How Responsible Are Parents for Their Adult Children's Behavior?

About this sermon

http://www.catholic.com Fr. Vincent Serpa answers a caller who wants to know whether parents may be accountable in some way for their grown child's illicit behavior if they don't make a certain effort to try to stop them. Born in Hayward, California, a suburb of San Francisco, Fr. Vincent Serpa, attended Bishop O’Dowd High School and the University of San Francisco, and entered the Dominican Novitiate for the U.S. western province of the Dominican Order. Ordained in 1968, he spent three years doing radio work in San Francisco while still in school. Since then he has served in Dominican parishes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon. From 1992 to 2000 he served as novice master in Oakland, California. In September of that year he joined the staff at Catholic Answers as chaplain and staff apologist. He particularly enjoys answering questions on the "Ask an Apologist" forum and producing his daily “Catholic Answers Minute.”

Topics

• Parenting