Should parents of recent juvenile felons be publicly exposed?
Objective: Create consequences for poor parenting.
Scenario: Bob and Elsie have three kids. One of them becomes addicted to opiates following a severe sports injury. Despite intervention, they spiral and are eventually arrested and convicted for [pick a felony].
Forget Bob and Elsie. Consider the impact on the other two kids.
Is this only for the "bad" parents? And who determines "badness"?
Wouldn't it be better to put supports in place beforehand, rather than punch down when the bottom is reached?
@Cosmichomicide
Then, wouldn't that be part of the story? The failure of society to assist parents that have done all they can but it wasn't enough.
We just had a 17 y/o shoot a 49rs football player in our downtown.
What is the problem that caused this shooting?
Maybe the child thought it was OK to use a gun to commit the crime?
Should society hold parents accountable?
We currently don't.
We have in cases of mass shootings where the parents were clearly complicit in the supply or training of the weapons used, like the Crumbleys.
My concern is that there are so many things that are felonies in so many states this becomes another way to target non-majority populations and point a finger rather than solution the root cause.
Adam Lanza killed Nancy first. It's not the 80/20 solution it appears.
Deterrence vs Retribution
Would parents act any differently if they were held accountable?
Would society act differently if they saw parents struggle and still fail with dire consequences?
There are terrible parents. We have entire systems devoted to them.
Most parents do their level best. And I say that as a kid whose mom told me to be home before the streetlights came on and had me setting up the ashtrays for bridge club after I let myself in after school.
My brother is a Trumper and we grew up in the bluest of blue families. As in, I have the dress my mom wore to Kennedy's inaugural ball blue family.
There's just no even application of this, satisfying as it seems.