When is a Child Free to Make Their Own Decision?
The only error in humanistic calculations is that part of its reference is nature with a capital N, and nature in its expression is a manifestation of Gods creation on earth. This is not just a statement, but a fact best demonstrated by the Sciences, and the Liberal Arts. So when humanists call for children to be left free to make their own decision, it is pretty difficult if children as a apart of creation are products of nature. In the secular world, childhood has pretty much become caught up with adult notions. A child can be a child-adolescent-adult at anytime from the age of 10 21, and then it depends on how the real adult defines their action at that given moment. For a child to make a decision, a child would have to first question the action, or the adult would have to give that child a choice. In Islam, the developmental needs of a child are more flexible. The family is responsible for the care and upbringing of the child until the child is bulugh (has reached the age of discre
