...on a parent concerning crimes committed by their children. Most state laws impose civil liability for acts done maliciously or acts done knowingly and intentionally. Parents are blessed with the opportunity to teach their children how to behave and act civil but many choose to be lazy and not take it. Are these the parents who should be held accountable? How do you differentiate the parents who teach their kids and the ones who don’t? That’s the problem with the whole situation. You can’t tell the difference because people lie, whether it is the kids who know better and chooses...
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...enacted that make parents legally responsible if their children do not pursue their education and instead, turn to criminal activity. These laws seek to punish parents for their children’s negative behavior. In my opinion, parents should not be held any more responsible for the crimes of their children. It simply makes no sense to punish one for the crimes of the other. By the age of 14 a child should know right from wrong and should be responsible for their action. Body 1: Children choose if they want to obey their parents. A: A parent can do everything right such as give the child plenty of attention, set strict guidelines and the children might just end up rebelling and turning to a life of crime. B: There is no one formula for raising one's children which will guarantee that the child will grow up to be a good person. Body 2: The child’s environment can have a big effect on their behavior. A: Other family members, teachers, friends, neighbors play a large role in the formation of ideas and thoughts in children minds. B: Celebrities like Lil Wayne and 50 cent also play a big role because this is the music children listen to. Body 3 / Counter Argument: Children are less likely to engage in acts of delinquency if they feel that their parents are likely to be held legally responsible for their actions. A: Children prone to engage in acts of serious juvenile delinquency are rarely interested in the feelings of or effects on parents. B: If a child...
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...Should parents be punished for their children’s crimes? There are different points of view as to whether parents should be held responsible for their children’s offence. First of all, parents should be punished for the wrongdoing of their children as research has shown that family is the key influence for an adolescence to commit a crime during nurturing and parenting process (Farrington, 1996). For instance, children having an experience of being neglected by their parents, conflicts between parents or lack of having good relationship among one another affect a child’s behaviour problems. Hence, parents are to blame for their child’s misbehaviour since they are their child’s first teacher as well as having an obligation towards their child. In addition, the reason for parents to be punished for the same reason they brought their children into the society. The cause of an increasing juvenile offense is due to parents having thoughts that it is beyond their responsibilities if their child takes part in an activity. To demonstrate, if parents keep an eye on their children all the time with strict disciplines, children will not be that exposed to other influences such as television and other influences. As a result, children who is controlled and handled will not be easily influenced. On the other hand, parents should not be punished for the crime of their children since parents are not the only person held responsible for the child’s behaviour. By way of illustration, teachers...
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... 2013 Should parents be held responsible for their minor children’s criminal behavior? In this paper, Learning Team C will be discussing "Should parents be held responsible for their minor children's criminal behavior?" Parents should not be held any more accountable for the crimes of their children than children should be held responsible for the crimes of their parents. It does not make any sense to discipline one for the misconducts of the other. Nurturing is not a strict skill. Youngsters are not made of robots. Therefore, there is no particular method or outline for raising one’s children, who will promise that the child will develop up to be an accomplished resident that is a benefit to the public. For one artless purpose people who also include children have a free will. Children are less likely to participate in criminal crimes. If they have a productive parent at home taking care of him or her. What children need at home is love, affection, comfort, and positive reenactment. Parents can do any and everything correctly but if the child is rebellion it is nothing the parents can do. Parents can seek outside help to help for their rebellious child. Most children act out because of the way they were raise up, or the people they associate with. Most children who associate him or her with rebellious children tend to act out as his or her surroundings do. Children not held accountable for their actions will never learn the consequences for their actions and as long...
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...Should parents be responsible for their children’s actions? Sins of Their Children: Parental Responsibility of Juvenile Delinquency The rise in crimes committed by minors has many asking the question should parents be held responsible for their children’s actions. Parents are a direct influence on their children and it is their job to teach the child right from wrong. Also, when a parent teaches a child something that is what the child is going to do when they are put into the outside world. Children learn from seeing and hearing things that their parents do and say and parents should teach their children to stop making excuses and start taking the blame for their actions. Parents are their children’s role models, “leaders”; therefore that makes them morally and legally responsible for what they do. Families, especially, parents have a direct influence on a child’s life, and play a fundamental role in forming the values of children. “The first social relationship a child encounters is with their family. This is where children have their first experiences of being treated as persons. The care and attention children receive during their early years of life affect the way they grow up and how they handle the different issues that they may come upon. This could help or discourage the way that children establish ties with people outside the family. When a child grows up in a family environment that enables their needs to be met, children usually turn out well socially and psychologically”...
