Should Parents Be Fined for Kids Behaving Badly?

Oooh spot the latest Council money making scheme. If children are suffering from lack of necessities such as decent housing, food, education, stimulation, protection from peer pressure, bullies and gang culture then yes they are going to become anti-social. Rather than making money off of the problem this Council would be better at serving its community by providing for them.

If the child can't control it, he/she should be put in a special school adequate for them.

Kids who hit themselves, bang their head against the floor, get angry for no reason... It's not as if they want to live like that. It's a possible sign of autism.

In a lot of cases the parents themselves don’t know how to deal with them so it’s difficult for them to get fined.

This is not the right way to handle these children.They need specialist help.Parents don't know how a child will turn out. They need help and advice not punishing with fines.

Some children are just naughty not they’ve learnt their bad behaviour from their parents but their peers.

It's a difficult one as you can't always blame the parents. A child can end up being bad despite the upbringing.

Depends on what the child has done. Bad behaviour varies. A kid stealing or breaking things fine but a kid screaming because they are having a meltdown because they have special needs or are 2 years old is different. Some will see that behaviour as bad behaviour when it's not. Yes all behaviour is a form of communication but there's allowing it and then saying actually no. Kids stealing and vandalism parents need to step up. Some do and it fails. Others give up when they have tried. Some don't try at all. My point is fining in theory sounds great but all we as a society is doing is failing families and the kids get failed even more. Kids people like me try and support

If a children has stolen something or vandalised something then maybe some sort of helping out in the community rather than a fine would be better. As a teacher I see loads of different behaviours, all caused by different things and sometimes punishment isn't what's needed. I'm not saying that is true of all cases, some definitely need there to be a punishment but understanding why they are behaving that way is important. Fines won't necessarily solve things.

I believe they should be. I've had a few abusive situations with kids. Parents should at least be warned or informed about their childrens behaviour

Every time. I'm from the older generation when if you were naughty you got punished in accordance with the severity of the naughtiness. If I got fined for my children and I told them this, they would suffer.

Needless to say they behaved themselves, because they knew what they would get. Grounded.

We have a nanny state that blames everyone but the parents.

There should be a 3 strike rule and then fine the parents.