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Court to send parents back to school | NEWS.com.au

WESTERN Australia's Children's Court now has the power to force chronically negligent parents to attend parenting programs.

The new legislation has passed through the upper house of state parliament.

Under the law, the Children's Court can order parents who have repeatedly failed to control their children to take part in parenting programs.

This includes parents whose children repeatedly skip school, spray graffiti or engage in threatening behaviour.

Hmmm....maybe we can do something like this in our part of the world instead of putting parents in jail.