The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 49
Parental Rights And Duties According to Common Law
Parental Rights And Duties According to Common Law.
Parental rights include parental duties and responsibilities before God and society. The common law is explicit on this point, as Blackstone and Kent assert: "A parent may, under circumstances, be indicted at common law for not supplying an infant child with necessaries."—(Chitty on Blackstone.)
page 7"During the minority of a child . . . the parent is absolutely bound to provide reasonably for his maintenance and education, and he may be sued for necessaries furnished, and schooling given, to a child under just and reasonable circumstances."—(Kent's Com., Vol. II., p. iv.; Lec. XXIX.)