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Originally Posted by THEDUDEofDestiny  i apologize if i was insulting to your parents. i only meant that in this thread you said they didn't take an active approach in your education and you worked on your own and seem to care about both the education of others and any future children you might raise. i didn't mean to put them down so much as to say the credit for this would appear to rest with you. my language was poorly chosen when i should hae just said you are the one to shake hands with. the flipside of that is this daughter deserves the discredit of her dropping out.
as for the second point, of course i agree with you. it'd be damn hard to find anyone that would. i just don't think it is law enforcements roll to punish parents for the behavior of children. parents who neglect their offspring or don't end them to school when they are young are correctly frowned upon and punished. my only disagreement with you i really that i think the state's right to enforce good parenting only extends so far. |
to an extent, and certainly in this case, it's ridiculous. but how many parents are sitting in the living room with a bottle of vodka while their child is struggling to learn how to read. obviously we shouldn't lock up every parent who's child fails, but if it's proven that the parent IS neglecting their child's education, isn't that the same as neglecting to feed them, which you can be jailed for (child neglect). children aren't all equiped with a sense of personal responsibility, parents should be.