The new Jersey Parental Accountability law is straight out of 1984. Parents will be held criminally liable for crimes committed by their children. As an educator, I have seen good parents with bad children and the reverse. There is no way to make this law democratic.
OANN Host: “For people, for the parents out there who do seem to support this, this idea here, I want you to speak to them for just a moment. Because some of them may be thinking their you know, fellow parents out there just don’t crack down hard enough on misbehaving kids, and maybe this is a way to really get through to them. So for parents out there who are in support of this idea, what would you say, Corey?”
Corey DeAngelis: “I say reach out to them directly with through voluntary means, not through the force of big government overreach. Because it might be that these parents are doing a good job. It might be that the kid is getting in trouble with gang violence in schools. Maybe they’re getting into fights. Maybe there’s drugs that are accessible to them at schools.
“Does that mean we jail administrators and teachers? No, we don’t do that.
“But if there are parents that are obviously doing a bad job, and if they are abusing kids, or they’re engaging in severe neglect, then of course, the government should step in. “But you should punish people for their actions that they have been found guilty of, not for things that they might have done. That is insane, that is straight out of 1984.”
New Jersey “parental accountability” law is something “straight out of ‘1984.’ School choice advocate @CoreyDeAngelis discusses New Jersey law that would hold parents criminally liable for crimes committed by their children with @RileyLewis760 on @TheRealStoryOAN
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New Jersey politicians want to criminalize parenting and make judgments about parents’ effectiveness based on the end result of a nasty or mentally ill child. They are trying to punish parents for thought crimes, not facts. It’s a huge government overreach.
Whenever government gets too involved, they do a terrible job. But I understand the frustration.
Surely, you can see where this could go? The State can’t become the guardian of the parent. Never take rights away from parents and hand them over to the State.
Professor James Dwyer: “The reason parent-child relationships exist is because the State confers legal parenthood.”
Wake up, parents.pic.twitter.com/ZdeztqCxWl
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) January 21, 2022
NJ must be against single mothers since the crime rate for kids in single parent homes is 10x higher than kids brought up with two parents.
It is nonsense for NJ or anybody else to hold parents criminally liable for crimes committed by their children. However, parents should be held responsible to some extent for damages caused by their minor children they have custody of including lawsuits for wrongful death or injuries. Why should the victims have to pay. Maybe parents should have blanket liability insurance for their kids antics. That coverage is available and Bill Clinton cashed in on his policy in the Paula Jones lawsuit against him.
Oh yes, the perfect law for disobedient children, if they get upset enough at you, they can commit a crime and have you put away. Yes, the state is wanting full control of your children
I had the miss fortune of havig Two bad children. They were given God, taught to respect adults, do not steal or envy others, It is that many children now have multiply daddy’s and moma is always looking for a new paramour, not in my case. I have noticed one thing there is a disconnect of children for electronic devices. The family is content to sit in the same room and never have to look one another in the eye.The families head is fused into a Matrix mind set. Placated by personalized pleasure, humans are the things on an electronic decisive, making human contact scratchy and uncomfortable. Rules or consequences don’t exists in their virtual world.
Before the late 1950s, if your child(under 21) was truant, found guilty in court of law, numerous times, he/she could be sent to boys or girls school and raised by the state.
I have taught philosophy, including ethics, for half a century at the university level. Parents possess their parental rights by the very nature of being parents, who have brought their children into the world by a God-given natural process.
A right is the moral power to fulfill an obligation. In this case, the parents who bring their children into this world also bear the obligation to care for, to raise, and protect them.
These rights do not belong to the state and cannot be conveyed or removed by the State. The State can assist parents in fulfilling their parental obligations, but never has the right to replace natural parental authority.
Unless parents actually force their children to commit crimes, the free choice of children who commit crimes bestows responsibility for their acts upon themselves — not on the parents who raise, nurture, and protect them.
While the State may intervene to protect children who are abused by derelict parents, this does not render even such parents criminally responsible for the free choices of their children to engage in criminal activity.
SOMEONE has to be responsible. If not the ‘child’ then YES THE PARENTS.
If not, you are pleading for criminal behavior to increase and worsen. It is not for “things (that others) might have done” .. it is for ACTUALLY COMMITTED CRIMES. It is not “thought police”. It is CRIME POLICE.
Liberals are MORONS.
I wonder if we can hold these “lawmakers” parents responsible for these Orwellian laws? They obviously had a crooked upbringing as well.
SOMEONE has to be responsible. If not the ‘child’ then YES THE PARENTS.
If not, you are pleading for criminal behavior to increase and worsen.
Liberals are MORONS.
The child is responsible for their own actions, unless the parent encouraged the bad action, then both are responsible.
YES, liberals are morons. NO, don’t blame the parents for out-of-control children. I went through that with one of my kids, we turned him over to the county children’s home where he was not disciplined but treated as if he were royalty. That was our huge mistake. Regardless, he went on to spend a lot of time in prisons.
I’m sorry to hear about that, hopefully things are better, or will get better
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