How much parental responsibility can be assumed for the actions of the child?

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How much parental responsibility can be assumed for the actions of the child?

Last February, an American mother was convicted of involuntary homicide for failing to comply with her legal duty to monitor her child’s actions. Her husband was also convicted on the same ground the following month. Their 15-year-old son, who had informed them that he had been hearing voices and hallucinating for some time, killed four of his schoolmates... with the weapon his parents had recently offered him. A few hours before the drama, the …