Is it right that the government is proposing fining and even jailing parents for their children's ...?
... behaviour whilst at the same time they have legislated to remove a parent's right to effectively discipline their own children.
They are discussing this on Radio 5 just now and I have to ask because the e-mail I sent to them about it won't get read out and I would like opinions before I go away to sort out *my* Family's problems (*caused* by government policies!).
I agree that it is yet another populist "soundbite" from this governement but it *has* happened -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berks...
If my boys had ever skipped school *I* should have dealt with it and they wouldn't have done it again I can tell you.Nowadays I could not have taken the necessary action in order that *I* ensured their attendance as *I* wished them to (and never mind the school regulations).
5 comments:
Rights should come with responsibilities. These days children have untouchable 'rights' (and know it), and now they want to take away all responsibility for their own behaviour and blame it on the parents.
At the moment children are having to bring themselves up because parents are not allowed to do their job. When parents are able to bring their own children up the way they see fit, only then can they be held responsible if it goes wrong.
That sums up the situation perfectly - and I am sure that is what most decent people think too.
It's right that they hold parents responsible, but wrong that they take away their authority to discipline the kids.
No, it's terrible and stupid. One of these sensationalist stories though which is obviously only a flash in the pan. Think how much more savvy and criminally minded the parents would emerge after a custodial sentence. Ignore the whole thing and get back to your own family. It's daft and won't ever happen, aren't prisons overcrowded anyway?
yes, Where i live all the children as young as 2 are left out in the street to play after midnight sometimes. they do what they like smash cars, throw glass bottles into the road ect, All because their parents cant be bothered to look after them. Everyone else has to put up with the damage they do. They all have gardens to play in. These parents should made to take responsibility for their children they should also be sterilised.
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