To discipline parents who refuse to submit. Fortunately, CPS and Police thugs have unlimited power to enforce their whims with violence and oppression.
Posted on 04/14/2015 5:24:00 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
The Meitivs continued allowing their children some independence until Sunday, when the couple dropped the kids off at a park so they could play after a six-hour drive back from upstate New York, telling them to be home by 6 p.m.
Danielle Meitiv said she and her husband began worrying when the kids weren't home by 6:30, but that Child Protective Services didn't call them until 8 p.m. to say the children were in their custody.
Police had picked them up on the walk home after another concerned citizen called.
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You are obviously the type of effeminate pansy that has ruined this once Great Nation. A conservative? I doubt it...
Sad.
I had a Mayberry RFD lifestyle growing up. And that was in the late Sixties and early Seventies. My buddies and I road our bikes everywhere, walked or road bikes to our favorite fishing holes, played sandlot baseball, etc and, the horror, built stuff with Dad and went fishing with Dad.
Yet, there are those who claim that Mayberry RFD is fiction and never really existed.
I dare say that lifestyle still exists in a lot of flyover country.
VERY well said. A Conservative? Nope, not even close.
This family is being harassed.
In the same state, living in a far less ritzy area, my son and his friends went all over the neighborhood and I never saw him until dinner time. I’m pretty sure that was happening as soon as he learned how to open the front door and get out.
Did I freak? No. Did the neighbors freak? No.
He was raised “free range” just like I and everyone I know was.
What is with this attitude that you have to watch kids 24 hours per day? What happens to kids when they are constantly watched? They’ll grow up unable to leave their parents’ sides, because they’ll be too afraid!
I guess it is a mile from the house. I am not for CPS getting involved but a mile to and a mile from is not exactly neighborhood. In today’s world who knows who could grab them and do unmentionables. I certainly wouldn’t let me kids out by themselves that far away. Heck even my kids all teens but one must stay in the immediate neighborhood which consists of a circle of homes.
You know as well as I that if CPS gets wind of such a thing, they’ll get involved, in order to justify their existence. No one every slaps down government officials for stepping outside their boundaries or for lack of good commonsense judgment.
Nothing like objective journalism.
Silver Spring in places is a little questionable, but I still doubt it is as horrid as some have made it. I’d be most concerned about traffic.
Silver Spring is an expensive neighborhood in an expensive state.
This family is being harassed, pure and simple.
The horrible irony is that the MD state legislature just passed a bill to try to prevent CPS from returning kids to violently abusive parents. The law is named after a 2 year old who was removed from foster care and returned to her parents who then beat her to death. CPS can't keep kids out of abusive homes, but they sure have time to harass parents who are letting their kids learn independence.
It does in my neighborhood, to some extent. We have a playground, woods, fields, a stream, and lots of sidewalks. One difference from my childhood is that children can't walk to a store safely, the way my brother and I could where we lived in the 70s. It's a couple of miles to the nearest shopping, with no sidewalks.
We've had some interaction with the Sheriff's department when the boys were out on their own, but one young deputy looked very sheepish when I asked, "Didn't your mom send you out to play while she was cleaning?" "Yes, Ma'am." It wasn't his fault my son told the "concerned" neighbor that his parents weren't home ...
To discipline parents who refuse to submit. Fortunately, CPS and Police thugs have unlimited power to enforce their whims with violence and oppression.
Actually, people tend to look at the past with rose-colored glasses. The world never was safe; 50 years ago, kids were being kidnapped and murdered just as they are today. But then and now, they are rare events. You teach your kids to be careful. Teach them to stay away from strangers. You can never make them 100% safe.
In the 1960s, I was running around the neighborhood alone by the age of 4. On three separate occasions, someone tried to kidnap me (I don't know how I got so lucky), but I knew to stay away from strangers. And when I got old enough to be a mom, I let my kid run around the neighborhood, just as I did.
It's up to those parents, and they have information that you do not have.
/johnny
Summer vacations and other non-school periods were a lot more loose and I remember a BUNCH of things that shouldn't have happened (no one got killed)
I realize that the do-gooders in this story are sincerely interested in the welfare of the kids, but unless physical child abuse is involved.....calm down.
grew up on an island off the coast of Maine - miles of roaming around with no chance of escape, save the ferry boat.
of course, the moms grew a bit concerned when we learned to use boats, and got our own outboards, but then the circle of where are they probability only increased to about 25 miles diameter.
by then we learned to lobster anyway, so we had better things to do.
I certainly know which one I can actually do, and don't fool myself that I can make the world safe for children.
I like the way you were raised. It helped make you a responsible adult.
/johnny
Becuase if they are not under supervision, The Childcatcher may grab them.
When I was in 4-5th grade, living in Milwaukee, my parents had NO IDEA of where I was when I was out "playing"...sometimes, I know, they would not have approved, but the vast majority of times, we were in the neighborhood, under the supervision of another kid's mother, and just playing.
when the street lights came on it was be in the house time.
Summer vacations and other non-school periods were a lot more loose and I remember a BUNCH of things that shouldn't have happened (no one got killed)
I realize that the do-gooders in this story are sincerely interested in the welfare of the kids, but unless physical child abuse is involved.....calm down.
Thank you.
It is my firm opinion that being over protective and not allowing the children to learn independence and responsibility leads to them becoming adults who have no common sense. They really think the world should be perfectly safe, and are willing to sue if it isn't.
55....!!
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