The Difficulty: A regulation in Gloucester Township, NJ that holds mother and father accountable for his or her little one’s crimes.
I completely agree with Gloucester Township: Dad and mom needs to be held chargeable for their youngsters’s actions (“Mother & pop shock,” Aug. 13).
Having mentioned that, a warning is required for as much as three offenses — however that’s it.
Sufficient with giving the accountability of child-rearing to lecturers, the police and others in the neighborhood.
Possibly if mother and father are threatened with jail time, they may pay extra consideration and set a superb instance for his or her children.
So far as mother and father who produce other youngsters, for those who’re not prepared in your obligation to arrange your youngsters to be a profit — not a burden — to society, then don’t have them.
Maria Musolino
Staten Island
I’ve been a proponent of this sort of justice for a very long time, albeit in a a lot completely different approach.
The perfect instance I ever heard of was when children had been caught vandalizing a bridge and the decide ordered the mother and father to buy paint and have the youngsters repaint the graffitied space whereas the mother and father needed to sit there and watch.
Everybody going to and from the bridge that day acquired to see what was happening and why.
It was a lesson discovered.
Cheryl Bloecker
Montauk
Depart it to Gloucester Township to actually perceive how the crime downside in its group may be eradicated.
The New York Metropolis Council ought to be capable of go such a regulation.
Possibly then our youngsters will discover ways to behave in public.
Kim Cody
Queens
Does any cheap individual imagine that this enforcement will flip round children who’ve dedicated crimes?
I don’t have a solution concerning this downside, however the township’s regulation is the product of wishful pondering.
Lillian Marsano
Manhattan
I used to be a faculty nurse for 38 years.
My recommendation to oldsters is to set early, agency and repeated expectations for habits, educational efficiency and objectives post-high college.
Don’t wait till the teenage years.
Rosemarie Kaupp
Warrington, Pa.
The Difficulty: Miranda Devine’s column on the Obama administration’s position in creating the Russiagate scandal.
Many elected leaders just lately appear to have forsaken their obligation to supply safety, an orderly society and the safety of particular person rights (“Bam bumblers admitted their Russia hoax,” Miranda Devine, Aug. 14).
Many politicians are as an alternative dedicating their vitality to propaganda.
The fabricated intelligence delivered towards 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 might nicely interact in propagating unflattering data towards adversaries — however at the very least it’s engaged in pursuing a few of its platform guarantees, like immigration, advantage versus DEI and financial initiatives.
Larry Sylvester
Acton, Ontario
Thanks, Miranda Devine.
I hope these political hacks, from Obama on down, must testify below oath.
What they’ve finished to this nation within the final 10 years is complete treason.
In being anti-Trump, they had been harming the American individuals.
Robert Fishman
Somers
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