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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The very nature of the charge "responsible for unsubstantiated neglect" gives me huge concern.  The fact that any government can hold you legally responsible for something that cannot even be substantiated, or proven with evidence, should alarm everyone, especially when it concerns your children.

Regardless of whether I agree with the parents' decision to free range parent and let the children walk home alone or how they have been giving tv interviews, I cannot agree whatsoever with the government being allowed to charge and find "guilty" without having enough evidence to substantiate the crime.  It's insane, and IMO unconstitutional.  And I am a pretty strict not so free range parent.

I read the OP ed the parents wrote for the Post and I thought it was very well written and presented the parents in a better light than other forms of social media.  I don't agree with people who let their kids eat excessive junk or processed food, or thwt let their kids hunt, or let their kids have too much screen time, or breast fed a 5 year old, or let their kids stay up way too late every night, or who don't vaccinate, or allow their children to get obese, etc., but I don't think that my disagreement trumps their right to parent how they see fit.[/quote]

I agree.  How can we live in a world where you don't have to vaccinate your kids and put other kids at risk, but you aren't allowed to decide if your kids are mature enough to handle walking to a park.  [/quote]

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