This house Would Raise the Age of Criminal Responsibility
The age of criminal responsibility is the age at which a person can be charged with and tried for a crime. It varies between different states and countries; in North Carolina it is 6, it is 7 in most...
View ArticleThis House believes mothers should stay at home and look after their children.
In the age of apparent equality women are increasingly encouraged to ‘have it all’, balancing career, children and marriage in order to be seen as successful. Some feel this is bad for children who are...
View ArticleThis House would support international adoption
International adoption is the adoption of foreign children and their subsequent immigration into their adopted parents' home nation. With the on-going media coverage of ill-treated children in Chinese...
View ArticleThis house would make physical education compulsory
In the UK, Physical Education (PE) is compulsory in state schools until the age of 16 – that is, that sports are compulsory for as long as education is compulsory.Motion: This house would make physical...
View ArticleThis House would only teach abstinence for sex education in schools
The debate between "comprehensive sex education" (also just called "sex education") and "abstinence-only education" is long-standing in the United States, and exists in many other societies around the...
View ArticleThis House would restrict advertising aimed at children
The power that advertising, and media more generally, wields has been and will continue to be an area of debate for years to come. Advertising is largely, particularly in the western world, an...
View ArticleThis House would ban homework
Homework is a task (often called an assignment) set by teachers for students to do outside normal lessons – usually at home in the evening. Schools have been setting homework in developed countries for...
View ArticleThis House would punish parents who smoke in the presence of their children
In many countries, laws now exist which prevent people from smoking in public places, so that non-smokers can avoid breathing in secondhand smoke.[1] Those who want a law preventing parents from...
View ArticleThis House would ban smacking
In most common law countries any common assault (that is deliberate or reckless physical contact without consent) is illegal. There are however a series of exceptions to that proposition where the...
View ArticleThis House would ban the sale of violent video games/censor violent video games.
Since their inception and migration into homes during the early nineties, videogames have been about conflicts that need resolving. There are some that buck the trend, but the overarching plot in most...
View ArticleThis House Would use public funding for IVF treatment
IVF (in vitro fertilization) treatment is a medical procedure to assist infertile (or otherwise unable) couples to conceive children. The process involves fertilizing egg cells with sperm outside of...
View ArticleThis House believes that parents should be held responsible for their...
This is an idea that has been floated by some education reform advocates (mainly conservatives) who believe that the problem of childhood discipline in the classroom cannot be remedied unless parents...
View ArticleThis House believes the age of consent laws should be made more liberal...
The age of consent refers to the age at which a person’s assent to have sex is recognised as valid in the eyes of the law. Men (and sometimes women, depending upon local law) who engage in sexual...
View ArticleThis House Would sponsor children in developing countries. (Junior)
Sponsoring a child is a popular way of supporting charity work in the developing world - countries where people don’t have much money. Many charities run schemes which link a person in a more wealthy...
View ArticleThis House believes that important decisions about children’s health should...
The issue of when a child is mature enough to consent to various decisions is a complicated one and this debate focusses on just one part; those decisions that relate to their medical well-being.read more
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