What do you make out of this story, should we really allow our children to live such a lifestyle like gambling and night clubbing, most especially, when they are still under aged?
Let's discuss about this..
I think people from the United States lives more liberally than the conservative countries. What looks like a taboo to us may not be the case in the other country and is a natural thing to them. Saying anything against the other when we have different cultures is a biased thing IMO. But what I got from the story is that the son of Michael Jordan, Marcus Jordan is very lucky to have a father that enables to support him with lots of money. There is no doubt that there is a violation there but we know Money can make anyone who loves it turns blind.
That is why examples from parents are important in childrens' lives, because a parent is a mirror for his/her children. All the actions and behaviors a kid observes from his parents at home daily he is going to reproduce later when he grows up, especially if it's an example of success. In this situation, the son saw the father wasting money irresponsibly and without limits for many years, what didn't impact them financially negatively anyway, because they are wealthy. So, when he grew up, he did the same. But if this young had received an example of responsability and austerity from his father, he wouldn't waste 50,000$ like that in a single night of racket.
Exactly I don't really blame the child for blowing such an exorbitant amount in one night were his father lavished much more than that on gambling and drinking so the boy will follow in the father's footsteps, I don't know why some rich dads don't care about what they do before their kids and there by setting a bad example to the kids, knowing fully well that there are they children first role model and kids tend to follow the parent's footsteps.
The thing is the father spends his own money while the son spends his father's money.
So basically you cannot make that as an argument because it is Michael Jordan's right to spend his money anywhere he wanted while the child doesn't have any right to spend his father's money. But on the other note, I do agree with you, the father couldn't say anything because the son can just retaliate that he is only doing what he see's in his father.
The parent is alwasy been a role model for children. So anything the son saw on his father he tends to follow it because the son think that it is ok since his father does the same. So as a parent, we should be responsible to our action and do things that can give our kids a sample of being responsible and obedient to the law.