This has been proposed in the past and is a good start but why end at the parents..
I say let the kids pay for it when they get older with no rights to Welfare or Passport until their bill is totally paid off. This can be achieve in a loan repayment format that will follow them until the bill is paid off. Can't leave the country and can't collect Welfare until the bill is paid..
Parents can do their best to bring up their kids but eventually the kids have to be responsible to their own acts.. We keep saying we must not punish those who not deserve it yet we do so in this fashion.. Time to make the ones who commit crime pay..
This proposed legislation still has way to many ways out..
CTV.ca | N.S. Tories plan to make parents pay for kids' crimes
I say let the kids pay for it when they get older with no rights to Welfare or Passport until their bill is totally paid off. This can be achieve in a loan repayment format that will follow them until the bill is paid off. Can't leave the country and can't collect Welfare until the bill is paid..
Parents can do their best to bring up their kids but eventually the kids have to be responsible to their own acts.. We keep saying we must not punish those who not deserve it yet we do so in this fashion.. Time to make the ones who commit crime pay..
This proposed legislation still has way to many ways out..
DARTMOUTH, N.S. -- The Nova Scotia Conservatives are planning to make parents pay for some of their children's crimes.
Premier Rodney MacDonald said Friday that parents could be liable for damages if their kids commit theft or property offences.
Under the proposed law, property owners could start civil action for damages up to $5,000.
At an election campaign news conference, MacDonald said the move is part of the Conservative plan to help victims of crime.
"People are frustrated when a young person damages their property or steals something from them and receives what they feel is a fairly light sentence," he said.
"The child usually has no means to pay for the damage or replace what is stolen, so the victim is left to do that. I don't think that's fair."
The premier adds that the new law would recognize certain parental defences.
He said those defences would include that the parent was exercising reasonable supervision over the child at the time the child committed the offence.
CTV.ca | N.S. Tories plan to make parents pay for kids' crimes