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Sadly, those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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I am 100% certain that when George Santayana said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," he was not talking about children walking home from the park.

Not to mention that I think it's fine for a six-year-old and a seven-year-old to walk around by themselves precisely because I can remember the past.[/quote]

It's nice that you had a lovely childhood into which tragedy never stepped. Some of us had personal experience with kids whose lives were ruined or ended because parents did not supervise appropriately. 
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You may make decisions for yourself, based on your personal experiences, which I am sorry about. You do not get to make decisions for other people, based on your personal experiences.

I have personal experience with people who died in car wrecks. And yet I don't call CPS when a parent puts a child into a car.[/quote]

Our village creates standards of safety that take account of the entirety of various experiences. Someone who has never had a bad experience may be unaware of certain possibilities. Others who have experience can point out bumps in the path to those who come behind. We don't require each and every person to discover each and every bump on the road on their own.

If you saw a parent consistently putting children into the car without any kind of safety restraint, I would hope you would speak up for those children and call CPS. We do what we can to lower risk when we can, and seat belts and car seats have been shown to reduce death and injury in car accidents, so we do have regulations about safety restraints for children in cars. We have decided as a society that we should require adults and children to wear seat belts and sit in car seats.

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See I wouldn't call the police on that. I would leave the mom a note on her windshield or mention the car seat laws so she wouldn't get in trouble. Either way, it is not a reason to call police. And in this situation there are actually legit car seat laws. No laws on kids going to the park.  How the police officer was able to detain these kids is beyond me. [/quote]

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