WOULD YOU SHOP YOUR CHILD TO THE POLICE/SHOPPING YOUR CHILD TO THE POLICE IS WRONG AND UNNATURAL
Dear Editor and readers,
To my opinion it is an unnatural act, that parents shop their child to the police
The duty of parents is to protect their children and not to shop them to the police, thus destroying the children’s chance on a good career and future
It is also destroying the trust and good relatiion between parents and children
Because if children can’t count on the natural protection, to whom they can turn?
Of course this does NOT mean, that parents agree with criminal facts of their children, because they also have the duty to correct and punish, sometimes sternly, if needed
And it also depends, of course, on the suspected crime
When there is possible murder involved, there is a different story, although even in that case I prefer that parents stmulate their children to go to the police themselves
The riots:
In case of the riots I think it’s pure nonsense to shop ones children to the police
Looting and burning is not acceptable, but let’s remind the fact, that the whole thing started by the police shooting of a black man, not the first time, but almost ”common” since the eighties of the former century, without proper punishment of the policemen involved
Also the social injustice is a cause to the riots
See also
Riots in England/Uprising of the unheard
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/riots-englanduprising-unheard
And besides that, the punishments for some looting were extremely hard
Will parents, who love their children, do that to them?
No, parents love means protecting the child and punish or correcting the child themselves, not to betray them to the police
Kind greetings
Astrid Essed
Human rights activist and a mother of two
Amsterdam
The Netherlands