And the parents (or in many cases sperm donors), should also bear at least some of the responsibility.
I don’t want to go there. I put the LEGAL responsibility solely on the perps. Thing is, good parents can have bad kids and vice versa. I don’t want my government getting into that quagmire. I want it simple. You do it, you are responsible. If you didn’t do it, you are not, unless it can be proven in a court of law that you put the person up to it (e.g. paid the hit man to do it).
Well I do believe in cases where parents are shown to have not been around, that represents a form of negligence..Certainly good parents can have bad kids, but that percentage pales in comparison to children born out of wedlock.