re: Free Range Children Taken Into Custody For Playing in Park Alone

I thought it said free range chickens

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i`m an old guy but i was expected to baby sit my 6 and 4 yr old younger siblings by the age of 10 now we consider 10 yr olds little more than babies.

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Exactly. It's not really all that crazy for a 10 yr old to watch a 6 yr old for a small period of time.
I definitely agree the cops shouldn't have taken the kids. They lied and told the kids they were taking them home and then brought them to the station where CPS was called. They never called the parents either.

Cops and CPS officers should be arrested for kidnapping IMO

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I roamed where I wanted when I was a kid as long as I was in by dark. I would never let my kids go like that.

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Why not? Did something bad happen to you? I just don't understand this statement. You went all over as a kid but no way you'd let your kids do that. Unless you were kidnapped, molested etc, I don't see why you wouldn't let your kids have a little freedom.

I know that in LA it is against the law to leave a child in the car unattended to walk into the store.
I think until they are older than 12.

There are probably rules ab free range children too.
Break the law, deal with the consequences.

Sir.

Pimp Jr is 14 now and raised a "free range" kid. I called him a 70's kid. It drove the other parents crazy. Which pleased the hell out of me.

I'm surprised CPS took them. I've heard stories of children living in actual abusive households, but either it isn't deemed "bad enough" or there is no hard proof, so CPS leaves them.

My sister's kids are "free range" which is a stupid freaking term

She leaves them home alone all the time when she runs to the grocery, store etc. They go to the neighborhood park with each other and are even allowed to go by themselves to go get snowballs at the snowball stand a little over a mile away. They are 10 & 12 now, but they've had these freedoms since the oldest was 8. They don't get to roam too much with other friends b/c most of them aren't allowed anywhere without parental supervision. Can you imagine 12 yr old boys who aren't allowed anywhere alone?
Kids these days don't even go to birthday parties by themselves anymore. The parent or both parents go too. It's insane how retarded parents are these days.

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Free Range Chicken taken Into Custody For Playing in Park Alone

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I wouldn't let my kids do it these days. I know all the stats saying that doesn't make sense, but I firmly believe that part of the reason the stats are down is that everybody is overprotective now.
Also, back in the day those 2 kids might have been two of a whole bunch of kids at the park alone. Nowadays they stick out like a sore thumb because nobody lets their kids do that anymore.