The right to file a complaint
Everyone deserves a right to file a compliant. If your legal rights are violated, you must be allowed to formally file a formal complaint. It should then be read and action should be taken to stop the violation (as long as the complaint isn't baseless, frivolous, or false). This is a positive right so knowingly interfering with it should be a crime. Everyone deserves that right. If inmates, people which were proven guilty of a crime deserve this right, why don't the minors. Why aren't minors guaranteed by law to be able to file a grievance about their parents?
How is it argued against
[edit | edit source]- Kids don't know how to file one - then they won't file one. I believe at least one minor knows how to file one.
- Kids will file frivolous complaints - complaints that are obviously frivolous (needs to be defined) can be documented and left without a response.
- This law is useless - this happens with the most gross cases of abuse. Proving this would be sometimes easier than proving child abuse. [needs fixing]
- It strains the system - if you get a 100$ parking ticket, you can drag the case through the courts. If a minor is abused, why shouldn't they be allowed to do something about it. Also, don't you think inmates also abuse this right?