POLL:
Do you think we should come down hard with the parents of children who break the law time and time again?
2007-09-03 19:34:14 · 13 answers · asked by misskitti7® 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
EDIT: yes good point, but the law would take into account if a child did have mental health problems before dealing with the parents
2007-09-03 19:41:23 · update #1
Parents do have some responsibility to control the kids - so why not.
2007-09-03 19:38:44 · answer #1 · answered by Scozbo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some kids are sociopaths and whatever the parents do nothing will stop that.
The recent suggestion to raise the age of criminal responsibility is just stupid and should be scrapped without a second thought. If the kids are thugs and criminals they should be treated as such, it is no defence to say he's just a kid - they know what they are doing, if the kids at 10 years old don't know right from wrong then that is a matter of bad parenting and lack of discipline at schools.
yes the parents should be made to act as guarantor if the kid is given a fine or whatever but the child should still be held responsible and given community service or whatever as well.
2007-09-04 03:11:10 · answer #2 · answered by Debi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're the parent. If your minor child breaks the law and is fined, yes you, as the parent, should pay the fine and make your kid pay you back. Teach your children some responsibility for their action, and what the consequences are if they get in trouble. That's your job as the parent. DO IT!
2007-09-04 02:41:39 · answer #3 · answered by stef_leppard 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bonjour madam
Yes but sometimes the parents have nocontrol, and teh children have the worng friends, and in this democratic society we are powerless and the children have picke dup on this.
So best thing is to educate, which affacuse the goverment does not want, then they cant maniuplate the general public, espcially the youth when they come to voting etc.
aurevoir
2007-09-04 05:14:57 · answer #4 · answered by jam 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
child reform homes are not of much use still we go on sending children there.
Only parents should not be held responsible. but whole congregation, society needs to be collectively responsible and come out openly in support of children who need correction care and love. Law is for punishing , which results into bruised ego and selfesteem. We need such mechanism where children will also be corrected and parents will have loving attitude to them.
2007-09-04 03:31:47 · answer #5 · answered by krishprud@yahoo.co.in_KISHORLAL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the parents should be the ones teaching them right from wrong.
2007-09-04 02:59:29 · answer #6 · answered by ChocLover 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tough one: some parents are just lazy & stupid but there again there will be those who work their butts off & their kids are still a nightmare !
2007-09-04 02:42:47 · answer #7 · answered by Well, said Alberto 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, sometimes parents to the best they can and they keep telling the kid it's wrong, but the kid just don't listen to the parents
2007-09-04 02:41:07 · answer #8 · answered by jennyforrich 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if the kid is a psychopath, that's a genetic mistake. nothing the parent can do to change it. wouldn't it be nice if parents had full control over their kids? then car insurance wouldn't be so damn high.
2007-09-04 02:38:21 · answer #9 · answered by joezen777 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
parents have responsibility to make sure their kids dont do stuff they shouldnn't but they can't wath their kid 24 hours a day seven days a week
2007-09-04 02:55:25 · answer #10 · answered by looby loo 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