November 17, 2008
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Would You Rat Out Your Child?
A mother in Milwaukee saw a video of her daughter and son on TV committing an armed robbery.
The mother called police and turned in her 16-year-old son and her 17-year-old daughter. Here is the link: Link
If you saw your children committing a crime on TV, would you turn them in?
Comments (202)
I’d talk to her first.. then yes, I probably would.
FIRST!
First I would smack some serious sense into the kid then I would hall her ass to jail.
hells no, i would reap 80% of the profit!
HECK YEA I would. It would escalate from there if she didn’t. They would continue to commit more robberies.
hell no.
besides, i’d probably be the getaway driver…
Yes
Id have them turn themselves in.
Yup. Seeing as my husband is a police officer he would be required to but I would anyway. They want to fool around, they pay the consequences.
Would!
I would feel compelled to. Yep.
I love them enough–yes I would.
Yes if there are commiting a crime they should be turned in.
I would talk to them first, and if they didn’t turn themselves in, I would turn them in.
Depends on what they were doing. In this case, yes.
In this case I would.
Yes I would.
Yes, I would
Of course not.
That would give me leverage on them for the rest of their lives. =D
Yes. As parents it’s hard for us to think about our kids doing something like that. But if they do, they deserve the punishment.
Yes. It is offensive that you call it “ratting them out”
Heck YES! If you make a mistake then you face the consequences.
Yes: that’s just good parenting!!
YES. i would rat out my child even for a much lesser crime. I’ve tattled on my kid for lying during therapy.He knows that i look for things to tell on him about. He’s super careful now.
My theory is that if he does it, he should experience the consequences.
Hell yeah. Stupid question there.
i have no idea
In a cold minute.
YEah, I tell my children if they ever break the law and get locked up in jail Im not bailing them out, they have to learn their lesson.
It would be hard, but yes. For her own good and because if I didn’t I could be charged as an accessory or something. But my daughter has such an overdeveloped conscience she’d never pull something like that.
no; i would run down there and run into the place and tell my kid not to forget the big bills under the trays.
I would sit down and talk to my children and explain the situation and why I am turning them in. Although they would already know atleast I wouldnt be hinding it from them.
But eventually, yes I would turn my child/children in for a crime.
Heck yes,
I think, it depends on the crime.
YES! Then I would kick their little A**’s all of the way to the jail house… What were they thinking?!
I don’t know, but that sure is a great picture.
I would hope to talk to them but I would do it for their sake if I had to.
Would talk to him/her first (AKA reprimand them and talk some sense into them), then I would drag him/her down to the police station.
yea i would.. but hopefully i do my job right and i wont have to
Absolutely.
yes, because i would feel responsible for his/her actions
Yes I would, but only after I have given them a chance to do the right thing and turn themselves in. If they don’t do it on their own accord then I turn their happy asses in myself. Tough love is the best kind of love in a situation like this.
~~> My oldest daughter was 5 yrs old when we had gone shopping at a Shop Rite. As we walked toward the parking lot, her coat was making more noise than usual, I stopped and asked her what she had in her pockets. To my surprise she had several candy bars that I had not purchased. We walked back to the market and I called for the manager. I asked him to contact the police because I had a thief to turn in. I winked at the manager and he followed my lead wonderfully, she apologized and cried a great deal. The man took back the candy and let her off with a warning. She learned to respect what was not hers. I did this because I love her!
why does the stick figuer robber have to be black?
Yup. It would be best for everyone!
yes =/
If I saw my kids commit armed robbery or a similar crime on TV it would be in their best interest and mine to turn them in.
I would not say ‘yes’ for every crime, however. There are some technically criminal actions (i.e. using drugs) that I would deal with on my own.
I would hope that I have instilled in them to take responsibility for their actions, and they would turn themselves in. But IF they were having a poor lapse in judgement, I would turn them in.
yes, as any good mother would
A lot of people here are commenting on how they would turn their children, but in all honesty wouldn’t be able to come forth and do it.
It’s a much harder question than you’re making it out to be.
