The Issue: A law in Gloucester Township, NJ that holds parents accountable for their child’s crimes.
I absolutely agree with Gloucester Township: Parents should be held responsible for their children’s actions (“Mom & pop shock,” Aug. 13).
Having said that, a warning is needed for up to three offenses — but that’s it.
Enough with giving the responsibility of child-rearing to teachers, the police and others in the community.
Maybe if parents are threatened with jail time, they will pay more attention and set a good example for their kids.
As far as parents who have other children, if you’re not ready for your obligation to prepare your children to be a benefit — not a burden — to society, then don’t have them.
Maria Musolino
Staten Island
I have been a proponent of this kind of justice for a long time, albeit in a much different way.
The best example I ever heard of was when kids were caught vandalizing a bridge and the judge ordered the parents to purchase paint and have the kids repaint the graffitied area while the parents had to sit there and watch.
Everyone going to and from the bridge that day got to see what was going on and why.
It was a lesson learned.
Cheryl Bloecker
Montauk
Leave it to Gloucester Township to really understand how the crime problem in its community can be eliminated.
The New York City Council should be able to pass such a law.
Maybe then our children will learn how to behave in public.
Kim Cody
Queens
Does any reasonable person believe that this enforcement will turn around kids who have committed crimes?
I don’t have an answer regarding this problem, but the township’s law is the product of wishful thinking.
Lillian Marsano
Manhattan
I was a school nurse for 38 years.
My advice to parents is to set early, firm and repeated expectations for behavior, academic performance and goals post-high school.
Don’t wait until the teenage years.
Rosemarie Kaupp
Warrington, Pa.
The Issue: Miranda Devine’s column on the Obama administration’s role in creating the Russiagate scandal.
Many elected leaders recently seem to have forsaken their duty to provide security, an orderly society and the protection of individual rights (“Bam bumblers admitted their Russia hoax,” Miranda Devine, Aug. 14).
Many politicians are instead dedicating their energy to propaganda.
The fabricated intelligence delivered against President Trump by Former President Barack Obama is almost as egregious as that of the Nazis or Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation.
The Trump administration may well engage in propagating unflattering information against adversaries — but at least it is engaged in pursuing some of its platform promises, like immigration, merit versus DEI and economic initiatives.
Larry Sylvester
Acton, Ontario
Thank you, Miranda Devine.
I hope these political hacks, from Obama on down, have to testify under oath.
What they have done to this country in the last 10 years is total treason.
In being anti-Trump, they were harming the American people.
Robert Fishman
Somers
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