Don't you find it strange that many of the same ones who say it's a parent's "right" to decline vaccination are also those who say the cops should arrest a parent for letting their kids walk home from the park? Walking home from the park is not inherently hazardous. It is theoretically hazardous - just like riding in a car, playing futbol, or playing in the surf. Letting a kid, within reasonable controls, experience the normal hazards of life is not abuse nor neglect.Seth Milner wrote:Thank you.
Yes, I have a point namely to do with the original question posed here. Who is right and who is wrong.
You said (from somebody who rode a city bus to school in the first grade and remembers the only rule to be "be home by dark")
I too used to roam freely when I was a child, from the age of 6 until I got my license.
I thought nothing of being gone from home hours at a time.
Mama never worried about me or the kid who lived next door who was my best friend.learn
Nowadays, as a grown man I hardly will walk anywhere by myself.
I think the neighbors in this case are concerned with the safety of the children as well as are the authorities.
Yes standards change, so do people. I really don't know what is the proper way to express this. The parents have rights, the kids have rights,
but it's like turning your kids loose in a jungle, and sometimes it can be like taking your life in your own hands.
I would hate to read in the news one day that the parents won their case, and later read that the kids were harmed by the evil
that's prevailing in our society. That's my point.
I'm sorry you have bought into the fear culture so much you fear going out by yourself. It must limit your life experiences a lot. But unless you live in some really awful place, I'd say your fear is overblown. Most attacks aren't random, and they aren't from some boogey-man hiding in an alley. Take some training in self-defense, which includes avoiding problems. Get some confidence, based on knowledge and training. Take charge of your life. And teach that to your kids, if any.