So be honest; would you turn your child over to the police if he'd/she'd commited a crime?

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I think a similar thread has been done about the student who has been jailed for throwing a fire extinguisher off a roof during a student [protest. WWWYD?

no to everything bar rape, paedophilia

I haven't got any children, but I would turn in DH, or a fmaily member.

Knitted, if you DC murdered someone that would be ok then. Shocked seriously Shocked. Hope you don?t live anywhere near me.
Reading the replies from the people that would not report there DC might tell the country what?s wrong with it.

Fortunately the vast majority on here would tell the police. The ones who wouldn't - well, there's always a tiny minority whose morals and values would always be lacking. I just hope they never find themselves on the receiving end of the crimes they wouldn't report - although perhaps 'hope' is too strong a word.

I would. I haven't got children yet but I would have to do something.

I did to my brothers actually.

One brother was smoking weed, the other used to drink drive (and more than once a week).

My parents are quite leniant, and a bit, boys will be boys attitude.

My brother then started running drugs for a friend (which my parents dont know).

So I went to the local police station told them about my brother and how he was delivering drugs. Said they would look out for his car... they pulled him over a few weeks later, gave him a verbal warning as it was his first offence and had small amount of weed on him. Scared the shit out of him and he's stopped delivering them for his friend.

And the other brother was getting worse with his drinking and driving.

2 friends of mine were killed (one paralysed from the chest down) by a drink driver when we were 15 (He mounted the pavement, mowed them down, and pinned one friend to a wall). If I wasn't staying with my Auntie I would have been with them.

The other brother totaled his car (sober) so now doesn't have a car to drink drive in. But I have pointed him out to police when i've seen him in town leathered and given them his registration number.

If you know someone has done something wrong, and you dont do anything you are just as bad as them.

Slightly different from some of the painful stories on here.

I was staying with a friend and one of the DCs (aged 5 or 6) rang 999. The police came round and asked if we had any children who might have done it, and to tell them not to do it again.

We asked them if they would talk directly to the children. They did, very nicely. We got a confession, 4 contrite boys and it has not happened again!

Burglary is horiffic

My sister, has 4 DCs, last year her and her working husband, saved long and hard for their first ever holiday abroad

One day about 6 weeks before the holiday, a football got kicked through the front window, it was night time, so sisters DH, did his best to patch it up with board etc, until the morning

Next morning, sister woke up to find her DCs xmas consoles missing from the lounge,which they had recieved for xmas, 3 weeks before, also a box was missing containing £1000 in euros, and all their passports

Passports all had to be replaced [she had considered cancelling holiday, as money had been taken, and they had did not have enough to quick fast there replacement passports, which were £98 each, plus the spending money]

Thankfully we all gave her money, and she went

I remember her crying at the thought someone had been in her home in middle of the night while DCs where sleeping. She was so upset, mainly at the thought of, if one of the DCs had woken in the night, while burglar was still there, what harm would he have caused DC, even if not physical, mentally

Burglary wiped all the get and go from my Sister, she was distraught. She stayed with family for months, not wanting to return home, she did eventually.

And burglar was never caught, bastards

I WOULD shop DCs for serious offences [would have to be sure it was them though]

Shoplifting things like that, I would phone a police officer and ask him to come out and talk, give DC journey in police car, 10 mins in cells, as a warning to what this behaviour leads too

welshbyrd -the police don't generally do that anymore. They have very little discretion and cannot imprison someone, even for 10 minutes to "teach them a lesson". Shame though

Agreed its a dam shame

DD stole a kinder egg when she was about 7, I escorted her back to the shop, returned it, and made her apologies.DD was horrified.

allhaildaddypig I love my DS unconditionally. I would love him despite what he had done. Doesn't mean I would let him get away with it. In fact I'd probably question where I went wrong as a parent.

I think I would encourage him to own up and turn himself in. He's only 6 atm but even now I'm reinforcing its best to tell the truth, face the consequences and move on rather than lie and it be a whole lot worse when the truth outs.

That's awful, Welshbyrd . I really can't understand why anyone would 'protect' their children, knowing the devastation that burglary causes

I have when my 13 Yr DS1 got caught shoplifting I phoned them up and asked them to come and speak to him, they did, he shat himself and will never ever and I would again :D

He will never do it again sorry! I would do the same with any of my other children.