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re: Utah passes 'free-range parenting' law
Posted on 3/29/18 at 10:21 am to BaddestAndvari
Posted on 3/29/18 at 10:21 am to BaddestAndvari
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allowing children to do things alone like travelling to school.
I don't understand what the law actually does. If you want to let your child walk alone to school now you can. The law surely isn't going to mandate that you are required to do that...so what exactly does this accomplish?
Posted on 3/29/18 at 10:25 am to WG_Dawg
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I don't understand what the law actually does. If you want to let your child walk alone to school now you can. The law surely isn't going to mandate that you are required to do that...so what exactly does this accomplish?
Looks like it basically protects parents from legal/criminal investigation when some overly-concerned third party freaks out about a nine-year-old walking by themselves. Yes, you're correct in that parents can let their kids walk alone now, but this prevents authorities from even looking into the matter.
I'm sure there have been lots of cases all over the country where some random person sees a kid walking by themselves, stops them and finds out their name, and then calls 911 trying to be a hero. Then authorities are obligated to look into the matter, and the parent has to explain themselves to the police. That shouldn't have to happen.
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She explained that the new bill states that it won't be considered negligent by authorities, who cannot start an investigation, if a parent lets their child walk outside alone, play without supervision or allows them to wait in the car without an adult.
This post was edited on 3/29/18 at 10:32 am
Posted on 3/29/18 at 10:26 am to WG_Dawg
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I don't understand what the law actually does. If you want to let your child walk alone to school now you can. The law surely isn't going to mandate that you are required to do that...so what exactly does this accomplish?
I agree with you to the a point, my neighborhood has kids walking around / doing things on their own all the time. But there have been a few cases where parents were actually taken to court for something as simple as letting their kid walk to a park in their neighborhood (though the charges were dropped on the one I'm thinking about... how long until these charges aren't dropped, and something like this law is needed to make sure the person isn't arrest to begin with?!).
This law goes a step ahead, and says basically: "This will never be a problem in Utah, we want kids to be kids"
Posted on 3/29/18 at 10:29 am to WG_Dawg
quote:it stops the cops from showing up to your house and charging you with child neglect because you allow your kids to go play in a park down the street alone
I don't understand what the law actually does. If you want to let your child walk alone to school now you can. The law surely isn't going to mandate that you are required to do that...so what exactly does this accomplish?
Posted on 3/29/18 at 11:33 am to WG_Dawg
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don't understand what the law actually does. If you want to let your child walk alone to school now you can. The law surely isn't going to mandate that you are required to do that...so what exactly does this accomplish?
Probably tells busy body people that aren’t the kids actual parents to get bent and mind their own damn business and not call the cops over perfectly acceptable things like kids riding their bikes more than 20 yards from their house
This post was edited on 3/29/18 at 11:36 am
Posted on 3/29/18 at 1:02 pm to WG_Dawg
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I don't understand what the law actually does.
There have been dozens of parents that have had CMS investigate them, and in some cases, bring charges or take their kids away for simply letting them roam around neighborhoods unsupervised.
This protects those families by saying children don't have to be supervised all the time.
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