This is a great idea and should be expanded throughout Macomb County and Wayne County. The ordinance gives parents several opportunities to address their children's behavior.
There are some un-attended issues relative to enforcement, though, and these issues should be thoroughly explored so that parents of children who are out of control despite their parents' demonstrated efforts to rein them in will not be unduly sanctioned.
We all know of parents who give parenting their best shot, just to have their children rebel against all authority.
Is it fair to sanction those genuinely good parents?
What do you think?
I think any effort to hold people to a higher standard of responsibility is a "good" thing.
ReplyDeleteGreg your question "Is it fair to sanction those genuinely good parents?, is disingenuous, and you know it. Many, if not most, of these parents of habitual troublemakers, are guilty of neglect and lack of concern for their children. Many of these are "single parents".That is a big part of the problem, where are the fathers ? Societal standards have been declining for decades, due in large part, to the breakdown of the traditional "2-parent family". It's time to start holding these parents of thuggish, truant juveniles accountable.