Share Your Thoughts: Are parents responsible?

In recent news, our youth have been violently attacked or are violently attacking one another. How much of the responsibility belongs to the parent.  It is the responsibility of the parent to know the whereabouts of their children. If parents were held accountable for the heinous actions of their children, do you think different behaviors would be exibited in parenting?

 

 

 

Share you thoughts:

What do you think, should parents be held accountable or share the consequences for the actions of their under aged children?

Comments

[Adelana Monique Etienne]

The parent has the responsibility to lay down a moral foundation for their children. We must serve as a healthy example to our children, to show them what love, responsibility, and respect looks like. We must teach our children to be God-centered as opposed to self-centered. We must teach them that final authority rests in God, not man; that they should fear God, not man; that they should please God, not man.

And that's just step one. We must then teach them discernment. When they hear or see something negative on tv, on the radio, or on the streets...we must use this as a teachable moment. Explain to them what was wrong and why. Allow them to ask us questions, but more importantly we must answer them truthfully.

Now, when (not if, but when) our children stray and do something that can cause harm to themselves or others, we must hold them accountable (Look up Restorative Justice).

Last but not least, when our children make mistakes..no matter how drastic...we must forgive them and continue to love them, which takes me back to Step one above, "We must serve as a healthy example to our children, to show them what love, responsibility, and respect looks like."

Peace,

[Eve Johnson]

I think that parents are partly responsible. However I do not think they should be held accountable for their child's action. A child especially a teenager tends to lean more towards peer pressure and trying to fit in with the crowd. So that certainly can play a part in their decisions. However a child who has been raised with morals and integrity and to respect others will more often then not make the right decision when the opportunity presents itself.