Barbados should not criminalise parents for their children’s behaviour when the social support system for struggling families is “completely broken”, child rights advocate Dr Marsha Hinds-Myrie warned.
Pushing back sharply against a proposal by acting Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale SC to sanction negligent parents, Dr Hinds-Myrie insisted that policymakers should urgently address the gaps in early intervention and assistance that leave many parents with nowhere to turn.
She sug
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