The tragedy of Columbine is a tragedy that people try and analyze and understand the motives of the perpetrators’ actions. Many people, including family of the victims in the shooting, believe that the parents of the shooters are responsible. However, these people must realize that there comes a time where parents lose control and power of their children. This is not the parents’ fault, this is just how life and growing up works. The only people to be at blame for this tragedy is the shooters.
According to Dave Cullen’s novel Columbine, the shooters, Dylan and Eric, seemed to have a solid relationship with their parents. As far as the public knows, neither of them were abused or had any trauma due to their relationship with their parents. This …show more content…
In Cullen’s novel, it is evident that both the shooters dealt with some sort of mental illness, whether it be depression or something more serious. According to the timeline in Columbine, Eric particularly deals with his mental illness by taking medication and seeing a psychiatrist. (Cullen 372). Mental illness is a chemical imbalance which is obviously not the parents’ fault and the parents’ should not be held responsible.
Parents obviously do have a tremendous impact on the way their children turn out but when it comes to something as serious and tragic as a mass school shooting, the parents should not have to deal with guilt. It’s not as if the parents bought Eric and Dylan the guns or helped them with their plans or even excessively encouraged violence on other human beings. Due to this, it seems horrendous that some would blame the shooters’ parents for the tragedy.
Many people who believe that it’s the parent’s fault would blame the fact that they raised their child wrong or the way the parent is incorrect. I think this viewpoint is dreadfully incorrect because a parent could raise two of their children the exact same way but the two children could both end up completely different. The idea that the way a parent raises their children drastically controls the child later on in life seems completely
According to Dave Cullen’s novel Columbine, the shooters, Dylan and Eric, seemed to have a solid relationship with their parents. As far as the public knows, neither of them were abused or had any trauma due to their relationship with their parents. This …show more content…
In Cullen’s novel, it is evident that both the shooters dealt with some sort of mental illness, whether it be depression or something more serious. According to the timeline in Columbine, Eric particularly deals with his mental illness by taking medication and seeing a psychiatrist. (Cullen 372). Mental illness is a chemical imbalance which is obviously not the parents’ fault and the parents’ should not be held responsible.
Parents obviously do have a tremendous impact on the way their children turn out but when it comes to something as serious and tragic as a mass school shooting, the parents should not have to deal with guilt. It’s not as if the parents bought Eric and Dylan the guns or helped them with their plans or even excessively encouraged violence on other human beings. Due to this, it seems horrendous that some would blame the shooters’ parents for the tragedy.
Many people who believe that it’s the parent’s fault would blame the fact that they raised their child wrong or the way the parent is incorrect. I think this viewpoint is dreadfully incorrect because a parent could raise two of their children the exact same way but the two children could both end up completely different. The idea that the way a parent raises their children drastically controls the child later on in life seems completely