Responsibilities of an adult

Much is heard today about the violations of human
rights. The idea behind forming a statement, of responsibilities is that ‘rights’ for adults are accompanied by
responsibilities.

Some Principles of the responsibilities of adults

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To One’s God

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To One’s Community

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To One’s Family

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To One’s Self

To one’s
god

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To know God and to worship Him

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To recognize His latest Manifestation and be
obedient to His laws

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To pray and read the Word of God each day

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To teach others about God’s Word

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To contribute to one’s religion

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To consort with people of all religions in a spirit
of friendliness and fellowship

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To respect all of God’s creatures and creation.

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To One’s Community or Society

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To be obedient to one’s government

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To contribute to the welfare of the poor, handicapped,
elderly, and orphaned

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To have a sense of world citizenship

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To have a sense of community citizenship

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To serve one’s fellowman

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To work for world unity and peace

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To work for universal understanding and language

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To support the elimination of prejudices

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To support the equal rights of men and women,
races,
varied cultures and religions

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To support the development of science, the arts,
and culture

To one’s
family

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To teach one’s children about religion

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To be happy and love one another

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To develop strong unified families and respect the
rights of each individual

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To support one’s family and children

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To educate one’s children

To one’s
self

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To sincerely and honestly investigate the Truth and
overcome superstitions and vain imaginations

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To be moral and improve one’s character

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To earn a living by a trade, craft or profession

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To become educated and informed

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To be moderate and balanced in one’s consumption

Other responsibilities of an adult:

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Responsible to wake up on time

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To raise your children well e.g. education,
feeding, health care

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To pay for your own contraceptives and that of your
wife.

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You are responsible for being a childhood role
model by showing the difference between right and wrong.

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You are responsible to strive to succeed and not to
be a failure.

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Responsible for your own life

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Provide social security and medicare

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Being a good citizen and to observe solemn duties
to make the nation better than you found it and abiding to the constitutions
and set rules of the country

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Continue to educate yourself.

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To pay your bills

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Get a good job

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To eat what you want

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To take care of your own health

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You are responsible to show the characteristics and
duties of independency.

i.
Provide protection

ii.
provision of home

iii.
career and achievement.

iv.
decide what is wrong and what is right

v. have
your own understanding

vi.
create financial support for the family

There are undoubtedly more rights
and responsibilities than one could exhaustively list. There are rights and
responsibilities between employers and employees, governments and their
citizens, marriage partners and their spouses, children and their parents, and
many other combinations that could be named.

The smallest infant, of course
has only rights and no responsibilities. It is as one begins to mature that
they gain responsibilities. It is for this reason, that they may mature, that
young children should start to be given responsibilities starting from a very
young age.

In any relationship the responsibilities of the
partners to the relationship may, and indeed usually will, differ. Thus it is
that governments will have one set of responsibilities and its citizens
another. Employers one and employees another. Even within marriages there are
defined areas of responsibilities. This is not to say that all citizens,
employees, marriage partners, or children within a family are not equal.

Equality, however, is often a chimera. Both the
needs and capabilities of individuals differ. Consequently, the rights and
responsibilities of an older sibling will often be radically different from
those of a younger. Such distinctions apply to the whole of the family of man.
Those individuals with particular needs, or talents, must be given special
consideration to satisfy those needs, or develop those talents.

The pressing need of individual humanity today is
for Justice. The pressing need of collective humanity today is for Unity. When
unity is achieved by mankind peace will naturally ensue. Many persons today
mistakenly believe that peace is the most pressing need of mankind today, but
true and lasting peace will not be just the absence of war, it will be the
result of the unification of mankind. If this unification is accompanied by
Justice it will also naturally result in prosperity.

The unity of mankind does not presuppose the
homogenization of mankind. There can be, indeed must be, diversity in unity.
For mankind to fulfill its potential it must display all the diversity and
variety in the human garden that is seen, by analogy, in a beautifully cultured
flower bed.

These, then, are the ideals that the mature
thinker, or if you will, that the mature soul must strive towards in this day.
To the degree, and only to the degree, that more and more of humanity becomes
composed of mature and responsible adults will the heavenly kingdom appear on
earth. It is the responsibility of each one of us to strive towards that goal.
This is a preliminary attempt to develop a statement of the responsibilities of
a mature adult.