1) Children maturing early can increase social problems like illegal racing, drug abuse, and teenage pregnancy. 2) Early maturation can also negatively impact health through issues like smoking leading to cancer and increased risk of diseases from early sexual activity. 3) The safety of children who mature early may be threatened if they are out late without permission, increasing risks like kidnapping.

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Pre-writing (Clustering / Mind Map)
Thesis Statement: Effects of children maturing early in life will increases in social problem, health related issues and safety level.
Effects of children mature at a younger age
Increases in the number of social problem
Illegal racing with friends
drug abuse
teenage pregnancy
Decreases in health's level
Smoking will lead to lung cancer.
Cigarette contains nicotine. Nicotine will lead to addiction to smoking.
Sexual related diseases : HIV,AIDS
Decreases in safety level
Kidnap will occur
Family member will worry about the safety of children when children go out at night without their permission of thinking about their safety.

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NAME : LAU MAO HUA
STUDENT ID : 0320249
MODULE : ENGLISH 1
SESSION : AUGUST 2014
QUESTION NUMBER : 1

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Effects of Children Mature at A Younger Age
Recently, children are getting more mature. Some people said that children over 15 should be allowed to make decisions about their lives without the inference of their parents. Children maturing early in life were caused by several factors such as society, parents, friends and other. Law should not be adjusted according to children mature at a younger age because it will lead to some grave effects. Effects of children maturing early in life will increase in the number of social problem, health related issues and safety level.
First of all, children mature early in life will lead to increases in the number of social problem. Children will involve in social problem such as illegal racing, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy and other problems. Illegal racing not only involved in motorcycles but also involved in cars. Illegal racing mostly occurs at late night with a few numbers of racers. Children will lead to death if accident is occurs by unexpected. Most of the children involved in illegal racing are instigate by their friends which is older than them. Most of the children involved in drug abuse are inference by their friends. According to the research by National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Alcohol, Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA are public abused drug used by the children. Children are not concentrated on what they do after they had the drug. For example, teenage pregnancy will be occurred after the children had the drug such as MDMA. Children are blurred after they had the drug. Children do whatever they like such as having sexual activity and finally will lead to teenage pregnancy.
Besides that, children mature early in life will also lead to health related issues. Smoking should be prohibited at any time and any person. Cigarette contains nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, DDT and formaldehyde. Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer-causing compounds and 400 other toxins. Nicotine only needs six seconds to reach the brain and it is highly addictive. Long-term smoking will cause to lung cancer. According to the Cancer Research UK, around 35,400 people died from lung cancer in 2012, which are around 97 peoples every day. Children under 18 years old in Malaysia

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are blanket ban to purchase cigarette. Children will suffer from sexual related disease if they involved in sexual activity. HIV and AIDS are two common sexual related diseases in Malaysia. Even though children used a condom during sexual activity, but it does not provide 100% safety to the children. Abstinence is the best way to prevent HIV and AIDS diseases. AIDS and HIV cannot be cured nowadays because no medicine or surgery can kill the entire virus.
Children mature early in life will affect the safety level. After the children are matured, children are not willing to pay attention the advice given by their parents. Children like to go out at night with friends and sometimes did not get the permission from their parents. Kidnap will occur if the children are going out late at night without accompany of their parents. The probability of kidnap occur without the accompany of parents is higher than with the accompany of parents because it is easier to kidnap. Family members will worry about the safety of the children if the children go out at late night without the permission of their parents. Family members will think about the safety of the children is their children been kidnapped or having accident if their children come back late. Children below age are not allowed to drive because most of the car accidents are occur among the teenage. Family members will worry about the safety of the children if the children are driving unaccompanied at any time because accident might be occur at anytime and anywhere.
Last but not least, children mature early in life will result in many effects. Increases in the number of social problems, health related problem and safety level are the effects of children mature early in life. Law should not be adjusted according to the children maturity at all time. Law should be maintained to protect the children from danger. Everyone should be in charge to protect the children because children are future front-runner of the century.

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