Could you shop your children to the police?

[FairyFluffbum]

After a middle aged man was attacked news year eve after saying happy new year to his neighbour he was attacked by a gang of youths.
He is in intensive care but at the moment is stable

As it stands they youths have yet to be identified and the police are asking for information.

Surely ONE parent must have a suspicion or know and is keeping quiet.

Now I've just read about the two girls putting superglue on a toilet seat for a "joke"

I think children are becoming bolder in these years as no one disciplines them anymore and if anyone else dares to, the parents have a go.

So this brings me back around.

If you found out your child had done criminal activity, would you tell the police?

I look at my two and I know they trust me more than anything in the world but I would be the first to call them. I do accept "but they are children"

As j child I never attacked an adult, robbed a shop, mugged another child or even thought about/threatened rape.

[CheerfulYank]

What hiho said. I've seen enough children turn into terrible adults because mummy and daddy always pick up the pieces.

Look at the "affluenza" teen for heaven's sake. He killed four people driving drunk and still got off because he was so badly parented he apparently didn't know right from wrong. Then he violates his parole and what does mummy do? Runs off to Mexico with him.

[CheerfulYank]

I'd shop my kids because I care about them.

[Branleuse]

who needs police anyway eh, when you can convince the population to grass up their own families?

[Atenco]

In all honesty it depends on the crime and circumstances

I've fortunately never had that problem, but I always said that if my dd turned out to be a serial murderer, I would turn her in for society's safety and then be the one visiting her everyday in prison.

[Chattymummyhere]

Depends on what they did and the reason for it...

If DD killed say an abusive husband in a snap moment... Hell no I would help her hide the body.

If dd or ds just went around randomly murdering people then I wouldn't help cover that up.

My kids are my kids and come first, my loyalty is to them before a judge or jury.

[MeAgain36]

Ds1 get in to some trouble recently. A fight in a club that he didn't start but the other guy came off worse (but wasn't seriously hurt) Usually he would walk away, we've never had any issues relating violence before but his grandad had just died and he was like a dad to him.

we didn't have to make any decisions as they were both arrested at the time it happened. It was honestly the worst 3 days of our lives though waiting to hear from the police who decided not to take it further.

It's in his contract that he can't have a criminal record, so his job, a criminal record, prison. Could all have gone due to a moment of bloody stupidity.

I always said I'd hand my dc in but if the police had been looking for him no I wouldn't have handed him in for that.

it's easy to say hypothetically what you would do but when it comes down to it, for some stupid mistake totally out of character when he was grieving, when you have your child (even though they are a young adult) breaking their heart about how stupid they've been then handing them in is easier said than done