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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Big difference between hovering and knowing where your kids are. These parents didn't know where their kids were. They were dropped at the park and were supposed to be home at a certain time. The kids were wandering around SS in the opposite direction from where they live (so they weren't walking home) when the guy called 911. They were within blocks of DC. And their parents never called the police even when the kids had been missing for hours. That's very different from hovering. Honestly, walking your kids to the park and sitting on a bench reading is different than hovering. Hovering would be climbing on the playground equipment. [/quote]

And the children were apparently sitting in a police car a few blocks from the family home, yet the parents were unable to find them. This is the part that is confusing to me. In my neighborhood, if a parent couldn't find a kid, the neighbors would be out looking. We've had the classic situation in our neighborhood where everyone was out looking for a kid, and he was found asleep somewhere in his own house, but nevertheless, people were out looking. My kids played with other neighbor kids all over our neighborhood, but they knew their boundaries and when they were under about ten or so, they were always in a group and within eyesight of someone's parent.

Is their neighborhood so huge that parents plus neighbors didn't see the kids sitting in a marked police car only blocks from home?

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