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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
It's a stupid idea. I agree with Blazey - what's to be gained by punishing the parents who the children are ignoring anyway? The children won't be worried by threats like that and the parents won't have any more influence over them. It's like jailing the parents of children who play truant when you've seen the mothers struggle to get the kid to school and then the kid runs away once the mother's back is turned. How does jailing the parent help?
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Jailing the parent is, in theory a good idea, it ensures that the rest of the ineffective, couldnt give a toss parents see the results of their lack of effort.
Children are not born out of control they are allowed to develp to be that way because some parents are more interested in themselves than their offspring.
However, I personally object to the cost of all this which again will be born by the hardworking parents who do put their children first.
I would rather that parents of drunk or otherwise misbehaving children were made to spend time with them.Compell them to give up their daytime TV and all day drinking to attend special education units together with their children instead of lumping all the responsibility on teachers, police and social workers. they should also be charged for this and if they arnt working let them pay with their cars, 50 inch TV's and laptops, the less of these they have the more they are likely to notice what the little dears are doing.
I also think compulsory attendance at some type of institution would hit another group, the middle class parents who dont have time to see what their children are doing. It would do some of them the world of good to spend time off work with their child/ren even if they have to miss a term time holiday abroad.