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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Setting aside this issue of whether it is right or wrong for the kids to be on their own in this park , I really don't know what the parents were expecting in this situation after what previously happened.  They are well within their rights to advocate to have this law changed, but until it is, they've chosen to live in a place where this is the law, and by disregarding it after their kids were picked up by the police, they are the ones who have set the kids up for an unpleasant interaction with the police.[/quote]

No, they live in a place where there is no clear law against what they are doing. And, when this happened before they ended up with a nonsensical "finding" of "unsubstantiated" child neglect.

In any case, the issue of national debate is not whether these particular people should "learn their lesson" that someone--a neighbor? the cops?-seems to be stalking their children and reporting them to CPS whenever they go outside. It's whether it should be illegal for parents to decide to let their children play alone outside at ages at which, a few decades ago, there was consensus children should be able to walk a few blocks alone.[/quote]

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