Free-range parents cited but not charged

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I'm thinking of the five year olds I know personally, several of whom I watch on a regular basis when they play with my kids in our house/yard and they really do need supervision and make goofy/bad choices quite a bit, despite being good kids in general.

OK, so maybe those five-year-olds can't. Or maybe they could, if they were allowed to, but they're not allowed to. But a blanket statement that five-year-olds are unable to do this does not make sense, since five-year-olds actually do do this.

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I myself did this, in 1966, on suburban streets. All of my friends and family did, as well.

We are all high-functioning, resourceful, hard-working adults now.

But would you let your 5 year old do it now.

No, I would be afraid that somebody would call the police, and then CPS would get involved