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Originally Posted by urgeok2
where do you start to draw the line with parental supervision/responsibility ?
some asshole kid at 13 running around getting in shit at 1 in the morning is 100% the responsibility of the parent/parents.
at what point do you say - well, nothing the parents can do about it ?
individually ? no - that would be a nightmare in the courts - so they had to pick an age.
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An age is just a number, IMO.
Until and unless the kid is good enough to take on the world, it is parent's responsibility. How do we find it? Well the parents are the best judges themselves of course.
Which brings me to another point which Urge touched on earlier - why would some parents even give a shit? The case in point is an unwanted pregnancy. The guy didn't want it...the woman didn't want it...and yet the kid is born. How can such a kid get any sort of affection or attention from such parents?
Sometimes it makes me wonder, its better to abort than to raise such a kid and not give a shit about him. Such kids are more prone to grow up as rebels and vigilantes...maybe even a Bundy or a Dahmer.
Its a guranteed fact that almost 95% of all rebellious teens come from family backgrounds where they just aren't needed by their folks.
Blame the rich ones for the other 5%.