Posted on 04/14/2015 11:22:57 AM PDT by drewh
I played Little League in another town until 8-9 p.m., 2-3 days a week.
I’d get out of school, change into my uniform and get on a bus to ride to the other town for the game.
Then, after the game, rode a bus to my home town and then walked the last one or so miles home...in the dark, by myself.
Nothing to it really, just what we were used to doing.
This is one reason many people don’t want large families - because it is hard to chaperone kids for ten years like whoever is reporting this family thinks should be.
I agree.
The irony is that while the odds are very much against your child being snatched by some degenerate, the odds are actually rather high that your child will be snatched by Social Services.
If you go outside the norm in child-rearing, the kidnappers will show up with paperwork signed by a judge.
And once again, the “cure” is worse than the “disease”.
You don’t; have to tell me about child services as I was raised in foster homes and the street so know about tem first hand and how they left me in places where violence was the normal and you fought with drunks in those houses at aged 9 to wen you left.
As for busy body well what time did they see the kid the first time? Do you know because I would be worried to see a 6 year old by themselves in a park at night with no parents about and do the parents just drop them off while they go out to dinner and can’t be bothered with their own kids.?
Too many questions before I pass judgment.
Kids, even little kids, used to be dropped off at the movies, alone, for an afternoon, to sit through two movies, coming attractions, cartoons, and a short on Saturdays. And sometimes I was forces to take my younger sibling with me, when we were around the same ages as these kids in the article.
Actually not far from me there was a kid who was taken and no I would not let them out at aged 6 by themselves after dark at a park where I can’t see them.
Hell I don’t even let two of my kids leave this street and they are much older than 6 and they do not certainly stay out after dark.
Parents should be parents and know where their 6 years old kid is at all times.
If this was a kid in the ghetto and then was killed by a gang banger by accident would you still be saying parents need to relax or saying where were the parents?
California has been run by fascists for 20 years, Maryland and Connecticut for only 5 or so.
However, Molloy and O’Malley both have strong passion for fascist control.
I don't know anything about the neighborhood this is happening, but obviously, the parents consider it to be "safe"; or did, before they were harassed.
Are there safe neighborhoods in DC?
Seems I was a "Free-Range" kid and never knew it!
Now the family has CPS up their ass, checking if the house is safe from guns.
No....it’s Maryland !
Very encouraging to see people from a liberal hotbed like San Jose take offense to this behavior from CPS.
That’s what I mean, there are too many unanswered questions before we pass judgment.
years ago a bomb went off in Atlanta and everyone said it was a certain Mr Richard Jewel, no evidence or anything and I thought there was something more to this and there was but I took a lot of crap for peaking out.
The media will always run the narrative but in most cases later the factual truth will come out, until then I won’t pass judgment.
peaking , edit speaking
Hells bells, I was riding for miles up and down alleys with my buddie for miles when we were seven and at the same age I was walking six or seven blocks to and from school everyday. This is just more “It takes a village idiot thinking”, I wonder how these moron cops were raised, probably breastfed, diapered and taken everywhere in a baby carriage until they were in high school!
HUH what on earth does this have to do with how the cops responded when it was neighbors who called and child services who request the cops to go out there?
"Be home before sunset, be careful!"
Not joking in the slightest.. We used to sell the skins at the local flea market and cook up the meat with Dad; now mind you, we were all 13 or 14 at the time.
After breakfast, I was sent outside and was not expected back until lunch and dinner. If I came back any time between then, my parents would ask me what was wrong. If I said nothing, they would send me back outside.
OTOH, from what we know about this family and what's going on in that part of Maryland, it appears pretty straight forward.
Today's parents fall into a number of different categories; the worst are the "helicopter" parents! There are a lot of people who infantalize their children, today, who remain "children" well into their early 30s.
If cops can’t make a freakin common sense decision it has a whole lot to do with it! I don’t care who called them, it was their brain on stupid when they got there.
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