Tag: Parents

Should Parents be Allowed to Refuse Vaccines for Their Children?

Should Parents be Allowed to Refuse Vaccines for Their Children?

You are sitting in the waiting room at the doctor’s office when you hear a mother yelling at the doctor that she’s not allowing her 8 month old to have a flu vaccine. The doctor clearly looks distressed, and you think to yourself, “How can a mother refuse a vaccine that could prevent her child […]

Should Parents be Legally Responsible When Their Child Commits a Serious Crime?

Should Parents be Legally Responsible When Their Child Commits a Serious Crime?

If a child is under 18 and they commit a serious crime, I think that the parent is obligated to get into trouble, maybe not jail time, just maybe something like parenting classes, because if that child is getting into trouble and the parent doesn’t realize it, that is usually due to bad parenting.  I’ve […]

Should Parents Have More Say Over School Curriculum?

Should Parents Have More Say Over School Curriculum?

When I was in high school there we subjects that I had to take in order to graduate that just didn’t make sense to me. For example, I think that some subjects should of been electives, such as P.E, art class and music class. Who wants to take art when they either have no interest […]

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