I think both of you would feel a fair bit differently if you actually parented a child. Pretty much from day one when your child is born, you lose untold hours of sleep and experience anxiety when the nightmares come with your childs mortality as the central theme.
Then one day, 14 years later, your child goes to the beach with a bunch of older kids, there is alcohol present. He consumes some because he wants to fit in (happens all the time) and drowns then dies. The older kids were there supplying the b00ze, why did no one pull him out of the water?
There is such a thing as criminal negligence. I'm not sure if this is the particular case but if an older person can be deemed as the caregiver when the accident occured there is likely some legal ramifications should an accident occur.
|