In your blog, respond to these questions, and share any other thoughts you have with regard to the article. As with making good arguments, please give evidence and support your position with logical thinking and and proper justification.
- What are your thoughts on having a parental responsibility law?
- If you support such a law, how can the law be enforced? What are the suggested punishments (counselling, jail, fines, pay for damages, community work, etc.)? What kinds of violations or offences require which type or level of penalties and why? Will such laws help to reduce juvenile deliquency?
- If not, what should we do with juveniles who commit criminal offences like manslaughter, murder, rape, arson, and other violent crimes? What about less violent crimes like vandalism, burglary, outrage of modesty, etc. How do we hold the parents accountable for their children's crimes? If the parents are not accountable, then what are the parental roles and responsibility with regard to raising children? How can society reduce juvenile delinquency then?
- In the case of the 16 year old boy who was charged with murder, what do you think the law should do to him? To his (step)parents?
6 comments:
Boon Teck :
1. I feel that parenting laws should not be affected by the law when it was the children who are at fault first.
2. I do not support such a law and i feel that juvenilles should be treated as adult also when they have committed a serious offence. In less serious offences, i think that they can be placed in a lock up for several days. Since the parents are not accountable for their children acts, i feel that they should be able to educate their children at home, especially when their children are still young. The society can also help to hang banners and broadcast messages to reduce the juvenille deliquency in them.
3. For the 16 year old boy, i feel that he should be sentenced to a life term imprisonment and sent for counselling sessions regularly.
His (step)parents should also be taught how to deal with him when he comes out of jails.
i think that everybody must be responsible for their own wrong doings. nonetheless, the parents should not take the blame for their children.
so i do not support such a law. for juveniles who commit criminal offences like manslaughter, murder, rape, arson, and other violent crimes, i think they should be in jail until they reach 18 years old and get caned. during these years, they can study in jail and if their performance is good, they may be spared from caning.
of course, we would blame the parents for not teaching the children the correct moral value, but we should not take them to face the law. instead we should do counselling together with the children, so both would benefit.
the school and the government should look into the children's progress in the school and if they are performing badly, counselling should be done.
for the 16-year-old youth, i think he really needs to go for counselling, as well as going to boy's home. murdering is a serious crime. either would the child be dumbstruck about what he has done, or be crazy and going around killing people. that is why we should do both so as to maintain the safety of our people.
for his (step) parents, they should be in jail. for this case, the parent may be instigating the child to commit murder, that is why the parents is responsible, and should be jailed.
zhiheng 3e
1. I think that the parental responsibility law is essential because some parents neglect their children, leaving them to fend for themselves. Also, some do not care for their children at all, and leave them with a small amount money to let them survive for some time. Even though most parents are usually responsible, some are not because they just carry on working and earning money.
2. I think that the parents should be jailed for not taking resposibility for the children, and I think that such a law shouldn't even be passed, if not for these irresponsible parents. Counselling is also a good method, if the parents are not too irresponsible. Punishments like jailing, counselling, and fines are essential in my opinion. However, the children may not listen to their parents. This way, the juvenile deliquency will not be reduced, but may increase as a result. Thus, parents should go for more lessons/courses to learn how to educate their children and not feel that their own method of teaching is correct. Teens nowadays are very rebellious and should be handled in a better way.
3. Teens who have committed the crimes should be punished accordingly, with the current laws that are enforced.
Parents should be held accountable for the crimes that their children commit, as their own children are their responsibilty. However, this is not always the case as children nowadays tend to not listen to their parents.
The society can reduce juvenile deliquency by teaching the teens about the consequences of committing these crimes.
4. In the case of the 16 year old teen, I think that he should not be given the death sentence even though he has murdered someone. However, he should receive his punishment. This doesn't mean that he can get away scot-free. I think he should be sentenced to jail for 15 years, for he has murdered someone. He is too young to be given death sentence to me.
I think that his parents should be given counselling because they do not really teach their child well. As for the step mother, she should be taking care of the boy even though the child is not borne by her. They should also be fined for not taking the responsibility of taking care of their child.
Done By: Goh LiQuan
3Integrity
I do not support this parent responsibility law as I think that parents cannot be blamed fully for their child's bad behaviour or misdeeds.
As quoted from the article, "Criminologists think that... "Bad" parenting is clearly not the only cause." This shows that there are other factors in which the child can be led astray.
A parent cannot be blamed because if the child is reluctant to reveal anything about his/her activities, the parent would have difficulties in controlling the child.
A teenager should be old and sensible enough to account for his/her own wrongdoings. He/she should be able to differentiate between right and wrong.
Therefore, if a child has committed a crime, he/she should be punished according to the law. The punishment should not be meted out by the parent.
However, to prevent their child from committing crimes in future, the parent need to discipline and educate the child from a young age. With proper upbringing, the child would be able to stay on the right side.
Society can also do a part by organising events aimed at youths to educate them and be engaged in healthy activites. This way, they can also face positive peer pressure through motivation.
In the case of the 16-year-old boy, he should be punished accordingly to the law, with his parents receiving help to better control their child and support him emotionally.
A counsellor could also follow up with his case and educate the parents on how to bring up their chlidren properly, and have better control over them.
-Fatin(:
i feel that in cases when children commit violent crimes, it may be because their parents abused them physically, memtally or emotionally. this children may also have been neglected by their parents, thus leading to the child going astray. But i feel that children nowadays are more easily influenced by their friends, especially if they had made friend with the wrong company of friends. Some children feel pressurized or inferior when they cannot meet the standards of their peers and resort to anything to show that they they fit in.
in my opinion, i feel that parents are not responsible for what the child does as long as the parents have already done their utmost best to care for the child. Teenagers nowadays tend to get irritated with their parents' concern and discipline. so called "maggings". many a times, teenagers reject their parents, kicking them out of their lives completely. so the parents have no idea what the child does outside, and what activities he os she engages in. in any case, the parent sshould not be held responsible for their child's actions as the teenagers are old enough to think sensibly.
I feel that parental responsibility is definitely important as that will determine who you are in terms of your moral values.
However, the parents of law-breakers should not be fined or jailed as one should be responsible for his own actions and should not let others bear the consequences of his actions.
Obenza
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