Parents should be legally responsible for their child's actions.

Weak responsibility assigned to minors for their actions leads to multiple bad outcomes which are real and visible:

1. While it is true that some notions of responsibility are developing in young age, it doesnt make children inherently less intelligent - and they are capable of recognizing that they are incentivized to act with less legal oversight (simply said, they can do bad things and not be responsible for those).

2. Criminal organizations recognize this responsibility/enforcement gap and exploit minors to commit crimes or shift the blame to minors.

3. The current legal standard incentivized 'irresponsible parenting' - parental responsibility, even if it exists on the state level, is capped to ridiculously low amounts - $1,000-$25,000. For some specific cases, there's 'family purpose doctrine' that applies, for example, to the damage caused by using a family car, for example (and here damage assessment can be high, in tens of thousands or even millions).

We need to flip the standard - the parents need to be assumed responsible for child's actions unless legal exceptions can be claimed/proven by the parents/guardians (estranged children, accident, etc.).