Break out the tear gas, boys
As a newspaper reporter way back in the 1970s, one or two of the towns I used to cover came up with “parental responsibility laws,” making parents criminally liable for offenses committed by their children. Did that produce some wild politics!
As I recall it, none of these acts made it into the legal code: too much opposition. But that was then, and now is now. That which failed back then is now succeeding.
Gloucester Township has passed a Parental Responsibility Act. No one has yet been arrested and charged for children’s misdeeds. But it’s early days–plenty of time to drum up bitter courtroom battles.
What goes around comes around.
The press for a parental responsibility law picked up momentum last year, in the wake of a… let’s call it a youth riot… that ruined a municipal celebration that this year couldn’t be held. Whether it’ll ever be held again remains to be seen.
Of course these kids are acting poorly. Look at the self loathing they are taught.
Actually, they aren’t taught self-loathing. They’re taught self-esteem — for themselves only, that is, and for their special virtue at loathing the loathsome OTHER people of their class or family or country.
Perhaps more loathing for their nation, the economy that produces the foods they eat and their necessities. There’s a huge disconnect between what these youngsters consume, and their regard for the economic system that they rely upon.
I think you’re both right, you and Unknowable. There IS a lot of self-loathing being taught, especially if you’re white and male and sexually normal. But you can always cover it up by hating people who are LIKE you and pretending that they aren’t.
Our culture is in deep trouble.
What I was getting at witj self loathing is that these kids are being taught to feel guilty about the resources they use, just to sustain life.
Plus they’re personally responsible for anything that ever went wrong in any Third World country. And the entirety of US history.
Yep.
Yeah, but then you’ve got to take on Education, and that will never do.
The current scene of cleaning up crime in DC is charging under 18-year-olds criminals as adults.
Some of them have no parents you could prosecute.
I can understand cutting a kid a break if they act in ignorance, but giving minors carte blanch, even if the crime was deliberate makes no sense to me.