Gloucester Township’s parental accountability law: – Latest News
The Issue: A law in Gloucester Township, NJ that holds dad and mom accountable for his or her little one’s crimes.
I completely agree with Gloucester Township: Parents must be held liable for their youngsters’s actions (“Mom & pop shock,” Aug. 13).
Having mentioned that, a warning is needed for up to 3 offenses — however that’s it.
Enough with giving the duty of child-rearing to academics, the police and others in the neighborhood.
Maybe if dad and mom are threatened with jail time, they’ll pay more consideration and set a good instance for his or her youngsters.
As far as dad and mom who produce other youngsters, in the event you’re not prepared in your obligation to arrange your youngsters to be a benefit — not a burden — to society, then don’t have them.
Maria Musolino
Staten Island
I’ve been a proponent of this type of justice for a long time, albeit in a a lot completely different method.
The best instance I ever heard of was when youngsters had been caught vandalizing a bridge and the choose ordered the dad and mom to buy paint and have the youngsters repaint the graffitied space whereas the dad and mom needed to sit there and watch.
Everyone going to and from the bridge that day obtained to see what was occurring and why.
It was a lesson discovered.
Cheryl Bloecker
Montauk
Leave it to Gloucester Township to essentially perceive how the crime drawback in its group will be eradicated.
The New York City Council ought to be capable of move such a law.
Maybe then our youngsters will be taught how to behave in public.
Kim Cody
Queens
Does any affordable particular person consider that this enforcement will flip round youngsters who’ve dedicated crimes?
I don’t have an reply relating to this drawback, however the township’s law is the product of wishful considering.
Lillian Marsano
Manhattan
I used to be a faculty nurse for 38 years.
My advice to folks is to set early, firm and repeated expectations for habits, educational efficiency and targets post-high faculty.
Don’t wait till the teenage years.
Rosemarie Kaupp
Warrington, Pa.
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The Issue: Miranda Devine’s column on the Obama administration’s function in creating the Russiagate scandal.
Many elected leaders just lately appear to have forsaken their obligation to supply security, an orderly society and the safety of particular person rights (“Bam bumblers admitted their Russia hoax,” Miranda Devine, Aug. 14).
Many politicians are as a substitute dedicating their power to propaganda.
The fabricated intelligence delivered in opposition to President Trump by Former President Barack Obama is nearly as egregious as that of the Nazis or Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation.
The Trump administration could nicely interact in propagating unflattering data in opposition to adversaries — however at the least it’s engaged in pursuing some of its platform guarantees, like immigration, advantage versus DEI and financial initiatives.
Larry Sylvester
Acton, Ontario
Thank you, Miranda Devine.
I hope these political hacks, from Obama on down, need to testify below oath.
What they’ve accomplished to this nation within the final 10 years is whole treason.
In being anti-Trump, they had been harming the American people.
Robert Fishman
Somers
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