Anonymous wrote:Whether or not I agree that these kids should be able to do this type of thing, I can't imagine doing it after the first instance of CPS involvement. Seems kind of stupid and asking for trouble.

Well, you can focus on the parents, or you can focus on the police and CPS -- you know, the law. I think the actions of the police and CPS are the issue here.

Whether or not I agree that these kids should be able to do this type of thing, I can't imagine doing it after the first instance of CPS involvement. Seems kind of stupid and asking for trouble.

Anonymous wrote:So why didn't the kids speak up and demand to call their parents? Why come the kids didn't fight back, run off, refuse to go, use their cell phone to immediately call their parents? What happened to the mature, knows what to do even In a frightening situation 10 yr old?

Imagine now it wasn't the police who came along and took the kids.
Clearly the 10 yr old and 6 yr old aren't equipped to deal with situations like the parents believed.

But actually it was the police.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatever.

+1 Everyone was doing what they thought was right.

I have no interest into getting into another long thread about this again. OP just wants to find fault. Boring.

I'm not the OP, and I want to find fault. You know all those worries about kids being abducted by strangers? For these kids, that worry became reality yesterday, thanks to a busybody neighbor.

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/28783266/free-range-kids

Anonymous wrote:So why didn't the kids speak up and demand to call their parents? Why come the kids didn't fight back, run off, refuse to go, use their cell phone to immediately call their parents? What happened to the mature, knows what to do even In a frightening situation 10 yr old?

Imagine now it wasn't the police who came along and took the kids.

Clearly the 10 yr old and 6 yr old aren't equipped to deal with situations like the parents believed.

Clearly the biggest threat to these kids are the police and CPS.

So why didn't the kids speak up and demand to call their parents? Why come the kids didn't fight back, run off, refuse to go, use their cell phone to immediately call their parents? What happened to the mature, knows what to do even In a frightening situation 10 yr old?

Imagine now it wasn't the police who came along and took the kids.

Clearly the 10 yr old and 6 yr old aren't equipped to deal with situations like the parents believed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:6 is way too young to be without adult supervision.

She is with her 10 year old brother walking to the park.

A 10 yr isn't supervision.

When I was 6, I walked a mile to school by myself or with my brother, who was 8. This was the absolutely, totally, completely, 100% normal thing to do. Everybody's jaws would have dropped in disbelief if you had said that a 6-year-old and a 10-year-old need adult supervision to walk to the park on a sunny weekend afternoon in spring.

Before these two instances - was there prior involvement w CPS?

Anonymous wrote:Whatever.

+1 Everyone was doing what they thought was right.

I have no interest into getting into another long thread about this again. OP just wants to find fault. Boring.

Whatever.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:6 is way too young to be without adult supervision.

She is with her 10 year old brother walking to the park.

A 10 yr isn't supervision.

Anonymous wrote:6 is way too young to be without adult supervision.

She is with her 10 year old brother walking to the park.

6 is way too young to be without adult supervision.

I really don't understand why? At 10, I would walk to the park and bicycle to the mall with my younger sister. This was in the early 1980s and crime was higher during that time.

The Silver Spring family with "free-range" children were involved again with the police and Child Protective Services. Seems someone reported to the police that the kids were playing alone in a park. I can only imagine the panic that the parents felt when the kids were not home at their agreed time. The parents spent about 2 hours looking for them.

I thought the kids were supposed to carry cards saying they were "free-range" kids. Did I miss that in the article?


http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/montgomery-county-free-range-children-taken-into-custody-again/2015/04/12/39987b08-e188-11e4-905f-cc896d379a32_story.html?hpid=z2