You’re a parent first. Your job is to protect your children. Turning them in would certainly put an end to that role. If convicted they’d probably be sent to prison for years. You’d endanger their well-being. Prison is not the prettiest place.
As a citizen you also obligated to do the right thing.
In all honesty I wouldn’t turn them in. But they wouldn’t have a place in my home. That I can assure. But I couldn’t turn them in. It’d break my heart, to have my children resent me for the rest of their lives over it. I’d be partly at fault, my parenting skills weren’t enough to prevent the situation, but I also know my parenting instinct would kick in. I’d have to protect them without harboring them.
They dug their own grave I just refuse to put them in it.
Probably
Yes.
I don’t know. Ask me when I have kids.
If I saw my fiance rob a story on video….who would change my oil if I turned him in and he got sent to jail???
@SunnyMitsu – lol
its better than hiding your kids away so they don’t get caught.
its tough to turn your kid in, but its the right thing to do.
i’ve heard stories of mothers who protect their serial killer children. it disgusts me
~GiGi
for a crime like that, yeah definitely just for society’s sake. the problem is that if they’re still my children and they’re minors, i may have to deal with the charges……..
Fuck yeah I would.
I don’t exempt anyone from what they deserve ;D
No.
Wow, almost everyone said yes.
absolutely.
Depends on the crime. Armed robbery? You bet.
@saintvi - I’d rat myself out, like someone else we know who pulled up next to a cop and said, “I think I did something wrong.”
@trebleclef402 - LMAO – I’d forgotten about that!
definitely they are not the people i knew if they used a gun to get what they wanted.
i would leave the country!
!!!!!!!
@Tiger11007 - omg….thats really scary~!
What part?
TOTALLY.
I would talk to them first, and see what was going on. I wouldn’t want to rat them out if it was an Edward Scissorhands type of thing.
Yes. It’s a bad crime, but not a serious one in case of someone actually being killed. What if you let them off and then a month later they do it again only shooting and possibly killing someone?
@Alle_in_Ashe - that’s horrible. you actually look for things to get your kid in trouble? you shouldn’t be a parent.
Hell my mom always told my brother and I that if we were ever arrested for something she would let us sit in the cell and stew for a few days before she would come and get us. Kept us out of trouble.
Also you are talking to someone who once told a drug abusing friend that if he ever set one foot inside my house ever again I would have the police there so fast he would not know what hit him. I have no shame in calling people on their stupidity and making them face the concequences.
i sure hope i never have to find out what i really would do in that situation…
I’ve already called the police on my oldest son, who is 17 years old, several times already for being very violent towards me and his younger brother. So, hell yes, I would turn my children in if they committed a crime!
Mhmm. They gotta learn.
Yeah, I probably would.
I had to do something similar a long time ago. It hurt like hell to do it, but it was necessary. Even knowing the pain of it, I’d do it again.
Of course. I wouldn’t have love for my child if I didn’t care to correct her, even if that meant using the judicial system. Punishment has to fit the crime. But I would be mortified if that were the case because it would say a lot about me as a parent, so hopefully my daughter will never stoop so low…
YES! YES! I would hold myself back from literly smacking the shit of of them w/ possibility of killing both of them! NO talking to them, You want to commit a crime, Then you haveto do the time that goes with it! lol.
that’s called “tough love” and yes, I believe in it!
@Tiger11007 -the part wher u frigthened ur kid
=(
I think a lot of people are being a little unrealistic when they say they’d give up their kids to the cops. Honestly, I don’t think I’d be able to turn in my kid. I’d try to talk them into turning themselves in and hope I didn’t fail as a parent (which if they’re knock over liquor stores, I probably already did).
When you’re a parent, you’re a parent before you’re a good samaritan. Your kids always come first.
It depends on what they did. Chances are I would sit them down and talk to them about how wrong it is to do something like that and if they didn’t turn themselves in, I would. Or at least I think that’s what I’d do. :/ Never been in that boat before so I won’t know unless it happens.
Yes I would. There are consequences to every action, and if I hadn’t been a good enough parent to teach them that holding up a store with a weapon wasn’t a ‘good idea’, then maybe the law could teach them better then I could. Sad.
