I think I’m being misunderstood here. In my original post I said that IF anyone was to go to jail, it should be the parents.
That is not to say I think the parents should be locked up. And I certainly was not saying the kids should be incarcerated either.
Just trying to point out that it is the mother and the father who are responsible for the upbringing of their children, and ought to be held accountable for it. That’s the way I see it. Others may be of the opinion that the male and the female are not obligated to care for their offspring.
When the government didn’t step in and treat spanking a child like bull whipping a child you might have had a point.
In today’s legal climate your point fails to connect with reality.