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...Parental Liability Many things in life are viewed by the actions people take in their normal everyday activities. The actions we take reflect the personality the individual has been raised up to be. When a person steels a car and is under aged should their parents be held accountable for the actions their child has committed? There are many answers to this question have been expressed throughout the World Wide Web, articles and book in plenty different ways. Most of the answers express come from the same mentality that the parental accountability should only be imposed to a certain age of a child. In my belief, parents should be held responsible for what their child does up to the point of the second year of high school due to the reason of self-control, basically 16 years of age. The child could be held responsible at that point because the education levels have become so advance to the point where they learn in middle school and in high school classes deductive reasoning – right from wrong. Their social skills are also more developed. There are other factors that are related other than age such as the parental liability child’s act and the characteristics of the child after their parents have showed them the way to make the right decision. Almost every state has some sort of parental responsibility law which holds parents or legal guardians responsible for property damage, personal injury, theft, shoplifting, and/or vandalism resulting from intentional or willful acts of...
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...Should parents be held responsible if their children breaks the law? Should children be punished for what they have done? I do not think parents should be held responsible because if the parent did not contribute to it then why should they be responsible because what their child have done. I think it should just be on the child. Depending on certain emotional, environment and aging levels. Every parent and child are different because they are different people. (England) No matter how the parent raised the child to know right from wrong, the child will still use his/her own brain and do what they want to do. The Parental Responsibility Law is made to stop some of violence and problems with younger children. Which, I do not think at all will stop them. It will have to take a community or more than just the community to stop the violence and trouble with the younger generation. But it all starts with us, the people. What are Parental Responsibilities? Parental Responsibilities is a set of rights and privileges that the U.S. Supreme Court has held parents to have a fundamental right to rear their children without undue interference by the government. But, also the court upheld the power of states to force parents to ensure that their children attend school. So, parenting is by no means an unfettered right and, as with many rights, it carries significant legal responsibilities. (Marinaccio) Usually, parental responsibilities include both "parenting time" and "decision-making responsibilities...
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...Parents should be punished when their child breaks the law. Do you agree? yes .. for example when a young person drinks to excessive and goes to the hospital .. the parents should pay. make a list of possible problems with children ... consider an age range, ... parental guidance and the limits ... and the consequences Abstract A “get tough” on juvenile crime perspective seems to dominate public opinion as school shooting incidents continue to occur across the nation and the media reports young children committing violent crimes. After virtually every incident, questions emerge about the juvenile's parents and what role they played (or should have played) in their child's life. Parental responsibility laws, varying greatly within and among the states, have appeared as one answer to these questions. Although these laws would seem to garner great public support under the new punitive attitude toward juveniles, no recent empirical studies have been conducted to determine if the public believes that parents should be held responsible and punished for their children's crimes. This dissertation organizes the different forms of parental responsibility laws into three separate categories. The first category is the civil liability imposed on parents when their children damage someone's property or inflict personal injury. The second category is the “contributing to the delinquency of a minor” statutes that apply to parents or other adults who encourage a juvenile in some way to break...
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...Both parents should assume equal responsibility in raising a child. “Single-parent families are families with children under the age of 18 headed by a parent who is widowed or divorced and not remarried, or by a parent who has never married. (answers.com/single parent families). Both parents should be held responsible in raising and caring for their child. Each year there are 4,130,665 children born in the United States. (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/births.html) Of these children, one in four will be products of single parent homes whether it is being raised by the mother or the father. According to the U.S. Census Bureau as of November, 2009, there are approximately 13.7 million single parents in the United States, and those parents are responsible for raising 21.8 million children. That was years ago so the numbers have increased since then. These results do show however that these people that have found themselves as single parents did start out in committed relationships and had no intentions of raising their child or children alone. (Single Parent Statistics By Jennifer Wolf). The position that I take regarding this topic is that both parents should be held responsible for taking care of their child. Once paternity has been established then it is the lifelong job of each parent to provide for their child not only financially but as a support of some sort. The parent’s actions should be in the best interest of the child or children whether they decide...
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...“Single-parent families are families with children under the age of 18 headed by a parent who is widowed or divorced and not remarried, or by a parent who has never married. (answers.com/single parent families). Both parents should be held responsible in raising and caring for their child. Each year there are 4,130,665 children born in the United States. (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/births.html) Of these children, one in four will be products of single parent homes whether it is being raised by the mother or the father. According to the U.S. Census Bureau as of November, 2009, there are approximately 13.7 million single parents in the United States, and those parents are responsible for raising 21.8 million children. That was years ago so the numbers have increased since then. These results do show however that these people that have found themselves as single parents did start out in committed relationships and had no intentions of raising their child or children alone. (Single Parent Statistics By Jennifer Wolf). The position that I take regarding this topic is that both parents should be held responsible for taking care of their child. Once paternity has been established then it is the lifelong job of each parent to provide for their child not only financially but as a support of some sort. The parent’s actions should be in the best interest of the child or children whether they decide to be together or raise the child separately. There are different views...
