Posted on 10/11/2021 9:58:49 AM PDT by george76
Close to half of Gen X kids went home to an empty home/Apt while the one, or both, parent worked. (My than half of those I knew)
I don’t know, so someone tell me. Midland is pretty safe, isn’t it? Other than the oil field dregs which pass through.
I really never knew an empty house growing up as a late baby boomer.
But this is ridiculous. Mature 14-year-olds can babysit.
This happened in Texas. There seems to be no escape from this sort of madness.
My grandad at nine would wander all over NYC, take the subway all alone. Nobody bothered him. Single mom worked all day, no dad.
Good news, bad news, really good news, really bad news. ....
Thin blue line indeed. We no longer have police, just overpaid prison guards and kapos.
Yep, this is ridiculous. Must be no real crime there, or they’re harassing the mother for a different reason.
I’m being bitter and guessing bully just to bully.
Where are the criminal charges against these cops? Start with kidnapping.
At 14 I was pretty much on my own, emancipated at 15. Didn’t read the article, but seems she has a point.
Power trippers exist at every level of government. CPS is pretty bad in a lot of places.
When CPS A voice of reason you know you’re in trouble.
Something doesn’t pass the smell test here on the police side of things. Productive parents and productive children don’t deserve this....what was going on with the police?
Had they said bad things about the School Board or something?
I seem to remember 12 year old girls being trusted to babysit neighbors kids
Oof...my brother, an oil field WORKER, just passed through Midland not too long ago. Good guy, my brother. Works 80+ hours a week to provide for his family of 8, even flying from state to state, wherever he is needed, just to work. He'd be fascinated to hear he is an oil field "dreg" just passing through. Come to think of it, I'd kinda like to see someone tell that to him personally. Lol.
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In 1901 my great grandfather escape from a Catholic orphanage run by pedo priests in Wisconsin when he was 12 and he walked all the way to eastern North Dakota where he eventually became a farmer. My dad grew up on a farm and he drove gravel trucks to make deliveries at 11 years old and he didn't need a driver's license. When I was in grade school in Montana I woukd walk through the middle of a town of 4,000 people carrying a rifle on my shoulder on my way to the woods to target practice and nobody would give me a second look. When I was in high school in the 80s it was common for the pick ups of the students to have rifles in gun racks on school property and nobody cared. My friends and I were also allowed to camp in the woods overnight unsupervised when we were 10.
The drive to infantilize Americans is part of the plot to destroy the Republic by turning us into sheep ready for the fleecing and the slaughter.
Bankruptcy for both these cops. Then file Federal Civil Rights charges criminally.
Broke and in prison is too good for these jerks.
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Based on what?
I was 12 and babysitting my 5 younger siblings!
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