Comments about ‘Legislation aims to make parents more responsible for kids’

One of the reasons kids get into gangs is that their parents DON'T know what they are doing because they don't care enough to know or find out. These kinds of parents SHOULD be fined.

I'm in High School right now and I am sick of students at my school getting drugs from THEIR PARENTS! These parents deserve to lose custody of the little monsters they are creating

Unless parents are on top of their children every minute of the day, this law is rediculous. Parents put a lot of trust in their children to act and behave properly. Peer pressure and schools lack of control over its students perpetuate the behavior of peer pressure on otherwise good children. Parents are not aware of what drugs are popular or available in schools or if a child steals from home. Parents are not always in jurisdictional control of children activities and child behavior in schools. The problem of children getting hold of drugs from parents or other sources are out of the parents hands. Even around small children in a home these accidental drug ingestions will happen, no matter how many laws they write. Parents are humans prone to be human with many outside influences affecting child behavior. When most children take or use drugs they are doing so under the influence of their peers and other students, not the parents. This law only adds another roadblock to good parenting and puts the responsiblity and control of drugs in schools on parents. This law is intended for drug use in schools also, not just home care.