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...that influence a child’s development. Renamed ‘bioecological systems theory’, emphasis is that the biological changes in a child are the primary sources of any development while the external factors are huge contributors ‘will steer the development’, (Addison, J.T, 1992). It has been held that the body supports and directs all body actions and operations influenced by the outward interaction with the environment. The microsystem encompasses the relationships and interactions a child has with her immediate surroundings (Berk, 2000). Structures in the microsystem include family, school, neighborhood, or childcare environments. At this level, relationships have impact in two directions - both away from the child and toward the child. For example, a child’s parents may affect his beliefs and behavior; however, the child also affects the behavior and beliefs of the parent. Bronfenbrenner calls these bi-directional influences, and he shows how they occur among all levels of environment. The interaction of structures within a layer and interactions of structures between layers is key to this theory. At the microsystem level, bi-directional influences are strongest and have the greatest impact on the child. However, interactions at outer levels can still impact the inner structures. The mesosystem – this layer provides the connection between the structures of the child’s microsystem (Berk, 2000). Examples: the connection between the child’s teacher and his parents, between his church...
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...result from his creation. Typically, the child charges that he has been born into an unwanted or miserable life.2 These suits offer the prospect of financial relief for some disabled or neglected children and have some theoretical advantages over alternative causes of action.3 But they have had 1. In these cases, the disability is not usually caused by events after conception, such as prenatal damage. Rather, the disability, the underlying genetic condition, or the relevant circumstances of conception are essentially linked to the child’s identity or existence. So, he must claim that his life was wrongfully caused, not only his disability. Jeff McMahan argues that some significant prenatal damage, occurring early in pregnancy, may affect the identity of the child. If he is correct, then such cases should be classified with the cases typically associated with wrongful life litigation. Jeff McMahan, Wrongful Life: Paradoxes in the Morality of Causing People to Exist, in RATIONAL COMMITMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: ESSAYS FOR GREGORY KAVKA 208–47 (J. Coleman & C. Morris eds., 1998). 2. Usually these suits are brought on behalf of children and allege that their parents’ doctors were at fault for failing to inform the parents of a likely defect (knowledge of which would have forestalled creation), failing to prescribe effective contraception, or failing to perform an abortion properly. Cf. Lori Andrews, Legal...
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...1 Preston Crown Court (Lusher). The seventeen-day-long trial ended in a unanimous verdict stating Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were guilty of the murder of James Bulger (Sommerlad). Playing no mind to the discrimination in emotions, both boys' eyes widened at the final verdict (Lusher). It was evident that neither one of the boys was aware of the solemnity of the case. This leaves the mind to think about how these young boys could be considered too young to fully comprehend the gravity of their actions. Therefore, deserving of some form of justification is a deeply contentious and complex possibility. Looking into the involvement, justification could be warranted through the circumstances of their upbringing. Mental health plays a significant role in shaping an individual's perception of right and wrong. Blake Morrison stated, "[W]hen you have got two people who are involved in a crime, especially two so young, inevitably there is psychological speculation" (Sommerlad). The absence of positive and nurturing examples can further worsen behavioural problems, as children may lack the guidance and support needed to develop a moral...
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...Complete Sentence Outline I. Introduction A. “Help Me!” This is the plea of many children in America. Children being forced to deal with things that most of us would never imagine in our worst nightmares. Violence has unfortunately become a common occurrence in today’s society. Everywhere we turn, all we see are visions of violence shown as solutions to problems. Parents and other caregivers abusing children that they are supposed to love. B. 1. Child abuse has grown more rapidly over the years. Innocent children bruised and beaten to death for reasons that are unjustifiable. On the news, in the papers, everywhere you hear about newborns and kids being beat to death. 2. There are four primary types of child abuse. a. Physical abuse b. Sexual abuse c. Emotional abuse d. Neglect 3. The ones performing these actions have no logical explanation for their actions, yet they only get a short sentence for their wrongdoings. No matter what their sentence, nothing can compare to their actions. The abuse can never be taken away. C-D. I first became aware of this topic about four years ago when my cousin was abused by her step-father. After seeing the physical and mental tolls of child abuse she faced, I concluded that this is a serious matter and that authorities need to step up and make an attempt to help the issue at hand before it gets worse. Transition: Many people do not consider the emotional and mental tolls that child abuse...
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...person does not disclose openly. This just happens to be the case in regards to Greg and Mary’s accusations. The parents of this overweight and high cholesterol child may not have necessarily been the sole or total result from eating the burgers from the child’s school, but the school failed to inform the parents of the source of which the burgers were being produced. The school also neglected to provide parents with formal knowledge of the potential risks the burgers from Drive-In Don’s and also provide their nutritional values. The child of Mary and Greg could have previously been at risk or major health issues, but that would be a hard argument for the school to present considering the county department’s one year study reporting that children from schools which sell Drive-In Don products have the highest cholesterol, are the most obese, and are the least active. Greg and Mary’s argument could be that the school failed to inform them of the origin of the food that was being served to their child as well as failure to provide them with the total number of fat, calories, and cholesterol of these foods that are being served. It can be argued that high levels of sodium, fat, and calories can cause a growing child health problems and cause them to be more sluggish than children who are their exact age but eating healthier food selections. “Antitrust decisions should be based solely on the criterion of economic efficiency—that is, the maximization of consumer welfare, which may...
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