Should parents be Tried in Court when their child has committed an offence?

@HootyTheNightOwl You are correct of course. Joey should be held accountable and C@$tr@ted. A penalty for him, an example to others and prevention from him passing on those genes or attitudes..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman Seriously, though... school truancy is a problem that parents are fined and sent to jail for - yet, no one considers that not all children are missing days of school so that they can swan off to Spain on holiday for a long weekend. Yeah, getting to hospital in the city for an appointment outside of school time is a problem - and the departments weren't open on weekends. Do parents need to be thrown in jail for seeing that their children are as healthy as they can be???

What about the parents of that "misbehaving child" who are at their wits end, doing their very best - but their child has a mental illness that won't be diagnosed or treated until they reach adulthood because children can't be diagnosed with mental illness even though they will benefit from the treatment. Let's castrate those parents!!!

@HootyTheNightOwl I hear you and accept the problem isnt simple and needs other systems to be fixed. The flipside is that Americans are sold simple catch phrase quick fixes, (whether they work or not) and this is just like the homelessness issue, the poverty issue or the drug issue. Changing things at the edges just isnt going to touch the problem, particularly sisnce there is not profit in it. So some "discountinuous change" (revolutionary idea) is where to look..😷