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Should parents be responsible? Shit yes. These idiots had no clue who their kid had become insane. What kind of parent doesn't know their child at all? A bad parent. I don't know if they should go to prison, but they should be allowed to raise kids anymore than someone with a DUI should be able to drive. They're shown they aren't responsible enough to be parents.
Also the schools. If they could take the standardized tests and assembly line teaching strategy out of their asses for just a second, they could see just how important school can be in the development of a child. Childhood and adolescence is an incredibly difficult time for most people, and providing a safe and healthy environment to develop in is pinnacle.
Also the government. I'm sorry, but the prison system doesn't work at all. The idea of simply punishing instead of preventing is, and I choose my words carefully here, the worst problem in the US today. A few years ago, my mother (psychologist) worked with a program called "Second Step", which was designed to prevent criminal behavior by providing a better school environment for children. Empathy training, impulse control and problem solving, and anger management are taught to young children grades preschool through 5th grade. It saw incredible success in less than a year, and the children have subsequently ALL gone on to be very successful, productive, and healthy. The program was cut. Apparently, there wasn't enough money in the budget to prevent crime. After all, we need to pay for the prison industrial complex.
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