A parents only job is love, support and guide their children no matter what. A child learns from experience and participation. As a child grows into their teenage years they must be included or they will rebel, looking for guidance elsewhere. Parents are stupid if they think they can hide a problem from their children also because children are the most inquisitive beings on the face of this planet. As teenagers the child grows to now explore the options opened to them by their parents.
If a parent ever says that they have no idea what could have attributed to their child's behavior, they are lying not only to you but to themselves. A child will always open new avenues with the information they are first presented with. A child always bases there life choices on that of their parents. Anything a parent pushes to motivate a child will motivate the child throughout every aspect of that child's life. Anything a parent allows their child to experience, the child will grow from.
If a parent does not approve of something their child is doing they only have themselves to blame. It is not the child's fault that they were opened up to a world that is incoherent and will eventually draw them to an inconsistent and doomed lifestyle. It is the parents who registered them for this mess.
Though communication has failed within many family units, and it is now even a slogan that it takes a community to raise a child, further diminishing parents responsibility it seems. It is still up to the parent to ensure their child's safety because even though the law enforcement is available they don't act until something happens and by then the damage is already done and in many cases will ensure that the damage is done only so that they're able to enforce a law.
