Are children of prisoners less likely to commit crimes if helped by mentors?
No child is born with bad genes. This is a fact. Some people think that children of prisoners are as bad as their parents. This is not true because every child could be taught and molded into an upright and pleasant person no matter how bad his parents are. The issue here is in how the child is reared and not in the kind of parents the child has. You can always mold a child to become a better person regardless of the type of parent the child has. Even children of criminals who are in prison could be taught the good values in life by mentors with the right approach. Teaching good values to children is better if you start while they are young. I don’t believe in the saying that a bad tree will bear bad fruits. As a teacher for many years, I have seen and experienced numerous behaviors from growing children, from the hyper-active, to the traumatic, to the serene and shy and the unpredictable child. The list goes on as children change every day and show different personalities in their gro
