Stewart 1 JENNIFER STEWART 05/06/2013 WRITING 101 DR. V
Children do the Crime and Parents do the Time
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Put a Stop to it Before it Starts Parental Responsibility Evaluating Juvenile Crime
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Children do the Crime and Parents do the Time
I. Put a Stop to it Before it Starts
A few questions come to mind with this topic, not only for me but for others as well. There are people who say a child will act out with bad behavior as a cry for help. I will agree with that, but I also know that not everyone is perfect. What if the parents have taken all the necessary steps of responsibility, and are involved in their child’s life? Should the punishment be the same for them? Should age be a factor? Courts can charge a child at age twelve as an adult. Are the laws the same for a child with mental illness? Or, is that a whole other bracket of law? These are just some of the questions that not only I, but others have. I believe there are too many what if’s, and it can go both ways it all depends on what scenario is at hand. I say yes, parents are fully responsible to a point. There are others where I believe if the parents truly did all they could, I think they should not be held fully responsible. My brother in-law Kenny, a single father, just recently went through something similar with his son Karl, who was fifteen. This issue had to do with Karl skipping school, which I believe is a big problem. When Kenny started getting phone calls from the school about his son being absent, it was the first time Kenny started to notice that there was a problem. He started driving Karl to school every day, which was Kenny’s way of making sure his son went to school. That lasted for about two weeks or so. Then Karl would just wait until
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his dad drove off to go where he pleased. About a week went by, Kenny received a notice in the mail, along with the phone call from the school stating that if this issue were not resolved, further action...