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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A 4 year old playing next door with a neighbor is not a 911 worthy emergency. We live in a society in which neighbors get each other arrested rather than help each other.

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This! Stuff like this happened all the time in my middle class, small town neighborhood growing up. Kids showed up at other people's houses, neighbors would check in with parents (or an older sibling if the parent was at work, which was not uncommon) to make sure they knew the kid was over. The end. Sometimes you'd wind up with a parent or sibling who wasn't great at watching their kid, and neighbors would need to be a bit more vigilant, but people barely even considered this annoying -- the point was to take care of the kids in the neighborhood. No one called the cops.

Now, I actually think there are situations where it would have been good to call the cops, because I also grew up in a time where there was a lot of corporal punishment and I actually wish there had been more social reprobation for doing that. But kids playing at a neighbor's house? On what planet is that even a problem?[/quote]

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