If you are promoting children having parents, and the concept of responsibility.
Promoting vandalism would be sneaking into someone’s home secretly not having a serious consequence that the homeowner could give.
The punk boy received an appropriate consequence.
Of course punks who want to be punks whine about appropriate consequences. They find other whiney little punks who will whine with them. The baby daddy culture whines together.
Getting the crap beat out of him by the mother WAS the appropriate consequence. Her taking a baseball bat to his car (which actually turned out to be HIS mother’s car) is VANDALISM. PERIOD.