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Melissa has a point, a child watching their father beat their mother is "statistically" more apt to beat his or her spouse then that child that didn't see such atrocities. Of course this example still goes back to my main point of Parents are ultimately responsible.

Yes, I believe a kid does have to take responsibility for his actions, but, here again it lies with the parents to discipline their children when they do something wrong!

Parents are ALWAYS involved. (Rather they should be involved, it's the ones that aren't that contribute to jail filling psychopaths we have now.)

Why push it off on the police to punish your child? That's again pushing the responsibility off on to someone else.

Unless they're 17-19 doing something illegal then hell yeah let the police toss their stupid butt in jail and they can sit there for a couple days and see how that feels before you go bail them out for being slowed.

Melissia wrote:Everything effects moral development in children, from what food you eat to what games you play to how you treat your spouse to... EVERYTHING.

This. Although kids are in the long run responsible themselves for everything they do and all moral choices they make. I hate to see parents get blamed for some kid that is being a total .

Although those things you mentioned could definitely leave a subconscious negative impression on morals.

I am not saying kids grow up to emulate their parents at all galacticdefender, some do, some dont. I am nothing like either of my parents. My parents are very very conservative, yet my brother is a drummer in three death metal bands, a complete rebel. My parents raised him to do what makes him happy, they dont care that his views are 180 degrees different from theirs so long as he does the right thing, lives his life how he wants to, and is happy with himself and his actions.

I recall when we were younger, if we did something wrong, my mom would smack us with a frying pan on the backside. Now, many years later, my sister is the event coordinator for Berkley university with a masters degree from Oxford and I an environmental engineering major at UCONN. A child's actions are based on how that child is raised and it falls to the parents to decide whether or not a child should play a game, not the government.