if your your adult kid killed someone would you help them lawyer up or turn them in?

[Anonymous]

Turn them in and seek counsel, because I would not want my child to be on the run and possibly be killed in a standoff situation. I also would not want to be charged for aiding and abetting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since this is anonymous: my children & my spouse matter more to me than anyone else (hypothetical grandchildren and direct descendants would go here as well), followed by extended family and very close friends. I would do whatever I thought would make the situation turn out the best way possible for those people. Since I have multiple kids, I have to consider the futures of all of them, so I would help the hypothetical murderer as much as I could in line with the law while still making sure the family name is harmed as little as possible. I'd say I must've misheard the confession, hire the best possible lawyer, and urge cooperation with whatever the lawyer suggested.

+ 1

[Anonymous]

Parents always think they are doing their kids a favor by protecting them. It isn't. They will either become worse people or if they have a conscience at all they will have to live the rest of their lives knowing they did not appropriately account for their actions.

[Anonymous]

I would not hire a lawyer for them, and with a fractured heart would turn them in. I would be their parent and try to find a way to support them in accepting their responsibility, but not by hiding them or trying to avert judgement. I’d also examine our life. How did I contribute to their brokenness?

[Anonymous]

Here's a timely story ... the Dad in this story helped his son hide a car full of dead bodies in a cornfield.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/22/antoine-suggs-murder-wisconsin-cornfield/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my parenting goals is to raise a kid who will only kill another person for a reason I agree with. If I succeed in that, my lips are sealed.

Bet I can guess your HHI/education level.

You are making an allusion that an affluent and/or highly educated person would refuse to support their child who murdered someone whom the family determined to be undesirable.

There are ample examples of highly educated people who have no morals whatsoever would murder just as readily as a moron. Education does not equal righteousness or positive morality.
Certainly, the bulk of murderers come from the lower classes who tend to have a lower intelligence or lower education level which partly explains their lower economic status.
Notice I said "partly": there are pages upon pages of documentation going into all the convoluted details of poverty.

We can see this with Leftist university professors such as Richard Parncutt who proposes the death penalty to "global warming deniers". Murder-by-government is no different than pulling the trigger yourself if you are using the government to achieve your goals --see the Nuremburg trials for that precedent.

I have read comments on DCUM that anti-vaxxers should die. How many on DCUM, if their child murdered a "Climate denier" or "anti-vaxx" person, would be as the OP and provide cover for their murderer child?

[Anonymous]

I would turn in and disown my child with few exceptions. If they murdered a pedophile, rapist or some other disgusting predator like that or in self defense then I would not cut them off and would assist with retaining counsel.

I'm very disappointed by a lot of responses to the OP's post.

Sometimes catching a murderer is down to someone close, like what happened in 2017 with Yingying Zhang at UIUC and the gf helped the FBI. That was the right thing to do.

I do not believe you are a good parent if you protect your child from the consequences of murdering innocent people. I'm quite liberal in general but definitely believe the death penalty has its place.

If my child did what I believe Laundrie did then I not only would feel I had failed as a parent but would consider it fair he suffer the consequences, whatever they be. What happened to Gabby Petito is unforgivable regardless of if the perpetrator is my child or not.

Obviously I do not have blind loyalty to my children/family and there is certainly a limit to what behavior I will tolerate.

[Anonymous]

I’d turn them in and assist with a good lawyer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would turn in and disown my child with few exceptions. If they murdered a pedophile, rapist or some other disgusting predator like that or in self defense then I would not cut them off and would assist with retaining counsel.

I'm very disappointed by a lot of responses to the OP's post.

Sometimes catching a murderer is down to someone close, like what happened in 2017 with Yingying Zhang at UIUC and the gf helped the FBI. That was the right thing to do.

I do not believe you are a good parent if you protect your child from the consequences of murdering innocent people. I'm quite liberal in general but definitely believe the death penalty has its place.

If my child did what I believe Laundrie did then I not only would feel I had failed as a parent but would consider it fair he suffer the consequences, whatever they be. What happened to Gabby Petito is unforgivable regardless of if the perpetrator is my child or not.

Obviously I do not have blind loyalty to my children/family and there is certainly a limit to what behavior I will tolerate.

So like if your kid was Dexter you’re all in? Can’t argue with that!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents always think they are doing their kids a favor by protecting them. It isn't. They will either become worse people or if they have a conscience at all they will have to live the rest of their lives knowing they did not appropriately account for their actions.

+1

So mislead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would turn in and disown my child with few exceptions. If they murdered a pedophile, rapist or some other disgusting predator like that or in self defense then I would not cut them off and would assist with retaining counsel.

I'm very disappointed by a lot of responses to the OP's post.

Sometimes catching a murderer is down to someone close, like what happened in 2017 with Yingying Zhang at UIUC and the gf helped the FBI. That was the right thing to do.

I do not believe you are a good parent if you protect your child from the consequences of murdering innocent people. I'm quite liberal in general but definitely believe the death penalty has its place.

If my child did what I believe Laundrie did then I not only would feel I had failed as a parent but would consider it fair he suffer the consequences, whatever they be. What happened to Gabby Petito is unforgivable regardless of if the perpetrator is my child or not.

Obviously I do not have blind loyalty to my children/family and there is certainly a limit to what behavior I will tolerate.

So like if your kid was Dexter you’re all in? Can’t argue with that!!

BUT the responses are directly congruent to living in this area: "ME first!"

[Anonymous]

Depend on the crime/victim. But in a non premeditated, no torture/cruelty and stuff from nightmares…. I would help my child and NOT turn her in.

[Anonymous]

As much as I would love my kid and it would tear me apart, I would encourage them to turn themselves in with counsel. If they didn't, I'd feel obligated to turn them in. What was done is just not okay and were the tables turned, it's what I'd hope another parent would do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents always think they are doing their kids a favor by protecting them. It isn't. They will either become worse people or if they have a conscience at all they will have to live the rest of their lives knowing they did not appropriately account for their actions.

+1

So mislead.

I said this before, but these are the "my little angel can do no wrong!" parents, and frankly, they suck. Protecting your kid at all costs is BS and there is no moral highground there with your "unconditional love." Reminds me of the little psycho playground terrors with the "nice moms" who think telling your kid "no" to torturing a puppy, body slamming or bullying a peer, or being a general SH*T is ok. PARENT! These parents should be held accountable as accomplices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my parenting goals is to raise a kid who will only kill another person for a reason I agree with. If I succeed in that, my lips are sealed.

Bet I can guess your HHI/education level.

DP. I go with about $80K, high school diploma, maybe some additional courses.

ADP. $800k, stays married for the money, she has an AP who takes some of the money DH has a mistress who takes some of the money too. Democrats who talking about helping “others”.