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Our First Night Home

Our first night home with our sons was like parenting by fire. Our oldest son Steve had beautiful curly hair and big brown eyes. We noticed that he kept scratching his head and we could not figure out why until we looked. His hair was moving! We never had any experience with lice before this very day and now we were driving to the nearest 24 hour pharmacy and buying lice treatments. There was so many different choices which one should I choose? I bought the one I saw on TV, more proof that advertising works I guess. We brought … Continue reading →

Holding Parents Responsible For the Actions of Their Children

Parents have always been held liable, to a certain extent for their children’s actions in the United States. Some of the early parental liability statutes provided the juvenile court system jurisdiction over parents who had “contributed to the delinquency of a minor” My father spoke often of the “Truant Officer” who spends the day looking for wayward youth and sent notice of fines to his parents. During the past several years, parental liability laws have become much more popular due to societies fear of juvenile crime. Public support for new laws holding parents responsible for the actions of their dependent … Continue reading →