Tag: teenagers
This Is Not The Way Things Were Supposed To Work
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 05:54:21 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Since 1999, states have enacted Safe Haven laws as measures to help protect the most vulnerable among us. For the most part, the laws allow parents or guardians, to surrender children they are responsible for with the state. They are intended to remove younger children (you might say babies) from threatening environments and not punish the surrendering custodian. Most of the laws are quite strictly worded, along those lines. Nebraska apparently is not one of these as, within a few months of enactment of that state's Safe Haven law, two older children have been surrendered under the Safe Haven law - inappropriately in the minds of many Nebraskans.
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To What Standard Of Responsibility Should Parents Be Held?
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 08:22:13 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The law says a person should be held responsible for his or her own actions. But, in cases where the actor is a juvenile, some states have passed parental responsibility laws. Most of these laws involve fining or charging parents the cost of adjudicating their children's cases. Recently, we discussed new laws visiting criminal penalties on parents who fail to control their wayward children. But, do you charge a parent with a crime commensurate with what you charge their child with? Such a question is being answered in the affirmative in Florida as authorities have charged a parent with second degree manslaughter for a car crash her son caused.
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How To Turn Teenaged Grab Ass Into Sexual Assault
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Wed Jul 25, 2007 at 09:46:49 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Teenagers are different from the rest of us. They don't necessarily see things the way adults do. But, seeing things differently from adults can have all sorts of consequences. Two 13-year-olds from McMinnville, Oregon may find the consequences are huge. They thought they were engaging in a standard form of saying hello to other teenagers in school. Other people might feel what they did was nothing more than harmless horseplay. Adult authority has a different opinion of what they did. Because adult authority tends to rule the day, Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison could end up spending several years in juvenile detention and be listed on a sexual offender registry for the rest of their lives.
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