they do today. However, to a large extent, I am on the opposite side of the claim and reckon than this claim is rife with holes and assumptions.

Firstly, in the past the productivity level was low and many people led a miserable life who needed to face the danger of starvation. The young people in a common rural family were forced to work in an early age in order to earn money to support their family. So there was little chance for them to make their own decisions. What they did was just planned by their parents. What is worse, they cannot even choose the woman who would become his wife. For instance, in ancient China the hierarchy was so strict that sons must obey to their parents and it was never allowed for sons to violate their parents which was illegal. Therefore whenever young people made a decision they had to ask for their parents' agreement. Sometimes their parents had already made decisions for their instead of young people themselves making decisions. As a result, in the past young people depend to a large extent on parents in making decisions.   

However, when in modern society, we are not worried about the scarcity of materials with high productivity level. So there will not exist the situation that young people are forced to work in an early age to support their family. At the same time, the modern people strive for freedom and liberty since people are satisfied with the ample materials. Thus the strict hierarchy only existed in the past and is gone as time goes by. What young people today are more concerned about is to display their own characteristics and they are more independent than past. Therefore young people prefer to make decisions on their own rather than relying on their parents.  In additionally Parents also encourage their children to deal with issues dependently, cultivate and improve their independence. As a consequence, youths are better able to make decisions in their own lives in today.