Posted on 05/23/2018 5:28:06 AM PDT by caww
A new Utah law protects parents who allow their children to play outside unsupervised, sparking similar efforts from lawmakers in New York and Arkansas.
The Utah "free-range parenting" law, which went into effect this month, states that it doesn’t constitute neglect if a parent allows their children to do activities such as walking to school, riding their bikes or playing on a playground without adult supervision, provided that the children are “of sufficient age and maturity to avoid harm or unreasonable risk of harm.” It also says leaving a child 6 years old or older alone in a car temporarily does not constitute neglect.
Support cuts across party lines. New York Assemblyman Phil Steck, D-Schenectady, is pushing similar legislation. “When I was a child, you let your dogs and your children out after breakfast and … they had to be home for dinner. I felt I gained a lot more from just playing on the street than my children did from being in organized sports activities,” he told the Associated Press last month.
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They need a law to make basic freedoms legal?
That was standard operating procedure when I was a kid. No law should be needed for a return to normalcy.
While absolutely applauding this news, it also surely speaks volumes re our precipitous national fall.
Well socialized children and pets tend to be good children and pets!
I agree with you and support parents having this freedom.
The only difference is that when I was young and there was a mile or two to walk to school, there were a lot of other kids and pedestrians around.
Now, homeless and not much else.
Perhaps this is not the case in conservative UTAH.
They passed a law to allow kids to play outside?
Everything is forbidden: until the government specifically allows you to do a thing.
That is not good.
The very fact that this needed to be codified into law demonstrates that the lunatics are running the asylum.
Dont play in the road.
Dont go with strangers.
Dont go past (X or Y Streets)
And be home when the streets lights come on.
Is it really more complex than that these days?
It seems the law is more or less intended to get the busybodies to shut the hell up and mind their own business. If not for them, who would notice or care if there were children playing outside their house sans an adult?
In the 50s
Mom sees son walking out the door, “Where are you going?” she says.
Son,”out”
Mom,”who will you be with”?
Son,”Some kids”
Mom, “When are you coming home”?
Son, “Later”
Mom, “OK, have fun and be careful”
We traveled all over town and country. Catching minnows in streams,hiking up hills celebrating for reaching the summit,Sliding down the feed mill slides...A trip to the cattle barns, fishing at the pond....on and on and on.. We were poor kids but enjoyed every minute of being kids!
Oh I can relate to those instructions! HA! my childhood was a venture indeed when you see kids today doing nothing but feed their faces while looking at whatever screen they happen to have at hand.
Heck the town use to close down roads so we could slide down in winter months.......even the parents went down that hill it was wonderful for all!
Was such fun for kids then.......but also parents did teach them what to be careful about and were taught basic manners at home. Kids are different today.
A Democrat said something that finally makes sense to me. Way to go, Phil.
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It seems the law is more or less intended to get the busybodies to shut the hell up and mind their own business.
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And, as usual, govt goes full-retard, 180 degrees.
“Home of the Free” will only be remembered in song.
When I was a kid I had to be home when the street lights came on or until my eyes gummed shut because of hay fever.
That was my childhood, too.
We always let our kids walk alone, ride bikes or walk with the dog down the street to grandma’s house which was within “help, I’m being kidnapped!” yelling distance and grandma would call when they got there. Still, the busybody neighbors had fits.
Absolutely agree. Since I was a kid roaming around like all the other kids, the world has descended into madness. My parents had no fear or concerns, so long as I headed home when my mom stood out on the porch and rang the dinner bell. What a different world that was!
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