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If afive-year-old commits a crime, should the parents be held responsible and punished? What is the age of the child do you think parents should not take the responsibility?

Some people argue that if a child aged five commits a crime, his or her parents should be held accountable and be punished accordingly. Others dispute this. My personal opinion sides with the former.

First of all, it is stipulated in law that parents, as the sole guardians of their children, are responsible for all their misconducts. That is quite reasonable actually because almost all the notions of children in their early age are either inherited from or learned from their parents. In other words, the youngsters' misdeeds are mainly the consequence oftheir parents' replicating their own transgressions.

Also, even if some teenagers commit a crime and try to imitate some violent scenes on television, their parents should never shun their responsibilities either. The reason lies in the fact that adults are supposed to decide which television programmes their children could have access to. And if they fail to perform this task, parents should be responsible for explaining the context of violence in TV shows to their children. Furthermore, it is believed that before the children are going to commit a crime, their behaviors seem to be somehow eccentric. And it is the parents who can notice these signs in time and take some precautionary measures.

In conclusion, parents should be held responsible for the offenses of their children regardless of whether the adults influence the young to do so. However, after the young have passed their adolescence, specifically on their 18th birthday, they should be developed well enough both mentally and physically. Hence, they, rather than their parents,should take responsibility for their own actions.