If a five –year-old child commits a crime of any kind, should the children’s parents be held responsible and punished? At what age do you think the parents be no longer directly responsible for the child’s behavior.ffice
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I think that parents should be responsible for their children’s commiting crimes especially if the child is only five years old. And I maintain when children have been 16, the parents no longer assume the responsibility of their children’s behaviors.
Quite a lot of reasons are responsible for this social phenomenon, while the first and foremost one due to the parents’ ignorance. It’s undeniable that the home education and the parents’ influence play significant roles in the growth of children. The concept of ‘bringing up the children’ means not only providing a better economic circumstance, but also being a good guide and role-model to their children. If the parents are too busy on their work and have no time to play and teach the children, they’ll be short of education. Therefore they may lack the ability of self-control or have bad friends and even commit a crime .
Additionally, many of the parents treat their children with excessive permission. In fact, they allow the children to do anything they like and satisfy all of their children’s needs. Unfortunately, this permission may result in molding the bad character such as such as arbitrariness and selfish. Indeed, they don’t concern the feel of other person and they may commit a crime for their own benefits.
Nevertheless when the children grow up to 16years old as they are already adults, they have their own feelings and already received adequate , education, therefore they can judge whether their behaviors are legal or not themselves, thus their parents shouldn’t be responsible for their actions.
But the question existing in this situation is what type and to which extent of the punishment should be given to the parents. Although the main reason of children’s committing a crime is parents’ neglect in most situations, I don’t advocate that the government should give the strict punishment to them. I think the government could give some advices and regulate the regular time which parents must spend on the children’s education.