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Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town

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Re: Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town

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Post by a_t48 »

rendx wrote: post #11
a_t48 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please, we drill into kids heads to not get into cars with strangers.

"When America’s missing children are featured in popular culture, it is usually the cases of stereotypical kidnappings, which happen to be very rare. […] The third NISMART study found that approximately 105 stereotypical kidnappings occur every year in the United States (Wolak et al. 2016). That is still 105 too many. The general public may estimate a much higher number of this type of case, based on how often they a…

Regardless of the danger or not of getting in a strangers car (and in comparison to getting into a known person's car), children are taught to not do it.

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Post by metalman »

my mom was taken into "adult protection custody" , for jwalking, this is happening now, and she is held in the hospital in bridgewater ns, on.the locked ward and has now had her cell phone taken for obsessivly calling and trying to be released she does have alzhiemrs but canadas constituion specifies that people are allowed to take there own risks

held incomunicado for her own saftey I got banned from the hospital grounds for "acting up", no threats or foul language

the only reason trump got voted in, is because you have to bring your own pen to write in putin and nobody thought of that in time

Re: Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town

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Post by samatman »

eitally wrote: post #20
3pt14159 wrote: post #8

When I was five years old I would walk along a path and take a bridge across a river to visit my friend to play board games. By the time I was nine I was bicycling forty-five minutes to school on a 80 km/h road. The level of paranoia that's infected people around keeping kids near their parents is insane.

Yes, but. For all of the happy survivor stories like yours (and mine), the reality is that the rate of child accidental deaths has steadily decreases over the past few decades as parents (and society) became more protective. That isn't to say I agree with over-parenting and eliminating independence -- I don't -- but there needs to be rationality applied as well as personal values.

I expect we would discover that almost all of that is improvements in car safety though.

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Post by SunlitCat »

zaptheimpaler wrote: post #16

There's something extremely sick about the modern attitudes to children in the US (and maybe elsewhere). These people are fucking crazy. They can't imagine a world where children actually exist out in the real world and live their life like every other country instead of only in supervised jail schools. Anything approaching affection or concern for other children is seen with suspicion as if its pedophilia. Everyone…

And (to complete that picture) as soon as they turn 18, they get the boot to the street to fend for themselves!

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Post by plagiarist »

> A few days later, DFCS presented Patterson with a "safety plan" for her to sign. It would require her to delegate a "safety person" to be a "knowing participant and guardian" and watch over the children whenever she leaves home. The plan would also require Patterson to download an app onto her son's phone allowing for his location to be monitored.

Monitored by whom? This is insane.

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Post by nickff »

beaviskhan wrote: post #15

The Venn diagram of people who think it's ok to treat parents like this and people who vote "for liberty" is a circle.

Could you please explain why you believe this to be the case? One of the major advocates of 'free-range parenting' (and who allowed her child to ride the New York Subway unaccompanied) is a frequent contributor to a leading libertarian magazine (Reason). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenore_Skenazy

Re: Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town

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Post by INTPenis »

Good old USA of course. There was another body cam footage of an eldery woman who was arrested for merely walking along the road.

I don't blame anyone in the story, this is yet another symptom of the US sprawl, car centric culture, and capitalism that leaves people desperate without any safety net.

Take care of people's basic needs and you might see crime drop.

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