The Subject: A regulation in Gloucester Township, NJ that holds mother and father accountable for his or her little one’s crimes.
I completely agree with Gloucester Township: Dad and mom needs to be held chargeable for their youngsters’s actions (“Mother & pop shock,” Aug. 13).
Having stated that, a warning is required for as much as three offenses — however that’s it.
Sufficient with giving the accountability of child-rearing to academics, the police and others in the neighborhood.
Possibly if mother and father are threatened with jail time, they’ll pay extra consideration and set instance for his or her youngsters.
So far as mother and father who produce other youngsters, in case you’re not prepared in your obligation to organize your youngsters to be a profit — not a burden — to society, then don’t have them.
Maria Musolino
Staten Island
I’ve been a proponent of this type of justice for a very long time, albeit in a a lot totally different method.
The most effective instance I ever heard of was when youngsters had been caught vandalizing a bridge and the choose ordered the mother and father to buy paint and have the youngsters repaint the graffitied space whereas the mother and father needed to sit there and watch.
Everybody going to and from the bridge that day obtained to see what was happening and why.
It was a lesson realized.
Cheryl Bloecker
Montauk
Go away it to Gloucester Township to actually perceive how the crime drawback in its neighborhood may be eradicated.
The New York Metropolis Council ought to be capable to go such a regulation.
Possibly then our youngsters will discover ways to behave in public.
Kim Cody
Queens
Does any cheap particular person imagine that this enforcement will flip round youngsters who’ve dedicated crimes?
I don’t have a solution relating to this drawback, however the township’s regulation is the product of wishful considering.
Lillian Marsano
Manhattan
I used to be a college nurse for 38 years.
My recommendation to oldsters is to set early, agency and repeated expectations for conduct, educational efficiency and objectives post-high faculty.
Don’t wait till the teenage years.
Rosemarie Kaupp
Warrington, Pa.
The Subject: Miranda Devine’s column on the Obama administration’s function in creating the Russiagate scandal.
Many elected leaders not too long ago appear to have forsaken their responsibility to supply safety, an orderly society and the safety of particular person rights (“Bam bumblers admitted their Russia hoax,” Miranda Devine, Aug. 14).
Many politicians are as a substitute dedicating their power to propaganda.
The fabricated intelligence delivered towards President Trump by Former President Barack Obama is sort of as egregious as that of the Nazis or Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation.
The Trump administration could nicely interact in propagating unflattering info towards adversaries — however a minimum of it’s engaged in pursuing a few of its platform guarantees, like immigration, advantage versus DEI and financial initiatives.
Larry Sylvester
Acton, Ontario
Thanks, Miranda Devine.
I hope these political hacks, from Obama on down, must testify underneath oath.
What they’ve achieved to this nation within the final 10 years is complete treason.
In being anti-Trump, they had been harming the American folks.
Robert Fishman
Somers
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