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Parents Should Take Responsibility
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Parents Need to Take Responsibility Should parents be held responsible for the actions of their children??? I think they should. This subject has been debated on for many years now but has become increasingly popular in the last ten to fifteen years. The public has become more and more concerned with juvenile crime and how to reduce it. They have tried tougher laws and punishments for the child offenders and even created special police units to fight youth crime and nothing seems to be helping. The government has tried to avoid holding parents responsible, but it may be the only way youth crime rates will decline. Growing concern about juvenile crime and the state of America's families has prompted states to enact parental responsibility laws. Parental responsibility laws are part of the general push by the political establishment for greater criminal prosecution in the wake of a number of highly publicized violent crimes committed by youth. While all states allow parents to be sued for the various actions of their children, criminal legislation is a relatively new phenomenon. Such measures are separate from traditional civil liability and contributing to delinquency laws. Recent enactments make parents responsible for the delinquent acts of their children by imposing new sanctions and involving them in juvenile court dispositions. More recent measures require parents to attend juvenile court hearings. In civil cases, parents are automatically liable for their children’s damages from intentional acts up to a certain dollar amount which varies anywhere from $250 in Vermont to $25000 in California. In most states, parents are held responsible for their children’s actions until they are 18, but in some states parents are responsible until their child is 21. What we are talking about is parental responsibility. Parental responsibility as defined in the Children act of 1989 is all the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority, which by law a parent of a child has in relation to the child and his property. These responsibilities would include the following: * safeguarding and promoting a child's health, development and welfare * financially supporting the child * providing direction and guidance to the child * maintaining direct and regular contact with the child * acting as a legal representative until the child is 16 if required * ensuring that the child is suitably educated. If all of these responsibilities are taken care of, I feel the child is less likely to get involved in criminal or destructive acts. When a child is left alone or is allowed to come and go as they please, the problems will begin to exist. With out parental liability, I think the parents get away with not being involved in their child’s life. Passing more strict laws would seemingly get more parents involved and concerned about what their child is doing.
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