re: When/How do we start punishing parents for disasterous parenting?

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What are you proposing?

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for many years i've proposed parents losing social welfare benefits if their child is a truant or disruptive in school

same could apply to all the social ills (criminal activity, drug usage, obesity, etc)

then the question becomes what risky behavior/bad decision making should be included

*ETA: my ultimate solution is the elimination of the nanny state, but this is a step towards that