When children do bad things like commit crimes should the parents be held responsible?

Question

Like the Bali 9/Corby cases. How much do you think the parents are to blame for their situations?

Answer 1

yes definitely because the parents are the ones that created this thinking and thoughts in their children's minds and if the parents were good 'teachers' to their children, their children would never do such thing.

Answer 2

Yes absolutely that the parents should be blame for their miserable & pathetic life.

We always say 'charity begins at home' therefore, so does the feeling of love & security from our own parents, teaching us that doing bad would lead us astray. When a child is excellent in school the very first question comes to mind 'who is the parents of this child?' The same way if the child is notoriously bad in school they ask who is the parents? Because the PARENTS play the biggest role in a kids life. Even if we ask every psychologist in the country, the parents should be an outstanding example of their own kids.

Answer 3

That's a really hard subject. Partly I think they should because a parent should know what is going on with their child and it is their responsibility to teach them right from wrong. On the other hand, I know wonderful parents and regardless of how well they brought up their child, they still were in trouble a lot. It's a toss up. But I will say Yes, the parents should be held somewhat accountable.

Answer 4

In Michigan a law was passed several years ago making the parents responsible for their children and, it has been tested and, held up.

Whether young or old, you have to ask, if young, where was/is the supervision? and if older, where was the supervision and who is to blame for that.

We are not animals that cannot think. We are human and can calculate, we can and do learn. We also learn right from wrong. If we continue to do wrong and live with parents and they continue to allow us the wrong path, who's to blame.

My former son-in-laws parents couldn't handle him after 15 years old, he refused to go to school, he started using drugs, he started mistreating his siblings, nothing worked for them. They finally called the court and, turned him in. He was ruled incorrigible and, put in a juvenile detention home and, raised by the courts.

The marraige lasted a few years. He's been in jail 20 of his forty years, off and on.

Answer 5

I think with most situations parents are 50% at fault because, they don't disipline at a young age anymore, Children are given too many rights and parents let their children do as they wish so they don't have to "deal" with bad behavior.
But society has a lot to do with it as well as the media. The news is filled with kids becoming "famous" by means of bad acts, making it popular to those kids who grew up in a bad situation already and putting ideas in their heads.
Kids are not being taught morals, or respect anymore. So they can't put a value to human life.

Answer 6

Robert A. Heinleim wrote a book called "The Starship Troopers" (in the 50's?). Nothing much like the film which was a superficial box-office appeal movie.
In it he suggests just that! He likens the rearing of kids to that of house training a puppy; you don't say "it's just a puppy" "it is too young to know better", "time to teach it when it is older", etc., then, when it reaches 6 months, say "it is now old enough to know better - get rid of it". Similarly with kids, "he is only a child" "he is too young to know better" "I'll teach him when he is older and I have time to bother", etc., then when the kid reaches eighteen "he's now old enough to know better - take him out and shoot him".
Not just parents who should be accountable, the whole of Society has been disempowered from the local copper who could clip you round the ear when he caught you stealing apples, to the neighbour who would tell your parents if you'd been cheeky or she'd seen you riding your bike on the pavement, to the Head teacher who could impose punishments (all of these with parental approval).
Of course children have Civil Liberties, but a healthy Society needs members who have been taught to work for the good of that Society and to adhere to the Society Rules. Like puppies, children need to learn the rules of their family society if they are to have any hope of becoming responsible members of the wider Society with its more complex rules.

Answer 7

depends on the age and what happen. If the child is very young then yes but at some point the child is an adult even before the age of 18. Age is nothing more then a #.

Answer 8

I strongly believe that parents are responsible for the education of their children, also their own behavior at home is an example for them..

Answer 9

somewhat, because if the parents would have been more responsible and took more disiciplinary action when their children were younger....their kids might not have ended up as knuckle heads

Answer 10

they can learn him what he did? & what he should do