[Politicalkiddo]

Are there laws against this? If so, they need to be abolished.

[Boogieman]

“Are there laws against this?”

Not specifically. They could try to charge the parents with neglect or endangerment or something like that, but it would probably be a tough case to prove in court, since there was no actual harm that befell the children.

[cuban leaf]

Are there laws against this? If so, they need to be abolished.

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I actually got on the air on 970 radio this morning (Louisville) to talk about this. One of the things I brought up was the analogy of driving on roads with no speed limit signs and a cop pulls you over because “he feels you were going too fast.”

i.e. if they are going to quantify this, fine, but otherwise, short of attacking your child with a baseball bat, they are treading on thin legal ice arguing you are doing anything wrong.

And the rub is that they CAN’T quantify it, for two reasons:
1. It would need to be massively complicated - kinda like obamacare.
2. It would look ridiculous, both because it would be so overbearing on the rights of parents and because it would be so incredibly complex.

So they find people “guilty of unsubstantiated child neglect.” Can you imagine being found guilty of “unsubstantiated burglary”. Call my crazy, but if it is unsubstantiated, you are not guilty of anything!

They are TRYING to make the laws squishy. They want the “letter of the law” to be as rigid as the “spirit of the law”, i.e. up to their own internal definition.