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them very quickly. Allowing this type of behavior to occur in the first place can be the beginnings of a disillusioned and dysfunctional young adult in later years.

Poor parenting does carry over many negative behaviors into adulthood. Although you sometimes know that a young adult's behavior is inappropriate and deserves punishment, it is still sad when you hear the parents lamenting about their adult children's drug use or current jail conviction appearing in the local paper. The saddest part is that the parents don't really seem upset that their kids are participating in a criminal activity, they appear more concerned with the fact that their kids got caught, and that their activities are now public knowledge. Makes you kind of wonder if these parents even try to correct the mistakes now that should have been corrected a long time ago? If they might still try to instill some type of normalcy into their adult children's lives?

These kids didn't have to wind up where they are today, learning lessons in adulthood that should have been taken care of in childhood, but unfortunately they often do.

Do I believe that parents are responsible for the behavior of their adult children? In about eighty percent of the cases, definitely yes, these parents are the ones who taught their kids how to behave our society. Now society has to teach them the correct way.

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