Parents can do only so much. With both parents being in the work force, it leaves not much time for raising kids. You can’t generalize. Most teenagers will do whatever they want whether their parents raised them good or not. The peer pressure, availability of drugs, opportunities for sex, all of these are the factors to be considered. When the kid is out to school (at 6 years of age) parents are only part of the big assembly that influence what direction a kid will take, and by no means are the only piece. Blaming parents for the fukups of kids is a dumbass thing to do.
Madhanee - I think it was that this mother was in the house and still something like this happened. I wish there was some kind of law to charge her with besides being inept.
This parent in particular was to blame for this girls death, not particularly for what her child did. There does seem to be a pattern of blaming everything and everyone else for the actions of her kid because everytime he does something it isn't his fault. Like blaming wrestling on TV before, or now, saying mistaken identity when the kids friend who was with him said he did it.
Please dont raise fatwas in cases where the issue is so obvious.
MQ, it is not very obvious, well maybe only in your head.
I agree with you that maturity doesn't only depend on age and that is why I don't agree with strict 18/21 age milestones but the legal people argue that you have to draw a line somewhere. The 12 year old in Africa is different than the 12 year old in NYC than to a 12 year old in Pakistan. Their life experiences make them at a different level of maturity.
I am only arguing after witnessing children in the juvenile correctional facility that most of them are no juvenile, nor the correctional facility making them any better, or the idea that somehow halfing their sentence will somehow make them a better person.
