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Originally Posted by stevie667
I don't believe they should send the father to jail, but he should be forced to support the kid and given a myriad of other penalties to punish him for stupidity, and serve as a warning to others.
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I disagree with punishing the father more. Anything you do to him is just going to make him resent the situation (more) and make it harder to do what he can for the kid to try to give him some kind of life. I think the child here has enough stacked against it without us as a society going out of our way to make the parents lives more difficult. How about instead of sending the kid to jail(what I'm sure the prosecution is going for) and/or other punishment, we say 'hey, you can stay out of jail(ect) if you get a job and finish school. Sure, it's hard, but it's better than jail'. Of course it's probably all a moot point anyway because I see no way social services isn't going to take the kid away, which they probably should.