When good woman wombs bear bad sons

Having a parental responsibility law is important. If parents do not show responsibilty to their children, the children will not be cared by their parents. This will affect their discipline, and what they do. As these children grow up, they are easily influenced by the people around them. The children may find the wrong kind of friends, such as bad influence. Thus, they start to become violent.


I support the idea of such a law. If the parents do not care about the children, who can? They are the ones who hold the responsibility of taking care of the children, that no one else can take the place of.


I feel that these irresponsible parents should be harshly punished. They should be fined for about $1500, and jailed up to 7 months. These parents should be put to counselling. The children's violence may be influenced from their parents. If their parents are drinkers, the parents will easily get into a fight easily, so influencing their children.

I believe that most people would have held the parents responsible for the children’s violent actions. However, we cannot entirely blame the parents.

These children may have leant it from other people, instead of their parents. Some parents who are too busy working may not realise that their children are learning bad. So, these children continue doing what they do, without the parents’ knowledge. When the children do such things, the parents would not have known and thus unable to stop them from doing these actions. So, we cannot entirely blame everything on the parents.

For the case of the 16 year-old boy charged with murder, I think that the parents should be punished but not too harshly. It is not entirely the parents fault; the boy is partly responsible.