[Thank You Rush]

I would have thought these parents had learned something from the episode in December but I guess they are slow learners. IMO they simply do not want to be bothered supervising any of their kid’s activities so therefore, try to justify letting them play in parks unsupervised.

“Child Protective Services has succeeded in making me terrified of letting my children out,” she said. “Nothing that has happened so far has convinced me that children don’t need independence and freedom, except that they’ll be harassed by police and CPS.”

I guess the mother at least is content to wait until SOMETHING DOES HAPPEN before she can be bothered to pay attention. Great lesson she’s teaching her kids. Looks like the father doesn’t have much say in anything!

[FlJoePa]

What’s wrong with a 10 year old and a 6 year old playing in a park and being told to walk home by 6pm for dinner?

Why is it anyone’s business but the parents?

[JRandomFreeper]

What is the magic age that children are allowed to run around by themselves? Or watch a younger sibling?

You sound like a helicopter parent that thinks the State has rights over children.

/johnny

[Vendome]

Yer messed up in the melon...

[wintertime]

How old are you?

Kids ran wild when I grew up in the 50s and 60s. The rule: Come home at 6 p.m. or when the streetlights come one ( which ever is earlier).

[clee1]

You are obviously the type of effeminate pansy that has ruined this once Great Nation. A conservative? I doubt it...

Sad.

[Red Badger]

These kids are white. Would there be as much controversy if they were black?.........

[trebb]

Get out much? Does the thought of passing someone on the street scare you into wet pants? You may be on the wrong site.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

I used to ride my bicycle all over when I was 10. 4-5 miles from home and back. It was my way to commute to my grandparents place 3 miles away. That was no big deal; and I'm not a geezer, we aren't talking back in the 60’s here. I see kids about this age roaming around in my neighborhood fairly regularly.

To those who protest giving kids this kind of freedom I suggest you go watch Old Yeller and the Adventures of Huck Finn and call me in the morning. Ask yourself will this country ever produce another Patrick McManus if we don't have some free range kids.

[CSM]

By the age of 14, George Washington was wandering the woods alone to perform surveying duties. In our new day, we don’t even let children play in the park, or walk home at the age of 10!

Crime rates are at an all time low now. This smothering of children is doing more harm than good. We are now a society filled with wimps that can’t even stand to hear any opinions that make them feel uncomfortable.

Welcome to “The Brave New World!” Take your soma and succomb to the state.