Gloriagee:
No, except they failed while rearing the kids.

Zurex:
That's only for computers, God gave us the "Will Power" a child can or is liable to choose his/her path

BakersWorld:
Once a child is a certain age whether the parents raised him or her well or not, the child has a choice of which way to go. As they say. You can lead a donky to the river but you cant force the donkey to drink. So no, parents should not be held accountable for their adult children.

Any child above 18 is totally responsible for his or her own actions.

I know people who raised their kids properly, but they grew and transformed into something that's entirely different from what their parents envisioned. I can't blame their parents. They gave it their best. The blame is 100% on the so called child.

The parents cannot come and kill themselves.

The only time anyone can apportion any blame to the parents is when they didn't raise the child well in the first place. Like, encouraging the kids to bully others. Encouraging petty stealing, etc.

greatgod2012:
Input determines output!

Sonnobax15:

Yes... Because many adults wey dey misbehave na as a result of the fact that the parents actually failed to impact good behaviors on dem when dem dey young........In some cases self,you go see where pikin go do bad thing,him papa go para to the extent of say he wor beat am,but the mama go stand her ground say make the papa no touch her pikin

Ndipe:
It's very embarrassing for any law abiding parent to have a wayward child out of fear that their good name would be dragged in the mud by their actions. Back in Nigeria, the adult son of a high ranking church official was suspected of breaking into my alma mata's chapel and looting items, much to the consternation of my relatives, who wondered breathlessly, "What of his parents"? I simply brushed his involvement aside because of his notorious reputation on campus. It got so worse that according to one of my school mates, his father had threatened to disown him, much to his wife's chagrin (the guy's mom) who cried. Not long ago, a prominent man's daughter recently got a divorce and one of my friends said something to the effect that since her father holds a prominent position in the Church, then perhaps, he ought to have done something (I have forgotten exactly how he paraphrased it, but he sort of held her father accountable particularly since the girl gave birth while she was still a teenager. I disagreed with him.

And my question is this: Should parents be held accountable for the bad actions of their adult children?