Well, the problem is, you can’t make someone do anything. What you can do is make help more readily available. For example, lots of times I read people advising that someone should take parenting classes. Great advice, but if that was something that I needed or wanted, I would have no idea where to go to get that. If ob/gyns, pediatricians, and the schools could work more to get good information out there, maybe parents who were completely clueless, (and who isn’t somedays) would be better equipped to do what they need to do.
Of course, this will not help those that are not clueless, but careless. As much as we hate to admit it, there are some parents who really don’t want to do anything with their kids. They’re just counting the days until their kids are 18 and they can kick them out of the house.

It would help to require anyone planning on having kids to take a class and have to pass a test. Why is it so difficult to get a driver’s license or passport in this country, but having kids requires absolutely nothing. We should make it illegal to give birth without a passing grade.

The parents of these children most likely had little discipline and control over then from the beggining. I have said it a hundred times on here, it is not our jobs as parents to be our childs best friend, it is our job to be their leader, and guide them to teach them right a wrong. Then when they become adults they will want to be our friends, because they have respect for us for having some responsibility. My uncle tried the friend method with his three children, after him and his wife got a devorce, telling my father that he could trust his 15 year old daughter to stay out all hours of the night, because she told him everything. Now his 17 year old daughter has been in jail twice, stollen 3 cars, done cocaine, smoke weed, cigarettes, and gotten more drunk than I think most 21 year olds do on their 21st birthday. She also has dropped out of school and has a 4 month old baby. His younger son has been to jail for arsen and sells weed for a living, and his youngest daughter is usually left at home to babysit her older siblings while her dad is dating. So it goes beyond just discipline, all you really have to do is pay attention to your children. If they seem intoxicated do something. Don’t allow them to stay out for days at a time. Insure they are going to school and staying there. Children are supposed to have restrictions. For their safety, and our sanity. So yes, it is the parents fault in the end for these three girls you have mentioned, because you have to ask, where was their parent?