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Free country where a 10 year old kid can’t even walk alone. Meanwhile in Germany parents of 6 year olds are heavily encouraged by school to let kids walk to school alone and stop being such a cry babies because nothing is gonna happen and they should learn to be independent.
Also why did they arrest her? In my country when the state thinks you committed a smaller crime and there’s no reason to believe you’re gonna fly they just send you a letter.
Land of the free, home of the brave or something. Doesn't sound very free or brave to me though. More like government mandated helicopter parenting.
It's Georgia
At 10 I was riding my bike into town, 2.5mi, on roads with limits as high as 50mph.
Sometimes I'd ride my bike in on a Sunday, get a lift home, skip the bus from school, walk to my friend's house, play Nintendo for an hour, and ride my bike home. I'd get there the same time the bus would drop me off and I got to play Nintendo for an hour.