The Affluenza Case Essay

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Children are influenced by their parents’ action. If the parents are not teaching his or her child what is right from wrong, then it may leave the child to experiment for themselves, like becoming involved in bad activity. If a child commits a delinquent act his or her parent should be held accountable.

The parents’ accountability may vary for different ages. For example, an 11 year old boy shot and killed an 8 year old girl when she refused to let him see her puppy. He went inside the closet and used his father 's 12 gauge shotgun to kill her. In this case, the parents should be held accountable because this shows bad parenting. The child should not have known where the gun was kept, it should have been in a more secured place. The child’s …show more content…

This case is about Ethan Couch, a sixteen year old boy who killed four people and injured 10 people and did not serve any jail time because they said he was suffering from Affluenza. Doctor Miller says that Affluenza is the reason to this crime because he was a child of privilege and his parents never said no. Ethan was driving while intoxicated and the car lost control, swerve into a ditch, swipe a car, ran over 4 people crashing into another car and both cars flipped over leaving 10 people injured. His blood content was 3 times higher the legal limit of an adult. I believe the parents should be blame. Ethan is a rich kid who was given anything he wanted from driving at age 13 to living in a ranch house by himself. Ethan wasn’t given any limitations. He has fast forward into adulthood. The night of the incident, Tonya knew that the kids in the house were drinking because Ethan told his mom and she said do not drink too much and do not drink and drive. His mother was aware that the kids were drinking, and she probably knew he was capable of drinking while intoxicated because she said“don 't drink and drive.” As a parent, she should have went over to the ranch house and bring the kids home. The Couch’s neglect Ethan because they separated themselves from him and gave him his own place. Plus they were aware of his drinking habits, Star T says, that his mom Tonya, saw them drinking alcohol and saw Ethan drunk before. It is very obvious that Couch’s parenting skills were not the best because it lead to this tragic

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