Underage drinkers 'should be taken into care'?

Question

Parents who refused to take responsibility for their children's underage drinking should have their children taken into care, a police chief has said.

The Chief Constable of Cheshire Police Peter Fahy was speaking one week after Warrington father-of-three Garry Newlove was allegedly attacked by a gang outside his home.

Mr Newlove, 47, died of his injuries on Sunday afternoon. Three teenagers are in custody and have been charged with murder.

Mr Fahy said: "There should be some form of sanction from the criminal justice system to force some parents to take up the offers of support which we give them to help them deal with their children who have been underage drinking. This should be a child protection issue and this should be dealt with as part of care proceedings."

Mr Fahy said that often when his officers take drunken teenagers home, parents are shocked, occasionally they do not care, and sometimes they are drunk themselves.

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What do you think?

Answer 1

There is no such thing in Britain as the criminal justice system and parents and kids know it.We have a system now that is totally focused on the criminals rights and the victim of crime can go to hell.At one time the justice system was about two things REHABILITATION AND PUNISMENT.The punishment was to DETER and the REHABILITATION was to put the criminal straight.Over many years with various governments bowing to small pressure groups the DETERENT is no more.The only thing we have now is a 5 STAR HOTEL CHAIN CALLED PRISON where prisoners are treat like film stars who regularly take the government to court and win payouts of thousands of pounds because their human rights were infringed.The prisons are now bursting at the seams because prisoners are released and within a few days are back in court and prison.This alone should tell anyone with half a brain there is something wrong with the system but we merrily go on making things even more comfotable for criminals.WE as a society have sown the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind and until someone has the strength to stand up and say enough is enough it will only get worse and it will not be too long before anaarchy takes over.

Answer 2

I laughed when I heard that these children should be taken into care. I think the Chief Constable is looking at care with rose coloured spectacles. it is not care it is a best maintenance with few if any core values. training in shoplifting dependence on the state and petty crime is the main education except for those placed long term with a very caring family

Incidentally I started drinking at 15 and became quickly aware as to when I had had enough or to much to drink. Later on when i was 18+ i was under no illusions from home that a hangover was no excuse for absence from work or getting on with life in general. i can still here my mother saying " Hangover! Hangover! self inflicted injuries!"

Answer 3

in the event that they're sufficiently previous to do the crime then they could desire to do the time, ideally in a boot camp. it may well be no solid putting them into care because of fact the supervision might nonetheless be non existent. the mothers and fathers additionally must undergo the accountability of their new child's strikes under the age of sixteen and there additionally must be a curfew on the time that they are allowed to run around the streets at nighttime. we've all have been given as much as mischief in our youthful days without our human beings looking out, yet we did no longer pass around vandalising different peoples aspects or inflicting anti social behaviour. there are a number of events that adolescents can do yet some are too lazy or they think of its un cool to do it. the final public of youthful human beings reason no subject and that's continually the comparable few those that are the subject, which in turn supplies upward push that all and sundry little ones are accountable. we could desire to continually help the in charge little ones extra and be extra solid on the undesirable ones.

Answer 4

I agree with Here's Johnny, raise the age limit. I work in a pub and find it really difficult to figure out the ages of young ones nowadays, especially the girls. It's got to the stage where I ID all of them if they are not regulars who have already been ID'd. Problem is though I've been told that they can get fake ID cards from the Internet.If age limit was 21 it would make my job a lot easier.

Answer 5

If alcohol was discovered today it would be banned but its not.
Cannabis grows in the wild, part of nature and is illegal. go figure. government cant make any money out of something that grows naturally. Kids will drink smoke and do whatever they can get away with. Putting them into care will only put more weight on an already overstretched resource that doesn't work properly anyway.

Answer 6

Last paragraph seems a reflection of Britain today!, but everyone seems to have so many ideas today which would not work - i.e. teens into care, drinking age raised to 21, driving licence at 18 etc.. anything for votes, am getting really tired of all these people!!

Answer 7

I think the parents should be taken into care with them. Discipline starts at home. Too many parents rely on the state to bring up their children.

Answer 8

The parents shouldn't be punished for something their kids did. We may be under 18 but we still know what we're doing and our parents are not to blame for something we did. Unless of course the parents are the ones who provided the alcohol.

Answer 9

Guy above alcohol should not be illegal look what happened in 20-30's in America, anyway they should raise the age limit and fine and jail the parents who let them do it, as well as raising prices that should sort it, but i agree with him on 'monkey see, monkey do'

Its Heres TOMMY Pama xD

Answer 10

Ban alcopops, that will stop a lot of underage drinking. When I was a teenager the best we could manage was lager and it tasted bloody awful.

Now kids can get pop that gets them p*ssed.