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Juvenile Crime...is it time we start prosecuting parents next to their children?

What ever happened to "parenting" your children?

I am just so furious - maybe frustrated is a better word. My daughter's car was broken into over the weekend and approximately $800 worth of items were stolen. We live on an alley system in a very old town in PA so her car was parked behind the house, and she left it unlocked.

While I realize she shouldn't leave things in her car, nor should she leave it unlocked -- the bottom line is that this is HER stuff and not that of the twits we believe stole the items.

This would not be the first time this particular pathetic little group of teenage hooldums have been caught stealing - they have been overheard telling other kids that they break into cars because people are stupid enough to leave them unlocked...so here's my question - when we catch these little morons should we prosecute their parents as well? Obviously the parents have failed to raise them with any integrity or sense of right and wrong - and this is not the first time.

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  • wizjp
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    AS parents you can only go so far to do the right things and teach what needs to be taught. At some point, children make their own decisions and are responsible for their own mistakes. Effective punishment.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    it extremely is a confusing course to flow down. in the journey that your baby does something you does not anticipate, and you had no awareness of, you does not take to kindly to being held at as quickly as to blame for the movements of that baby, particularly if the baby is over 10, that's the age of criminal responsibilty in England, the age at which infants are meant to no longer unavoidably understand the regulation, yet are envisioned to appreciate what's suitable and what's incorrect, and that criminal movements have outcomes. And as for the sentence the two infants have been given, between the previous solutions highlights the thought issue the clicking and public have with those sentences. they did no longer get a "5 3 hundred and sixty 5 days" sentence. They have been given an indeterminate sentence, that would desire to flow on continually, with an coaching they should not be seen for launch for a minimum of 5 years. they might serve 5 years, or they might serve 25 years. it extremely is the judges way of starting to be up for the reality he's not allowed to condemn a baby to existence.

  • 1 decade ago

    I agree. The parents are twice guilty. Firstly they raised their children to believe stealing from unlocked cars is the 'smart thing' to do. And secondly they passed on their DNA to these little monsters. If the child is like this, odds are the parents are too.

  • 1 decade ago

    Law enforcement have been weakened by the so called Human rights,the world is more and more disordered for a reason?? so any one guilty shall be punished accordingly and firmly, death sentence should be for all first degrees crimes, my friend responsibility is individual not collective.

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