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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.wjla.com/articles/2015/03/silver-spring-parents-charged-with-child-neglect-for-allowing-kids-to-walk-home-alone-112094.html

What a crazy world we live in.  Statistics show the world is safer but yet government now has to decide when we as parents can let them have some independence.  My 11yr old goes up to the park all the time with my 5yr old.  I would be PISSED off if a cop stopped them and someone threatened my kids had to go to foster care while they investigate me.

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Do your kids cross a six-lane highway to get there like these kids did?[/quote]

What six lane highway? Are you suggesting these kids jaywalked across the beltway?[/quote]

From the news reports I saw, the kids' route took them across Georgia Ave. at a point where it expands to six lanes.[/quote]
I would not walk across Georgia Av. myself!! Besides the dangerous traffic it's not the best neighborhood :? [/quote]

Oh give me a break.  I go downtown Silver Spring to shop and eat all the time and have walked along and crossed Georgia Avenue at many different intersections without ever being accosted or witnessing anything that made me uncomfortable.

I'm not sure I would have let my 10 and 6 year old cross the road at Georgia and Coleseville because of the traffic, but they are not the most mature, focussed kids....[/quote]

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