Like Father Like Son

Posted by Ben @ January 26th, 2010 9:18 pm. Filed under: Hanging's Too Good For 'Em!,Unenforceable Laws,Unreasonable Demands,Unworkable Ideas,Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children? — Tags: Mr. Graham Lerant —

change the law to hold parents criminally responsible for the actions of their children unless they can show the court, on the balance of probability, that they brought their children up in a caring and responsible environment.

by Mr. Graham Lerant

In the case of very serious crime by children under the age of eighteen, the Crown should have the power to test if the parents should be held criminally responsible for the actions of their children. The test should be on the balance of probability that their parenting was significantly to blame, or not, for the behaviour of their children. The test should be conducted in a high court with a judge and jury. If the test finds that they were significantly to blame they should face the legal consequences for the actions of their children as anyone else convicted of the same crime.

Graham neglects to mention what that test would entail, largely because no such test exists. Irrespective of upbringing, a child is still a person and should be held responsible for their actions, you fucking dunderninny.

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