Sandy wrote:Corazon de Leon wrote:Of course you're right, but I'd prefer not to court controversy in the thread by stating which crimes I feel shouldn't be illegal. In general, if my kids did something that was morally/ethically wrong and against the law, they'd be on their own.
Surely it's your job as the parent to guide them and re-educate them if this was the case? Not just pretend like you had no part in them getting to this point and ignoring the consequences of not raising them into the person you think they should be.
In this hypothetical situation of course.
That doesn't really have any bearing to any of my point about having to face the consequences of doing something wrong, and you can only do so much as a parent. Obviously it's a complicated question with a lot of variables as well, but I only really have time to give a fairly generalised answer unfortunately.
I'm presuming that by the point of committing the crime my offspring is an adult(i.e. 18+) has already been given the guidance and support and moral training that I can give through the preceding however many years, and also has a general sense of morality and no learning disabilities/other characteristics that may prevent them from understanding what they have done. Charges dependent I would be there to offer support and guidance while they go through the legal process of course(what parent wouldn't?), but I can't protect them from having to go through the process if they've done something wrong, because it gives the message that I'll be there to bail them out and they can get away with things they shouldn't.
Regardless, you're reading things into my answers that aren't there - they would be on their own in the sense that they've committed a crime and they alone have to deal with the consequence of that. The question wasn't about guidance and support, or even whether I've raised them right(which you have weirdly made assumptions about), it was about whether or not I'd protect them from the consequences of committing a crime. And the answer is that with one or two small exceptions, no, I don't think I would. But I would support them through it.