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Some people believe that children that commit crimes should be punished. Others think the parents should be punished instead Discuss both views and give your own opinion?

#people #children #crimes #parents
When
children
 commit
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a crime
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crime
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crimes
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, many believe that they themselves should be punished,
where
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 there are those who argue that the
parents
 of the
children
 should face legal justice
instead
. In my opinion,
parents
 should not be personally liable
to
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 the wrongdoing of their
children
, since they themselves have not committed a crime, and cannot
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therefore
 be responsible. Some may argue that since
children
 have not fully developed their mental faculties,
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behaviours performed by them must be copied from their
parents
.
Therefore
,
parents
 that teach their kids
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anti-social
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anti social
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 behaviour
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therefore
 shoulder some of the blame for their
child
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children
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 misbehaving. Studies have shown that
children
 growing up in abusive households,
for example
, are more likely to grow up having psychological issues of their own.
Thus
, it might be suggested that since
children
’s cognitive functions are moulded by their
parents
, they should be punished
On the other hand
, to punish the
parents
 of
children
 implies that the child has no free will.
Although
 parenting does play a part in individual action, it must be pointed out that individuals
also
 have a degree of autonomy (
this
 of course by age; a
four year old
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 does not have the same level of cognition as a
seventeen year old
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).
Furthermore
, to convict
parents
 of crimes their
children
 commit would be to indict them for acts they simply have not done - it could
also
 be the case that the child was raised perfectly well, and still decided to become a criminal.
Therefore
, since it cannot be proven that a child’s criminal action is
purely
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 because of their
parents
instead
 of their own volition, their
parents
 should not be punished. Overall, I argue that since even
children
 past a certain age have a degree of autonomy, we should not put a legal punishment on
parents
 of criminal
children
.
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