Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Should children be legally held accountable for their actions?
Should children starting from age 10 legally be held accountable for their actions? In my opinion I think they should be because in the society that we live in today there are more and more children killing their parents and/or fellow children there age. Just because the child is young does not mean that they should not be head accountable for their actions. If that were the case then children would be able to do any crime and not be punished for it. I feel if you feel like you are "grown" enough to commit the crime then you should suffer the consequences. I know that parents are going to protect their child or children and do anything for them, but isn't masking what they do and not holding them accountable only enabling them and in the future that child could potentially become a danger to society? How do you feel about this? Should children be legally head accountable for their actions when it comes to certain crimes and behaviors? For example, take a child that is 10 or 11 and loves to kill stray cats or dogs in the neighborhood. No one suspects anything of it and the child grows up. As the child grows up he or she is in and out of jail for assaulting his teachers, students, and others. The child now grown up commits murder and kills 5 people. Should the parents have addressed this issue at a young age? If they did would the child be the way he or she is now?
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I think that parents of children like that should probably attempt to root out the underlying issue that's making their child do weird things. If the cause of that kind of behavior was found at a young age, then the child would probably be more likely to live a normal life.
ReplyDeleteChildren should be punished for their actions but not as early as 10 years old. At the age of 10 you are not fully aware of the consequences of your actions, therefore being punished is not likely to solve anything. They should receive counseling in order to make them understand the error in their ways and if they continue the same behavior then they should receive jail time.
ReplyDeleteI am a firm believer in a person being held accountable for their own actions. Even those of a child. When children are young they learn at an early age right from wrong yes and no. And as they get older those lesson are drilled into them. And even the laws of the world. So if a child commits and act of murder or any other vicious acts I truly believe that they should held responsible and punished accordingly.
ReplyDeleteI believe that children need to be accountable for their actions because like you said they grow up and then they become murders.But, you also have to look at the parents, because what they do around the child may influence the child to be positive or negative when it come to society.
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