I believe at a certain age of the child's life, that they're going to want to make their own mistakes to fit in with a crowd to find a sense of belonging. Parents should not be held responsible for their child's after a certain age. Between the ages of newborn and 10 years old then the parents should be responsible because, between those ages its crucial for your child to know the difference between right and wrong. Any ages after that the child knows or should know. They know exactly what they are doing. They should be charged with their crimes as if the were an adult. Seriously and all you that are agreeing aren't looking at the bad part of this. If you getting fined for something your child did when they are legally old enough to get a job and don't have one you are losing out on money and your child is taking advantage of that while you still paying of those fines. Think about this before you make assumptions I would really like to sit down and talk to the dumb government officials in this messed up country to tell them that there's a better way. There way is majorly flawed and there's a greater one.