The law of the rebellious son was part of the penal code of Israel under the law of Moses. The Bible never applies this mankind as a whole. So if I were you, I wouldn't be worried about it being applied in our enlightened world today where juvenile delinquents terrorize their peers and society as a whole. And if you note the context of the verse, this isn't dealing with a little son who merely balks at eating his vegetables. There is a reference to the son as a drunkard. This appears to be like a hard version of the habitual criminal law that we in the West have. And you have to admit, this law was more effective than ours in eliminating a menace 2 society before he left a trail of mayhem and innocent blood.
The law of the rebellious son was part of the penal code of Israel under the law of Moses. The Bible never applies this mankind as a whole.That may be so, but if the bible indeed is God's word, he thought stoning a son to death at least was (a non-enlightened god?) an appropriate punishment in Israel (relativism?).