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?
I second your sentiment.
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.
Becuase if they are not under supervision, The Childcatcher may grab them.
40-50 years ago, this was absolutely normal and expected behavior. And some studies have shown that crimes against children have actually gone down on a per-person basis. But technology and information sharing has gone up, magnifying it. There are also twice as many people in the US (or even more) than when I was growing up. So, twice as many crimes would be an identical crime rate.
I assure you, my parents would definitely be in prison and I would have grown up in a foster home under these PC conditions. How do children learn to grow up? Anecdotal evidence shows that, basically, they don’t.