Posted on 01/16/2015 9:49:52 AM PST by Olog-hai
A Montgomery County couple says they’re being investigated for neglect for allowing their two children to walk home from a park by themselves.
Danielle and Alexander Meitiv say the county’s Child Protective Services began investigating them after police stopped their 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter about half-way through a mile-walk home on Dec. 20 in Silver Spring. Police say they stopped the children and drove them home after someone reported seeing them. …
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a mile is 10 city blocks..
that’s nothing.
And don’t say the world is more dangerous now, the statistics say it is actually MUCH safer now, despite an avalanche of news stories that make you believe otherwise.
Liberals in a liberal county in a liberal state getting hassled by a liberal state organization.
I’m feeling a little bit of schadenfreude.
The parents are liberals in terms of their employment themselves. The father works for the NHS and the mother is a “climate advisor”.
Maybe if we executed child molesters, it would be safe to let your children outside alone. As it is, child molesters are allowed to roam the streets and kidnap children.
Yep, mostly because we have the 24/7 "news" business devoted to making us as terrified as possible.
I tend to think it is a breakdown in critical thinking. I hope that isn't irreversible.
This is what happens when people let government do the thinking.
“Today is not like it was years ago”
It’s not? I remember being warned about strangers and such in my youth of the 1960’s. A very rough neighborhood in N Memphis. The world always was and always will be a dangerous place. Situational awareness needs to be learned early in life
When my sister was seven, she hopped a bus to NYC. When we heard about it years later, my mother told her she should have let her know she was going.
When I was almost 5 I had to walk home from kindergarten about 8 blocks. The only incident I remember was coming upon a stray dog that scared me and a lady came out of her house and walked me home.
This story doesn’t sound right. There must be more to it.
Plenty of six-year-olds wander freely in most neighborhoods nowadays - at least in this area (NJ and PA). As for the 10-year-old, if you live within a mile of school, bus service typically isn’t provided, and 3rd-graders (age 8 or so) are considered old enough to walk the mile to school alone.
Maryland is different.
“I was out camping in the woods outside of town with friends when I was 8 to 10 years old. Campfire and all.”..
Same here. The day school got out for the summer, My brother and I packed our stuff and road my horse about a mile and a half from home, setup camp next to a lake, did some fishing, stayed there for three days and nights, all right next to a major highway on the outer edge of the city. Never had any problems. People came by, complimented my brother and I on our camp and the amount of fish we had caught, cooked and ate. What ever happened to those “good old days”?
I walked to and from school 3 miles every day up n down the hill when I was a 8 yr old kid - alone with my 22 coz there was a shooting range in the school basement.
It was normal then; now the commies take over but not for long.
Is this something that’s unique to Maryland?
Yep, mostly because we have the 24/7 "news" business devoted to making us as terrified as possible.
Exactly! Violent crime is actually significantly down as compared to the "good ol' days." People are just more frightened.
If you think this is an issue that is confined to liberal areas, you’re kidding yourself.
When we were kids, all over the country, we most often walked home from school. I walked to school, alone, from my neighborhood through a wooded area and on through a different neighborhood, as a first grader. NO ONE would have thought to get negatively excited about it. Pampered kids don’t grow up as well as kids from whom more is expected.
Not at all. I found it ironic, since the stories you hear about Child Services is usually them targeting conservative/christian families.
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