What punishment should be for the parents who do not care for their children?

Hmm.. This is hard, it will probably help to gather the parents for a meeting and address them one by one on what is happening to their child. To those who really need some kind of punishment maybe create a seminar about parenting that they have to attend every saturday or sunday.

As a teacher, I fully understand your preocupation. This is an issue that many teachers ponder over constantly. Why aren't parents more involved with their child's education? What can be done to get them to realize the importance of their involvement? How can we get them involved? Sometimes, teachers reach such levels of frustration that we, indeed, wish for some type of punishment for these irresponsible parents. But, if we think about the problem objectively, we come to realize that the problem as well as a viable solution are not so simple. First of all this is a problem that is occuring worlwide and not just a local problem. Secondly, it happens with most frequency at lower socio-economic levels, which means that these parents probably have little education themselves and were never taught the importance of an education to succeed as adults. Thirdly, we must not place the whole blame on the parents. Children as well as teens and older students must share the responsibility for their own education and future success. And finally, what are we doing in our schools and in our classrooms to get the child to develop some degree of interest in his or her own education? These are some of the things that we must think about when we come up with parent's lack of involvement. But if you still want the suggestion of some type of punishment here is one from my school: If a student is failing in his studies and has a record of bad behavior and low achievement, the parents are given repeated warnings to take some type of measure to help the child improve. If the parents do not do so, after innumerous teacher-parent conferences, the school calls the Department of Social Welfare and they put a stop to the family's welfare checks. This is a practice that I do not espouse. In the end, the one who really suffers is the child.

That is a hard one because why is that the parent not doing what they should? I have found some parents that get so over whelmed that they just basically let the child do what they want to do because it is easier. Some parents may be going through depression which makes it really hard to raise a child when you can't seem to help yourself. I have seen some parents that just weren't taught how to be a parent so they are lost. I guess the first thing would be to find out why the parent isn't parenting the child. I really don't think there are too many out there that don't want to do the right thing by their child. I find that most are just lost and need help. Do I think they should be punished for not knowing how? No. Do I think those that are into illegal activity around children should be punished you bet. It is a good thing I am not in the court system because I think my punishment for that would be rather harsh. I just think that for the other parents that people need to stop and help them. If the parent isn't raising a child that old saying it takes a village to raise a child needs to come into play. I have a few children that have learned their manners and behaviors from me because if they want to spend time here it is something that I demand they learn. They seem to be ok with it because they want to learn and I have found more and more of their parents end up calling me asking me advice on things. So I say lets step up and be that village for children.

You know I see the same thing day after day. I have seen counselors have to go to parents house and get them to come to school and take care of things with there children. If you don't want to take responsibilty for children then don't have them. To answer your question I just don't know what we can do.