@sarahb_86 - Yeah, my mom pretty much said the same thing when I was growing up and I definitely believed her. haha! Damn the fear of my parents wrath and this ‘moral compass’ thing I can’t seem to get rid of.
No bank robbing or murder in my future either…
i’d rather they turn themselves in, but if not, then I’m game for tough love.
@bethechangeyouwish2see - lol. Hel hath no fury like my mother when she is pissed!
@AilinCorazon - You said it better than I did.
No
@Lithium98 - Thanks
Oh, lol! Well I felt that I had to because this was not learned behavior. She needed to understand that it feels bad to have someone take something that doesn’t belong to them. Now at 19 she remembers that day and understands what I tried to do for her.
Of course. Think about the victims side. I know that has to be painful for turning in your child but you can’t let people get away with a crime when there next one could be prevented plus you can give the victims security knowing that the robber is in jail.
You have to do the right thing and you shouldn’t feel guilty about doing it either. If you feel guilty remind yourself that your doing the right thing and keep on praying.
Your child can get more help plus you have to be disciplined for something you’ve done. You can’t let this go without there being some sort of punishment.
God bless you.
Yes because I’d be afraid that it would escalate. Also if you didn’t that would probably make you an accomplice.
Yeah.
yea, I would…but honestly it doesn’t reflect well on the parent…not because she ratted her kids out, but because she obviously didn’t pay jacksh*t attention to how she was raising them…
IF my daughter managed to make it home without being caught. 1) I would have a serious talk with her. 2) I would put her in the car (willingly or not) along with the money she stole. 3) I would drive her to the police station and make her turn herself in.
I don’t think I’d call the police without talking to her first.
Yes.
Yeah. If you didn’t, they might get worse and do worse things, then get into huge trouble.
@Tiger11007 - wow i guess this is what they call tuff love huh?
maybe some day when i have kids i will understand….
absolutely. children need to understand that although we love them, that doesn’t mean we’ll ‘turn a blind eye’ on their poor decision making. i would probably feel like a failure as a parent, though, if my child did something this extreme. :(
I’d say yes. If I don’t do it, eventually, they’ll get caught anyways. So what’s the point?
Yes it is. They are used to it by now. For my kids this is the norm. They have grown to know that although I love them, I’m not blind. A mother can’t cover the sky with one hand. Our kids are not perfect and they should not be protected when they’ve done something like this.
no child of mine should ever commit such a felony.
i would rat my child out.
Of course not.
Absolutely. You do the crime, you do the time. Especially if we’ve given her everything she needs to get off to a good start. Underprivileged kids have somewhat of an excuse. My daughter will have none.
Absofuckinglutely. I have an overdeveloped sense of justice and you better fucking believe I’d someone to prosecute the hell out of my kids if they ever did that.
This is why the campaign for Stop Snitchin’ started. No, seriously, I wouldn’t. I believe there’s a code amongst family, and unless one of the members has done something to physically hurt you, never get the police involved. There’s always another way. People make mistakes, and from personal dealings with friends, people come out of jail/prison a lot worse than when they went in. Just my personal opinion.
I would turn them in for sure. Perhaps spme time in jail would make them think twice about doing anything like that again.
my mom certainly doesn’t, and I don’t commit crimes, it’s her son that does, and she don’t do shit about it. But I don’t know about me.
Yes.
Yup I sure would
I would advise my child to turn them self in but I would turn him/her in if he/she refused to take responsibility. I try to teach my children that it is important to take responsibility for your own actions, so I hope that I would never be in that situation. I hope that I am raising my children well enough that they will not commit a crime in the first place.
Yes!
Ooh, tough one. Yes, I probably would.
Lol. I’m sitting her on the couch with my mom.
Me : Mommy if I committed armed robbery would you turn me in?
Mom : No, but I’d beat the hell outta you.
yes
I don’t know if my kids would be in any condition to be given to anyone but a doctor once I got through with them. If they were, yes. Committing crimes is NEVER ok, and if you’re going to do it, you better be able to live with all that comes with it.
yep.
