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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't care whether people don't like them, think it is a scam or a set up. The fact is kids should be able to walk to and from locations when parents decide they can. Not the government. [/quote]
The problem is these are the sand parents who will cry wolf if/when something happens to their kids. That free range garbage will be out the window and they will be crying foul play. Claiming that the government services did not step in/respond.  
People who are looking for causes- law suits are committed only insofar as they can stir up trouble in any direction. 
Like it or leave it the government steps in a lot in how we rasie our kids. Truancy laws, vaccinations, occupancy restrictions. This is not unprecedented. 
My advice: take your kids to SW where we live. There are kids roaming the streets all day/night. And cops don't care. Or- continue to make a selective stink in silver spring. You know- where you can free range with other white kids.[/quote]

Actually if you take them anywhere but around here you will be fine. We are a military family and this is the only area we have lived where kids walking to a park constitutes neglect. If you check the comments on the msn links, people think we are insane. It is just that people around here that think it is normal.

And no I don't think it is okay for the government to step in on this issue. Make it a federal law across the board if it is that big of a safety issue.  Don't allow one area full of paranoid helicopter parents dictate some local CPS to overstep their boundaries. But you realize normal parents would go ape-shit of having to keep their kids supervised every second as ridiculous. [/quote]

Actually if you take your kids anywhere in MoCo, you are also just fine to let them roam. It's only the Meitivs who seem to keep running into problems. What does that tell you?[/quote]

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