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Responsibilities of parents for children
Parents have to fulfill various responsibilities for their children’s physical, mental, social,
economical and emotional development. Parents can support their children for their
overall development in life. Some of the major responsibilities are described below:

a. Management of income sources
Parents have important role in the family for the maintenance of peace, prosperity and
stability. Actually, the income of family has vital role for all of them. Sufficient income is
required to fulfill all the needs of family. Parents must maintain balance between income
and expenditure in family. When there is balance between income and expenditure, there
is high chance that all the family members fulfill their requirements. Even there is increase
of saving which can be utilized for various purposes in future. Moreover, there is high
chance of improvement of living standard of all the family members.

b. Provision of education
Education is very important for everyone. It makes
people knowledgeable and skillful. It supports
people for career development and makes people
able to face many challenges in life as well as
take right and responsible decisions. It is the
responsibility of parents to educate their children
and encourage them to go to school. Parents need
to teach good words, good manners and good
characters to their children since childhood. It is Fig: 24
also the responsibility of parents to make children
independent, self reliant, successful, efficient and responsible citizens for nation. Actually,
the educated parents support their children in developing self confidence to become
responsible citizen of nation.

c. Fulfillment of childrens’ need
After the birth of a child, it is the major duty of
parents to care and look after him/her. Parents
must provide healthy and nutritious food,
better clothing, clean and safe drinking water,
entertainment activities and healthy environment
for their proper growth and development. It is
the responsibility of parents to fulfill the needs of
children and plan for their overall development.
Similarly, to help children in socialization, Fig: 25
protect them from hunger, prevent diseases and
insecurity, understand the feelings and interest, behave according to their wish, respect
child right are also the responsibility of parents. When parents fulfill the needs of children,
they tend to remain happy and satisfied. Hence, there is improvement of living standard
of people.

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