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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't really care about the legalities, I care about kids. I have seen the results of hands-off, let the kids be responsible for themselves parenting. So much can go wrong, so quickly and easily, with this type of parenting. Abduction is the very least of the concerns.

Legal or not, parents should be aware of the ramifications of their choices to back off from keeping an eye out for their young children. It's nice to romanticize how much fun it was to roam the city without adults, but reality for a lot of kids was never quite so rosy. Parents should appreciate the complexity and range of what can go wrong for kids who are by themselves.

The fact that something is legal will not protect someone from the bad results of a choice. It may be perfectly legal for people to make bad choices, but it's too bad when children have to live with the results of those choices. [/quote]

However, in fact, the issue in this case is the legality.[/quote]

But the bigger, more important issue is the children.
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Not for you, it isn't. Because they are not your children. Apart from the legality, all we have is parents making choices that you disagree with.[/quote]

So, we, the members of the community, to whom CPS and the police represent, should not care about these children and should not weigh in?  No.  That would mean abdicating our responsibility to ne responsible members of the community. Just as the Ameritech may have abdicated their responsibility to be engaged parents thus requiring police, CPS and community involvement.[/quote]

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