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Parental Culpability?
« Thread Started on Oct 9, 2006, 10:29pm »

With some crimes, (particularly Absolute Liability offenses) if the perpetrator is under the legal age of culpability, the parents of the youth are charged for the offense.

Should parents be held legally responsible for the acts of their children?

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Re: Parental Culpability?
« Reply #1 on Oct 10, 2006, 3:02pm »

I think that if the children are old enough to be responsible for their own reactions and if the parents can prove that they are good parents and take the right precautions, then the children should be punished for their actions, obviously not too young children though.

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Re: Parental Culpability?
« Reply #2 on Oct 12, 2006, 10:41pm »

I suppose it would seem understandable that parents should be held responsible for their children's actions if the child is not of age at least until the child becomes of age. The problem that I have with this statement is the question of whether a child is mentally stable or not? What if the individual has a mental health problem and is unaware of his or her actions which result in crime or harm to others? Are the parents still to be held responsible? Or is there a legal clause to excuse the parents from liability? this is a moral concern, isn't it? Who is responsible if the child is mentally ill, should the taxpayer pay or be made to suffer the consequences of the child's actions by placing him or her in an institution? or is it best to keep the child at home wth parents and then integrate him or her in a safe environment to continue to become a part of society.???

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Re: Parental Culpability?
« Reply #3 on Jan 5, 2007, 1:43am »

Once a child is old enough to make decisions then he should get the punishment. Parents can only guide the child to a good life but the child must follow it himself. As far as if the kid was mentally ill, if he was considered psycho or mentally challenged then more then likely neither the child nor the parents would face prison/jail time. He may be put into an institution but taxpayers do not fund that 100%

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Re: Parental Culpability?
« Reply #4 on Jan 6, 2007, 1:55am »

The only way you can legally blame a parent for a child's actions is if you do it that person's entire life. This creates an impossible cycle wherein no one is responsible for their own actions because great-great-grandaddy had a drinking problem. In the short version. It's bulls**t. You can't blame a parent for a child's mistake. It is completely infeasible for a parent to be the sole influence in a person's life.

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Re: Parental Culpability?
« Reply #5 on Jan 6, 2007, 2:20am »

I agree. But what should happen to a small kid that does something wrong? You put him in jail and he will come out far worse in the end

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Re: Parental Culpability?
« Reply #6 on Jan 6, 2007, 9:55pm »

If he does something he doesn't understand, then jail isn't the place for him anyway. The only way you can put someone in prison is if they understand what they did is wrong.

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Re: Parental Culpability?
« Reply #7 on Jan 27, 2007, 9:43am »

Ther are numerous ways of dealing with children and parents in placing what happens to who.Children who may be of an age wherethey may not understand what they did wrong could be sent to a place where things like that are explained properly(therapy). If it is continuous and parents are of the mind that they are just kids and they can do it they want then send the parents there with them. If they are old enough to understand their actions then repayment should be forthcoming. If it a crime of physcal damage like vandalism put them in a chaingang like structure. Put them in full view of society(humiliation) while doing something productive for that same society (picking up trash,painting over graffiti,etc...). Physical crimes against a person is perhaps alittle harder to deal with and may involve prison time but it should involve time in helping with social programs.I don't care if they are slopping soup for the homeless and changing the bedding at hostels but it is a lot more positive teaching then letting them rot in prison, working out, watching tv, and relaxing. Our penal system is a joke.

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Re: Parental Culpability?
« Reply #8 on Feb 1, 2007, 2:31pm »

Well said mate, well said.

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