Life involves a process and not an event. The fact remains that whatever a child learns from the tender age plays a significant role in determining the direction of behavior one grows in. During the life of the child, parents cannot be considered as the only stakeholders in their life. Therefore, parents are not entirely held accountable when the children engage in criminal activities. Thus the parents should never be punished because of the crimes committed by their children. Parents raise their children in an environment that consists of various people and some external factors. These different people and other surrounding factors highly contribute to influence the moral actors and characters to the children actions.
For a long time, the society has always maintained a belief that the parents are accountable for the children’s mistakes. This is due to the parent’s social responsibility to educate children and more so the fact that they pay part on behavior, character, and effect acts to the growth of their children. The parents act at fast hand on contributing to the children from when they are born, and more so these children spend a lot of time under family care under their parents care. Considering this factor, hence the society believes that parents always contribute to their growing children behavior, character, and morals (Hoffman,.45). Therefore, society thinks that parents are acting as the primary influencers on the children’s life. From the early days, parents are supposed to be the guardian to their children; this takes excellent determination on life a child as the society puts it. But the environment for these children acts as assistance to these parents on bringing up their children.
Nevertheless, there exists another school of thought whereby the parents ordinarily have the overall controller to the children. Considering this as an aspect, the children believe that it’s their responsibility to please the parents. Hence, making positive behaviors by obeying the instructions and advice that which permit the argument that in case they do not follow and behave well. The parents should be the blame for failing to have control on them responsibly. In many cases, some of the people do believe those children’s behaviors result from the way they are raised therefore concluding that someone to be held accountable for the troubles, mistakes, and crimes caused by the children (Loeber et al. 748). Often due to the reasons mentioned above, a lot of people consider blaming the parents for all the mistakes and misconducts conducted by their children. This belief makes society forget that other influences pertain to developing children and shaping his or her life.
Nevertheless, most of the parents are held accountable, by these they always do whatever they can on raising their children although this should not be the critical event. Even though there several parents who do not act as role models and thus reflecting the unrespectable image to the children, ideally the various parents perform the best they can. Definitely, it in the public domain that some of the children are troublemakers and are incredibly violent due to their parent’s severe abuse. This is recorded when growing as they observe their parents doing irresponsible activities thus making them understand such actions as harmless but are actually interconnected to crime. Though, in spite of such parents, some of the parents make an effort when raising their children and hence consider making strategies to prevent their children from linking crime activities although these children at some point make some significant mistakes. For such cases, the parents should not be the blame since they have made efforts to control their children. In other cases, some parents get to be unaware of the activities carried out by the children even with all efforts trying to spend adequate time with the children. Life is build up with learning that involves scanning of the environment and from then filtering likes and dislikes.
Moreover, the parents' influence on the children life can be said to be a minor factor which ends affect the morality of the children. Considering this, there are other serious contributors such as the country’s law, a particular religion, and even teachers. Ideally, most of the time the children commit the crime but not with their parents' influence but instead some external factors. Since the current world is much driven by technology and other dynamic changes, activities such as movies, games and similar visual based programs being produced in the current market campaign highly on violence and crime scenes. The content in these movies and related programs are mostly programmed on creating violent scenes with the aim of promoting the product which must have a climax that is driven by a struggle that if always solved by violence. Hence remaking superiority to any party who successfully fight to win the game on the film. By these acts, the children tend to copy the actions performed unknowingly that this is not usually the fact of the game or film. Ideally, there are actions behind the scene to promote h product to look like real, but to the children, understanding is very insufficient on such matters (Arthur " Raymond, 245). Therefore ruining the children lives on making them crime based ad motived personals and sounds dangerous upon their life. By such consideration, the blame moves towards the producers of these games and movies since the content is not controlled.
Inappropriately, very minimal restrictions are set to help on preventing exposer of such programs to the children on the outright violence. Definitely, when a child starts practicing what is in these programs from a small age, might end up possessing these behaviors thus making one’s life to be incredibly full of violence activities. For such events, media is the actuals cause of the child’s, and therefore the blamed should not be directed to the parents. When at school or at the playing ground, these children are always seen imitating whatever they watch from the media, and thus the directors f the movies programs would be held accountable (Grolnick). These movies highly contribute since they visually obtained information sticks to the mind of a child more than hearing.
Furthermore, children should face full responsibility for their respective actions irrespective they like it, or they don’t. Ideally, a person should suffer the individual consequences of the wrongdoing hence to learn a lesson. In case the parent is held accountable for such crime form their children, the child would never consider stopping the criminal activity. Therefore it is wise to find the respective person to carry his or her own cross/burden. Since the children are always taught what is wrong or evil from the early age, therefore it is easy to understand that they always know when committing the crime. Any parent should be consequently considered from such offenses from their own children due to the belief that children are aware of what happens when engaging in the crime (Grolnick).
Additionally, parents should be alleged accountable or even be punished due to the crimes committed by their children since it’s upon the children decide to do what their minds guides them whereby the parents are not involved. Most often, before committing a crime, each child got equal power and chance to opt to do if to commit a crime or not. Therefore, no need to consider external factors that contributes to the child decision towards determining any crime. Thus parents are not on any chances to be held as participants on offense that are committed by their children. Those people who are opposing concerning this fact tend to believe that any child should be held accountable for any decision they make until they reach the maturity age. At maturity age, they argue that it is sensible also thoughts are determined by the challenge course of which varies in different countries. At this instant prior the age universally and also determined agreed together for the decision made by children seem to be solely brought to about by respective children. Thus the parents of the children should be the part of the blame or even be punished fundamentally concerning the guilty of being associated.
In conclusion, the so proposed punishment of blame to the parents due to their children crimes committed during that age reoffered to be a criminal liability is therefore so biased. It is methodological for setting the entire blames towards the parents whereby most people within the community likewise plays a uniform role. Since life is a process and not an event, every child mingles around during the growth stages. It’s during this interaction that one gets to fetch a lot of information, moral and related behavior and what collected from social interaction builds the life of the child either positively or negatively. By bearing in mind such factors within the growth process of the children, it can be incredibly wrong to argue that the parents are entirely responsible to what their child become in the term to social relations or another kind of reactions that relate to ethics (Assor et al. 60). The best-considered view towards the belief is supposed to be wholly exterminated as the choice by the child on committing the crime which is due to the decision of the child or even during the consequence time from the influences from the various factors. Life is a task that one should always be responsible on the control one takes upon life whether driving it on right or wrong direction. Since no one have the control over the other person life whether minor or adult. Therefore the entire blames should not be considered or suggested as a burden to the parents (McCullagh " Ciaran). Relatively, the overall community should, thus, be held equally responsible for making part of the growth of a child and as blame to entire society, not the parent. Hence concluding that the Parents should not be held responsible for crimes committed by their children at any circumstance.
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