Yes I would. If I didn’t, I would not have been able to live with the guilt.
Probably not.
I don’t think I would…at least not the first time.
(Wow, I’m minutes from Millwaukee. Represent…)
That’s a tough situation but yeah, I wouldn’t protect them from the law if they’ve done something wrong.
HHmmm…This is a tough one. I cant decide right now but I do know this:::::
I would not habor him/them. I would not let them stay inside my house and protect them while they are being a fugitive
I would have to although it would be difficult.
Yes! I would.
My kids would be praying that the cops found them before I did.
hell no. i wood not turn my kids in. jail does not correct children.
ill return the money, and FIX MY KIDS by myself.
On TV? Wouldn’t you say that they’re as much as already turned-in?
No.
Of course. I would tell them I was going to do it first. As a parent, you have to punish your children. When they’re young, you’d put them in time out or ground them.. when they’re adults, they’re put in prison.
I would confront my children first. After the conversation, I would call the police.
Sure as hell would.
Send them kids to some hardcore military boot camp.
That’ll teach ‘em.
If I had kids and they did something like that I’d have to look back at myself first and see where I went wrong, Then I’d call the cops and be like “yeah that’s my kids, I’m a horrible parent for not teaching them better.”
most definitly not!!!!! i could never give up my own children. i would advise them to give themselves up, but i could not betray my children.
anyone who would, i would question their loyalty and parenting.
hmm, i’m not sure. i know my mother wouldn’t, but my mother-in-law certainly would!
My parents would.
I wouldn’t. It’s the parents who end up paying shit.
@padrinomiguel - I call it tough love. I rather my child in jail than on the streets and getting killed.
@spicyhotcoffee - How does that code help the victims? From my experience, the code just allows the violent cycle to continue in the community. Not only that, I’d rather my family in jail than dying in the streets.
@Tiger11007 - Ah, I love to hear stories of responsible moms in this day and age. Thank you for sharing it. Your daughter has a great mother.
yes. my kids are not exempt from abiding by the law. i’ve turned in my brother several times. it’s not hard to do when you know it’s the RIGHT thing to do.
i cannot believe the comment that suggests those parents that would turn their children in would have questionable loyalty. are you fucking kidding me? i love my children which is WHY i WOULD turn them in. i question the parenting of those who wouldn’t!!
I’d be torn. I was in possession of stolen property when I was 12, being a dumbass. Someone turned themselves in first, then I went in too. I went through the legal system and paid my debt and never broke any laws ever again, I don’t even download music for gods sakes. I’ve dedicated my mid/late teens and early 20′s to serving the poor, going down to mexico to build homes, earning my college degrees, eagle scout, black belt and a laundry list of commendations…found jesus, all that crap…and still the law violation prevents me from doing the jobs I’ve already done as a civilian, in the military. All I want is to do serve, Ive done reconstruction and have been a college athlete and have been privy to UAV and Nuclear Reactors (Engineering) …and still it bites me in the ass. In about 4 more years Ill rethink this question, because once Im in the military it seems like I can then move into those civil affairs jobs I have experience/passion for…but if it forever fucks me….I just don’t know.
@thisboyissexy - Thank you!
@Inferior_Superiority - my kid got himself into a shit load of trouble on his own. As a part of his Out patient treatment program i am REQUIRED to report anything that he does that could be just suggesting that he’s even bending a rule.
If i don’t report his behaviour or actions then I could be punished as the courts would say i wasn’t following the treatment plan and he would also be removed from our home and placed in an Incare treatment program.
My kid knows that his dad and i are constantly on the lookout for what he’s doing. He knows we do this in his best intrest for his completion of the program.
If this makes me horrible and that i shouldn’t be a parent, then so be it.
My kid fucked up. I do my job to help him. Fuck you.
Of course!
@thisboyissexy - why are they getting killed? why are they on the steets?
@Alle_in_Ashe - you had me actually taking back half of my statement. til you got all shitty.
but still doesn’t mean you have to sit and look for ways to fuck your kid over.
i’ve messed up. i’ll admit to it. woo. i regret it horribly. and my parents may not know how i regret it every day, but still doesn’t mean they are thinking of ways to sit and just think of ways to bust my ass.
