In Australia many children commit crimes and often the police and the public do not know who to blame for their actions. These children commit crimes such as robbery, violence and theft and end up in childhood. They live as victims of their actions wondering whether to blame their children or their parents. This is a broad topic with many different views and arguments, I will only focus on three arguments that support and oppose whether or not parents should be held responsible for their children's actions. One of the biggest influences on children's actions are parents because their children look up to them, that's why parents should be responsible for their crimes. In this essay I will argue that parents are responsible for their children's crimes especially behavior, inadequate supervision, and broken family structure. Most parents do not teach their delinquent children proper discipline, manners and behavior in the first place, without creating boundaries. and the rules their children must follow at home and in public. They don't care about the kinds of risks their children take when they commit crimes like graffiti, etc. Former Victorian Police Commissioner Simon Overland states: “The increase in the number of offenders in juvenile justice systems is due to poor parenting skills” (Griffin, 2011). . This may be the result of parents giving a lot of freedom to their children without consequences for their actions. When “rarely disciplined…” children commit crimes against the law for the first time and get away with it, “… learn to push boundaries” (Griffin, 2011), because they begin to realize that what they are doing is acceptable and not face consequences for the bad behavior of... middle of paper... that neither parent has a criminal record have a very high probability of 76% for sons and more than 80% for daughters of having no criminal record penalties. Furthermore, a child born into a family in which both parents have criminal records is less likely to escape a criminal record, but more likely to have a criminal record for serious crimes (66.9% for sons and 43.8% for daughters)” (Australian Institute of Criminology, 2011, par. Parents are responsible for the crimes of their children because when both parents do not pay attention and neglect the child they end up committing crimes. Even the absence of a parent due to he increase in divorce rates contributes to children committing crimes, because they can feel the support of both parents. This suggests that children will have difficulty adapting to the different rules and boundaries imposed by their parents.