Parental Accountability for Juvenile Delinquency

Executive Summary

The main focus of the research is on children lose track of the kind of development and the changes that come in children behavior that not only and its relation with how children begin to deviate from their own duties and responsibilities and lose out on their delicate relationship with parents. The research also analyzes many aspects of how parents are accountable for the kind of attempts that have been undertaken by parents during the phase of adolescence and tries to gauge its effect on the kind of stigmatic condition and the reputation that each has intended over the years.

Parental Accountability for Juvenile Delinquency

Statement of the Issue

Should parents be held criminally liable for the crimes of the children?

Affirmative Statement

Parents should be held criminally liable for the crimes of the children.

Background of the Problem

Parents although are only working for the improvement of their children, but at the same time, they must also understand and comprehend the kind of opportunity cost they are missing out when it comes to children and their time being spent with the family.

Viewing the Lost Children of Rockdale County, relationships have now become distant and occupied with one's own responsibility and problems that have been intended over the years. Parents and their work schedule usually clashes with children in the first place. This is then followed by tortuous, irrelevant rules that not only sabotage the lasting hopes of how their children might respond to them (Farrington, 2002).

It is hence the duties and responsibility of the parents to not only cater to the demands of children, but also be available at all times, just the way children are expected. Since the parents have brought the offspring into the world, it is the duty and the responsibility of the parent to suffice and be at the discretion of their children.

Pre-Existing Policies

In order to address the problem, considering its recurrence and its influence prevalent at large, the governments ruling and running the country not only make way for a better outcome in the long-run. While Canada has promoted the Parental Responsibility Act in the year 2000, the United States shows mere traces of the movements that have been intended and described in line with adolescence liberation and movement.

Even the law does permit and entertain all claims and suits that have been filed by children, taking parents into custody with immediate effect; the ...