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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
Sorry, but no.
Just because some children may smoke pot, steal bicycles or even, in some exceptional rare cases, commit murder, you don't punish the parents, you punish the perpetrators.
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Actually, in the specific case of murder, in the UK at least, the parents would be prosecuted if they failed to report a murder which they knew that their children had committed. The UK used to have an offence called "misprision of felony" which made it a crime to fail to report
any felony. This was abolished in 1967, but was replaced by laws making it an offence to fail to report specific offences such as treason, murder, and terrorism, as well as various financial crimes.