I’d yell at them first and then drive them straight to the police station.
@Inferior_Superiority - once again, i wasn’t putting him into situations that would cause failure. I was just watching him closely… like a parent should.
I never set him up to do something where i would eed to tattle. I just told what i saw.
4 years ago i would have handled him myself, or kept the problem within the family, but he took that option away from us when he involved the authorities. His behaviour is now between him and the state. I hate it. I wish we could handle it but we can’t. and i refuse to be punished anymore than we already have for his poor decisions.
I’m sorry i got shitty. It was unnecessary. Passing judgement before you know the situation isn’t cool either though, youknow. It was kinda shitty for you to suggest that me doing what is required of me (as a parent) makes me unfit to be a parent. I get kinda touchy when people do that.
@LadyValkyrie37 - sorry you’ve had to go through that
Yes I would. Then I would do my best to work with the courts to get my kids the help they need.
@Alle_in_Ashe - I’m sorry, but the way you presented it at first seemed childish and insignificant, but now, I know that’s not the case.
I guess my parents just raised me different. I’m still well.. pretty much a kid. I’ve made bad choices, and was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and I should have known better. I guess no matter how you raise your kids, things will happen, and well.. I’ve learned from my fuck-ups.
But after that’s happened, my parents, more specifically my mom, just want me to be honest with them.
@Inferior_Superiority - Honesty really is important. If my kid could be honest it’d be a blessing. I truely hope you’re honest with your parents especially since they seem to be supportive of you.
I know that I’ve had to change my parenting style since all this started. I used to be alot more laid back and trusting. I’m not allowed to be anymore. I don’t like it. I wish i could just trust him to make good choices. *shrugs* I suppose we’re all delt different cards.
I don’t know. I just don’t.
@thisboyissexy - You’re right, it doesn’t help the victims. I have an obligation to protect my family, no matter what, right or wrong (<~personal opinion). I may have a moral obligation to be honest to the world about any criminal activity that I have knowledge of, but I don’t think I could live with myself knowing one of my family members was in jail because of me (not directly, but I would still blame myself). In the minds of some, death in the streets might be a better option than some of the traumatizing activities that go on in prison. Neither can be described as a rosy end.
Absolutely! These kids need to know what’s right and wrong and that their actions have consequences for THEM.
I did exactly that once – ratted my son out – called the cops – when I found him and a friend smoking weed in my house in jr. high. WHEN I WAS HOME! And threw the evidence in the toilet but didn’t flush it. They were so stupid. Calling the cops helped to break up a whole drug ring in that school, as they were encouraged to spill their guts about how they were buying it at school. Passing it in math books, etc… Thankfully my other two kids are smart enough not to do anything that dumb.
Kids need to learn to suffer their own consequences. Parents shouldn’t have to cover up or pay for their kids mistakes.
what the fuck? hell yeah
I’d decapitate and flay their heads, then mount them on burning pikes outside my home for the world to see.
Yep!
I would do it right away
Hell yes, I would smack them so hard their heads would spin on the way to jail.
Yes, I would.
Yup, if they committed the crime they have to pay. I think it’s illegal not to actually.
Either way though, getting busted may very well save their lives.
hecks yea
Depends. Is their take more or less than the reward?
But seriously? If it’s a nonviolent crime? F#ck the police. Because prisons reform people so well.
@MadisonLinh - THANK YOU! Jeez, everyone is saying yes. Families before American’s broken legal justice system and industrial prison complex.
@denigma21 - i know right? jail isnt the best form reeducation. it only helps delay it.
In a heartbeat.
Yeah. I’d also turn myself in for being a horrible parent.
My reason being for saying this is because although jail doesn’t fix anything…well jail doesn’t have any effective programs for rebuilding broken criminals. But if I didn’t turn my kid in, he/she would think there are no consequences for their actions. Part of the discipline is to realize there are consequences for your behavior. Whether or not I am his or her parent isn’t the concern, but the fact that they broke the law…they are dealt with the law. The only jursidiction I would have had over them is raising them properly, which had this been done properly would this happen? Yes I am questioning the parents ability to raise their children. I personally know a lot of fucked up people that made it out ok, because they FINALLY listening to their parents’ guidance. They finally get it. Kids still have their free will that’s true, but if they went and strayed off like that did they have any guidance at all to begin with? Can you really say those children were raised properly if they went off to rob someone?
