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There will be parents out there who just know that their 3 and 6 year old kids can walk to/from the park all by themselves.  Or that their toddlers are fine playing in the cul de sac all by themselves.

I think that the 6 and 10 year old in question could have walked to/from a neighborhood suburban park on neighborhood sidewalks without raising too many eyebrows.  Even those who noticed would probably have kept their noses out of it.  But these kids were allowed to walk across town to get to/from this park and they crossed busy streets in the process - I think that is where the parents in this situation "jumped the shark".  It is not something that most reasonable parents would have allowed their kids to do and now they can deal with CPS, courts, etc.

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In other words, you think that you are a better judge than the children's own parents of what the children are capable of.

Not to mention that the children weren't crossing the Beltway, or walking home through Fort Apache the Bronx at midnight. They were walking a mile home, on a Saturday afternoon, through an area where literally thousands and thousands of people walk all the time, and the big streets all have sidewalks, pedestrian signals, and crosswalks. Maybe you think, even so, that it's not safe. But your opinion does not turn the parents' actions into child neglect, any more than my opinion of some actions you might take would turn your actions into child neglect.[/quote]

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