I think that having a parental responsibility law is not very relevant. I agree with the criminologists, as a child may be affected by his or her surrounding, not only his or her parents. And it may not definitely be bad parenting that cause the child to go bad. As, it may be up to the child whether he wants to listen to his parents or not.
Parents might be responsible in teaching their children, but they might not be able to control their children always. As teenagers would want freedom, they would want to choose the type of friend they are with and all these may affect the child as a bad influence.
I do not support the idea of having a parental responsibility law. Although parents should be responsible for their child, they but if the child commits any crime like manslaughter, murder, rape, arson, and other violent crime or less violent crimes like vandalism, burglary, outrage of modesty, it is really out of the parent's control.
They would obviously not harm their own child by teaching them to commit those crime. If parents were punished on behalf of their children, as it is not their fault, and what if the child felt nothing even when their parents were punished? They might not even bother about that, so what is the point of punishing the parents?
For this 16 year old boy's case, i think he should be counselled to see what was the problem. His step-parents should think through if they were partly the reasons why their child became like that.
In conclusion, i think that there is no need for introducing such a law in Singapore...
-carine =)
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