The point is it’s the parents’ responsibility to instill the morals and the guidance within a child. What do you think gives me a right to say this even though I have no children? I was once a kid (I didn’t rob a bank though), my parents’ guidance helped, and personally I’ll say it does make a difference when you’re raised right. Also, I don’t believe in that “I was raised in a shitty environment”. Yeah and? I know people who were too, but because of their parents they didn’t succumb to peer pressure to do stupid shit. For example…my African-American classmate Daniel. He was raised in one of the worst neighborhoods, hell the neighbors were always drug dealing. His parents both raised him (although they are divorced now), but he’s going to school along with me and doing fine beginning to work out a plan for his career.
If I committed a crime I would want my parents to turn me in. You know what’s wrong and you know what’s right. If your parents didn’t turn you in, your parents are in violation of the law, which no better reflects on what kind of parent you are. More like a parent in denial. If you didn’t raise your child in a way that prevents this type of behavior,what makes you think you can fix it when they’ve already committed the crime? Oh and might I add if you abuse your kids like, what I would call “overdiscipline” like beating the shit out of them…that doesn’t help. Another friend I know, is all fucked up from this. His dad is former Air Force and both his parents take their discipline waaaaay too far. Even so, after breaking into cars, being chased by helicopters, crashing nearly every car I’ve seen that man own, and taking drugs and shit…he’s starting to straighten out.
Who says they can’t be reducated by you as they are serving their time. Do you think it helps when they go free after they’ve committed a crime simply because you wish to reeducate them? Little late isn’t it?
I would talk to them first hand, tell them they know that we have to do the right thing, and turn them in.
I think so.
If I was their age and all I got was “re-education” as a consequence, I’d do it again. Let’s give the story a twist. A 16 year old boy and his 15 year old sister rob a bank with the result of 2 people dead. One is your own dear cousin, not even 20, going to the bank to pull a loan out for his/her last year of college. The other is a senior about the age of 63, she was at the bank to withdraw money to send to her grandaughter for her 15th birthday.
Obviously this is theoretical, but had this really happened (which I’m sure something similar has considering the deteriorating condition of the following generations), would you really think of it as justice when they just get some damn slap on the wrist?
she probably wanted to get rid of them herself!
what better way!!!!
but to answer your question….
i’d do the right thing and call the cops.
if my son and daughter were committing armed robbery… it would be only a matter of time that they’d be committing murder.
Yep. But hopefully I would have raised my kids well enough that they don’t run around committing crimes.
First I tell them I love them, unconditionally. I would tell them to turn themselves in.
And if they refuse, then I turn them in.
yes, i would. Because every criminal out there is someones daughter or son. If we’re all nice to every daughter and son, what would get done in the world? I wouldn’t let out it was me, though. Any kid of mine would be hella dangerous.
I know that I would try to first get them to turn themselves in. But if they did not, I would turn them in. Thats what loving your kids is, trying to get them to make the right decisions, and if they don’t make the right decision, then you discipline them. Plus if I did not, that would be allowing them to get away with it and then the DCFS would be on my doorstep. I could really use a vacation from my kids…downfall, if it was my kids, they would be sitting in a cell with their bio-mom probably
@MadisonLinh - Prison is the ultimate institution of higher education for criminals. White ppl need to start beating their kids.
“Naw I don’t want to rob a bank with you, dawg. My pops is gonna whoop my ass with a bamboo duster handle again.”
Yes. That’ll learn ‘em one. I don’t care if people think “I’m a bad parent” because my kids robbed an establishment. By the time that kids are 16/17 years old, they’ve figured out their own way of thinking. If they’re going to rob a place, they’re going to rob a place, and just the same they are going to deal with the consequences on their own.
