Question
This is indeed a difficult decision to make. I think it is useful to examine your reasons pro and con for reporting your son's crime. It does indeed involve you legally, by way of liability and certainly ethically. More importantly, what is the message you are giving your son about what he did? Considering the later issue alone, do you really want to teach your son that you will protect him from legal consequences of his actions? I think that is a very slippery slope. The message you leave with your son by your actions will echo in his future actions. From purely a child raising point of view, the answer is clear to me. Bring your son and the signs to the police station and sit with him as he faces the consequences.
About the Expert
David Johnson
MSW, LICSW
Champlin, United States of America
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Dissociative Disorders, Anger Management, Gay Lesbian Issues, Personality Disorders, Child or Adolescent Issues, Divorce, Trauma and PTSD, Life Coaching, Psychosis, Mood Disorders, Parenting, Spirituality, Anxiety or Fears, Relationship Issues, Impulse Control Disorders, Elderly Persons Disorders, Women, Loss or Grief, Thinking Disorders, Depression, Finding Your Purpose in Life
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