Does parental permissiveness affect children's development?

Arguments
1. The excessive permissiveness of present-day parents is doing more
harm than good to children and society as well.
2. Children should develop the habit of working and living independently
and, meanwhile, practise the virtue of being filial to their parents.
3. Children who have a surfeit of happiness in their child hood often
emerge like stodgy puddings and fail to make a success of life.
4. The fact that young people nowadays are self-centred, indifferent
and inconsiderate 'of others is largely the outcome of parental
permissiveness in their childhood.
5. Parental authority in a family helps a child to develop his
character healthily.
6. Parents should exercise strict discipline over their children because,
the more permissive the parents are, the more rebellious against their
parents the children will become.
7. Lavish care and excessive permissiveness will only give rise to
hedonism among the younger generation.
8. If one lets the child do whatever he wants to, he will ruin
the child for life.
9. We have to admit the fact that we now have got a generation of spoilt,
self-centred brats with no respect for their elders.
10. The spread of juvenile delinquency in our age is largely due
to parental permissiveness.

Counter-arguments
1. More care for children is not the same as permissiveness to them.
2. The truth is that parents nowadays do not take enough care of their
children and often neglect their development because the parents are
only interested in their careers.
3. Parents are not at all permissive to their children. Violence often
takes place in families in which children are abused.
4. Only a relaxed family atmosphere can help the physical and psychological
growth of children.
5. To let children do what they like contributes to their independence
and competence in their adult lives.
6. It is unfair to blame parents for the spread of juvenile delinquency.
There are a lot of other causes involved.
7. Many cases show that children leave home and become members of street
gangs just because they can not bear authoritarian control over them by
their parents.
8. Strict discipline does not always work in terms of developing children's
personal qualities. Too much pressure on children leads to rebellion and
other extreme actions.
9. Parents are not justified in using violence to keep discipline and
maintain their authority over the children.
10. Children are human beings, too. They need to be protected instead
of being frequently scolded or physically abused.