Parental Responsibility Debate

Cluster focuses on arguments blaming parents for children's issues, such as online safety or behavior, rather than government, tech companies, or society, advocating for personal accountability over external regulations.

➡️ Stable 0.6x Politics & Society
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Keywords

UK AI CPS CYA parents children kids parent child responsibility parenting society responsible blame

Sample Comments

lupire Sep 16, 2021 View on HN

Children aren't the problem. Parents are.

xtracto May 26, 2022 View on HN

Where are the parents / guardians in all this? They should be responsible for the way their kids are raised, and their actions.

89a Jan 17, 2013 View on HN

Why can't parents take responsibility of their kids.

daydreamnation Aug 11, 2018 View on HN

I blame the parents, not the kids.

rpiguy Jun 26, 2019 View on HN

The children are victims of their parents' decision, not our government. Blame the parents.

alar44 Jan 17, 2023 View on HN

Maybe they should jail the parents instead? Your kids, your responsibility.

SpaghettiCthulu Aug 20, 2024 View on HN

Parents are failing kids. Not the government. Not big tech companies.

sverige May 8, 2019 View on HN

The children are being victimized by their parents' bad decisions to break existing law, not by the law itself. Whatever happened to the idea of personal responsibility and the accountability of parents to make good decisions for their children?

tmoravec Jul 1, 2023 View on HN

Interesting about parents not being trustworthy to look out for their kids best interest. If not parents, who is?

callmejoe Jun 27, 2021 View on HN

would that not be the parent's responsibility then?this argument reeks of "but think of the children" fallacy.