I should go down the street and get the Journal Sentinel just to see the article. I love Milwaukee.
After I beat the livin’ snot out of them both, then prompty took, sold or threw out all of their “fun” stuff so they know what its like to have things taken from them…
Absolutely, I would turn them in. Letting them get away with it does them no favors. And it will encourage them to try it again. AND… if they ever get shot in the future, or hurt someone else – it would be on YOU for not stopping them.
You have a responsibility to your children – but also to society and mankind as a whole.
Yes. they broke serious laws. It would be slightly different if they were jaywalking.
I have 4 kids and if they ever did anything like that I would beat the ever-loving shit outta them and then make them call the cops on themselves!
Yup.
No. I would make them stand in “time out.” I would tell them “that’s not nice to rob people” then I would make them apologize. I probably would ground them from their Wii or their cell phone, but not both–that would be mean. Children need to be encouraged to be nice and not take things that don’t belong to them, but sometimes they just forget.
It’s not like they murdered someone. If they did that, I would be really mad and I would yell at them real loud, plus do all the other things I already said. I would not spank them for robbing someone.
My children have had a rough childhood, so I really have a hard time blaming them for some of the things they do. They haven’t been as fortunate as other children, so I think they deserve some breaks once in a while.
I’d hope I would be capable of raising them with the morals they need not to do such a thing. If that was the case I’d hope they’d turn themselves in. I don’t think I’d call the police over a robbery. Murder would be a different story.
let’s hope my family situation won’t turn out to be that bad..in this case..if I can’t talk them into turning them selves in..then yes, I’d turn in my own flesh and blood to justice wa’ahwa’ah
@denigma21 - LOL hahahhahhahaaaa…
Yes. I’d rat him or her out in a heartbeat. It’s called tough love. Also, I tend to believe in justice even though I know it doesn’t always work.
I would talk to them first– then if they continue then I might take action.
When I was little, I had a problem with stealing. I’m still grateful that my parents sat me down and taught me personally /why/ that was wrong rather than simply hauling me to jail. Granted, stealing chap-stick was not armed robbery; the concept still is the same. I would want to support my child and make sure that they know that they are wrong and how to be correct without putting them through hell that I have no control over.
I’d make her turn herself in. That way, the charges wouldn’t be as severe.
@fivepts - your children do not sound like they have a rough childhood if they have wii’s and cellphones. and getting grounded for “robbing someone.”
THAT’S NOT SOMETHING NICE.
IT’S A FUCKING FELON!!!!
I WOULD KICK MY KID’S ASS.
I’d have to find out what was going on, then, depending on the crime, I most likely would turn her in.
@immaairheadxl - It’s called SARCASM.
Sadly, many people read my response and thought it made sense. Any parent that WOULDN’T turn in their own children–knowing they had committed a felony–should be thrown in jail…right along with their good for nothin’ kids. There are NO extenuating circumstances in this situation.
@Mommies_Little_Helper - You sound like a great mom!!! Seriously. You get my vote.
@fivepts - oh, i’m sorry! at first – i thought it came off as sarcasm..but then it came to the point where itk ept going on and on…sounding like a parent who doesn’t care what their kids do and that their kids will always be right.
Of course….it would be the right thing to do.
I would turn them into the police for fear of murdering them in their sleep.
@fivepts - I try..lol
I would turn them in the minute I became aware of the incident. And I wouldn’t post bail for them either.
depends on the crime. i’d probably make them turn themselves in though.
Yes- a crime is a crime, no matter who commits it. We shouldn’t be soft on people just because they happen to be related to us, child or no.
Yep. What are you teaching your child if you don’t enforce rules and respect. The law is the law, I’d talk with them first, encourage them to turn themselves in. But the call will be made if they decide not to.
@denigma21 - LOL
As a responsible citizen; certainly. As an obviously failed parent, I’d then turn myself in for gross negligence!
hell yeah I would. How else would they learn hahaha
@RaVnR - RAV!!! Do you know what happens in jail? For crying out loud! If you send your own children to prison you will have them return strangers. Make no mistake about it! I want to meet you so clean up your act!!!
it would be awkward, but yes