Is there a dua a parent could make for the children to have good companions?

Answer

It is the Waajib duty of parents to ensure that their children do not associate with company. In the present age of moral depravity there are no good companions for children. It is not permissible to allow children to cultivate friendship. Today is the pornographic and drug age. Parents destroy their children actively by providing them with the devices of immorality and pornography (cell phones/computers), and by pretending that their children are becoming angels in the 'educational' brothels (schools and universities). When parents cast their children into the cauldron of vice, no dua will avail. Dua brings about barkat in endeavours which are correct. If parents fulfil their Islamic obligations towards their children by keeping them out of harm's way, then their dua will be effective. Every Dua made after Salaat, during the night and at all times is special and readily accepted by Allah Ta'ala, in whatever language the supplication is made. Parents should not expect dua to protect their daughter who is attending an immoral university. It is not possible to wade through a stream without getting wet. No one emerges morally unscathed from the cauldrons of immorality into which parents have dumped their children. In such circumstances when the dua is not effective, people will incline towards kufr by believing that the dua itself is devoid of benefit whereas they fail to understand that it is the evil being perpetrated which is rendering the dua ineffective or unacceptable to Allah Ta'ala.