Like with islam?
No. Next question.
I also feel for the family, but.
Part of properly raising a daughter is instilling them with caution and "discrimination".
Discrimination is the judgment necessary to tell fast from slow, hot from cold, right from wrong, safe from dangerous, and all the other skills that people must develop to make their way in this world.
Bad things can happen anywhere. Sometimes when you try to protect your children from all the negatives in the world, you set them up for a tragedy.
If you start looking for “root causes”, then what you’re really doing is letting the individual off the hook. As in, don’t blame the thief, blame poverty.
Hmmmm... Black on White murder. How surprising...
My solution:
Part the killer out for his organs, and turn the parents out with just their shirts.
There’s a very good (but also really disturbing and not at all entertaining) book and movie about this idea. We Need to Talk About Kevin, really delves into what parent do when a kid gets broken.
Only if you raise him to be a killer.
That girl was foolish to go to a home with no parent present and not to tell her parent where she was going. Another good article from Yahoo news, thanks for posting it. And I’ll add that the statements made by the mother and attorney at the trial DO open the door for the lawsuit.
If parents could be fully responsible for how their children grow up, siblings would be nearly identical. I have three daughters and they have vastly different personalities.
This father has a valid complaint but not, I think, with the parents of the killer.
Yes.
That’s ridiculous. Many children endure abuse at the hands of their parents and never turn into killers. I mean, some people go crazy because their parents get divorced and feel “rejected”. Take Jeffery Dahmer, for example. Should his parents have been arrested because Dahmer felt “abandoned” and decided to kill people as a result?
Short answer: no.
Long answer: nnnnnnoooooooooooo.
I wouldn’t sue anyone if it were my daughter but I would ensure if I could that the killer did not get very far alive from the prison once he is released.
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No. I feel very sorry for this father, but no.
No.
Look at a rather extreme example. There are good hearted people who take on the task of adopting older children. These children have no homes for a reason, and abuse and no bonding or attachment can make these younger people into psychopaths. How could you hold this brave parent responsible for such a child’s crimes? Yet the adoptive parent is the parent.
What about the child who is raised well but falls into a bad crowd outside the home, possibly because his brain is wired to “seek more excitement” than others? What about the child who is raised well, but is passive, usually female, and can be brought under sway by “peers”? The Manson girls, for example. I think one was from a normal middle class home.
What about a poor single parent family where the parent is always at work?
Nope, we can’t blame the parents unless they were truly and provably neglectful. Neglectful only about criminal activity or provable planning for it. Older children need privacy, so neglect would mean things really out in the open.