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10-year-old walks alone a mile away from Georgia home, leading to his mother's arrest
(www.nbcnews.com)
I hope she wins. This is pathetic
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When I was a kid, I literally walked 43 miles from my home one day. Took 15 hours. I just had my parents pick me up when I got to the pizza place - no big deal.
When the authorities make a misstep, they often keep going for fear of looking weak and leaving space for future exploitation
I uaed to walk 4 miles to school and even further back (because i walked with a friend to their house and then to kine on the way home) instead of taking the bus. I would keep my bus money and use it to buy drinks and stuff. This was only 20 years ago. Much has changed.
When I was a kid in ft worth I used to ride my bike across town and all over downtown and nobody batted an eye
Same experience and same metro-area.. It was the 90s, but still, I'd be gone on my bike across town for hours. I lived in Grapevine.
My time was early/mid 70s
I used to have to walk a mile to the friggin school bus stop, shit is ridiculous nowadays.
Yikes.
In 1997; I was walking about 2 miles to and from school. Unsupervised. I had a house key on my neck and was a latchkey kid in third grade. I obediently walked to and from school directly from home; meeting the crossing guard a half mile from school twice a day; as I had to cross a major 4 lane divided highway.
This really feels insane, even for this day and age. Which makes me think we’re probably not getting the entire story.
If true, it’s downright silly. Back in the 80’s, we were out of the house unsupervised for hours. Parents just about encouraged you take candy from friendly strangers or to hitch a ride in their cool white van with ‘Free Puppies’ written on it. As long as you made it home without broken bones, they didn’t care. Ask anyone from my generation.
I think it’s all on the parent saying they didn’t know where the kid was, the kid saying his parents didn’t know where he was.
I wonder how my parents would have responded when I was little, “in the woods”? “Up the street at one of the neighbors”? Or “I don’t know”?
I mean when I was a kid in the late 80s/early 90s on weekends my parents generally had no clue where I was as long as I was home by dinner. and if I wasn't going to be home by dinner then to call and say so. payphones were everywhere, just call and let them know.
I mean hell I remember one time my friends and I were in some store a good 5 miles away from home and my parents happened to be shopping there at the same time. my mom comes up to me and says "I saw a tshirt you might like, do you want it?" and showed me the shirt and I said sure and that was it "see you later tonight".
That’s great. We weren’t near civilization so on a bike somewhere in the neighborhood or somewhere back in the woods.
My parents put a huge bell on the side of the house and basically said be home for dinner, make sure you hear the bell.
80s were the best. Too bad the consequences of the 80s are so horrendous.
Things about the 80s were pretty great, but the widespread parental neglect is probably why following generations are having this reaction.
But that was us, and we KNOW it was ok!
The elementary school closest to us is about a mile away. Kids in my neighborhood walk to school.
What the hell is wrong with letting a kid walk a mile away??
Probably somebody got elected on a "protect the children" and did this to prove it. It's not like it effects the jackass responsible for it. It's performance child protection and it's pretty common.
A mile is nothing ... what the actual fuck? I used to be gone for hours god knows where.
I had a bike. I can assure you, I went MILES away. At 10, I was probably riding 1-5 miles to friends houses or to neighborhoods for selling whatever nonsense my scouts program was selling.
Just be home when the street lights come on!
When I grew up, we were "free range kids".
My family had a healthy idea of limits, closer to the "free range" philosophy, before such a term was required.
Our neighbors across the street, however, were the prototype for helicopter parents.
While my sibling and I gained confidence and navigational skills by biking around our confusing neighborhood before the days of GPS, the neighbor's kids weren't allowed to go down the street unsupervised. My siblings and I stood alone on the corner bus stop, but the neighbor's mom sat in her car and only released her kids when the bus had arrived.
At the time, my parents made fun of theirs for holding such a tight leash. We also pitied the kids because they panicked about being "lost" when my siblings brought them on a walk around the block.
But now I see kids sitting in cars at bus stops as the norm. And of course, stories like the above article go to show that the helicopter style has won (for the time being.) The people who were raised to fear everything outside their front yard are now parents themselves.
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Or, as they were called then, kids. This modern stranger danger and always track your kids is insane, everyone be living like the sky is falling every ten seconds.
Keeping a population in a state of perpetual fear is by design. It's the first and an essential step to being able to manipulate people into voting against their own interests
It also serves to keep people isolated, and prevents kids from forming lasting relationships that can later be used to discuss and compare issues and organize.
How we have lost perspective. When I was that age I was forced to walk to school, a distance of about 1.5 miles.
Forced, mind you, because if you were considered "too close" to the school you were not eligible to ride the bus. Other than the land directly adjoining the school grounds, the roads I had to use also did not have sidewalks. The number of children killed, maimed, or injured by this during the years I attended that school were, to my knowledge... zero.
I too had to walk to school, but with sidewalks! I do feel if there's a house, it should have a sidewalk.
Love sidewalks.
My kids not only had sidewalks but after enough complaints we got the city to clear the snow when needed!
Shit dude I remember walking further than that, at that age...crossing a busy 4-lane (state) highway (without a crosswalk or a sidewalk)...to buy pogs and rent video games.
That was only...30 years ago. Holy shit that was 30 years ago.
Can I offer you a cane in these trying times?
laughs in lower back pain
Nah man, I'm good, I can walk just as far now to the nearest dispensary. And there's sidewalks and crosswalks. And some cars that'll stop themselves if they're about to hit a pedestrian.
The initial reports of this made it sound much worse, now it seems so tame this charge borders on ludicrous. I walked about 2 miles to my bus stop as a kid with no side walk and it was ABSOLUTELY unsafe, but we didn't have a choice as the roads were no outlet and too narrow for a bus to get into my neighborhood. I never saw a kid get hit, but I knew of multiple adults that were hit by a car with a few fatalities. I still think this Georgia story sounds dumb, so either we're being deprived of details or the police are being ridiculous.
Why is it so hard for you to stand behind your own words? If you can't do it, then stop replying?
And American police being ridiculous is just so off-character to them that that option seems just impossible, doesn't it?
They asked me to put my hands behind my back and all that stuff, and I realized what was going on.
Because she was too dangerous to be cuffed normally, or not cuffed at all?
Als I hate this doubly for the kid. Your mom getting arrested for your slightest sign of independence will fuck you up.
Als I hate this doubly for the kid. Your mom getting arrested for your slightest sign of independence will fuck you up.
This so much. So much bullshit is being done to "protect children" and it actually hurts them.
That poor kid. I already was upset thinking about them having to see Mom get arrested. I didn't even consider the fact that the youngest is probably blaming himself.
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Happened in the woke liberal capital of.. * checks notes *
... Georgia?
~~Small town~~ rural Georgia, no less!
I crossed out "small town" because Mineral Bluff is too small to even count as incorporated. Literally all that's there, in terms of businesses, is a gas station, a Dollar General, and whatever the Hell this is.
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America: where young people are coddled until they're 18 then it's either sell your body, sell your soul, or both multiple times over just to survive.
Or get sold into sexual slavery, and if you get pregnant by your rapist, fuck you, you're having his baby.
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I'm confused... shouldn't this be happening in one of those liberal nanny states where big government is supposed to be all up in your business?
Oh, right... those people need to tell you how to raise YOUR kids, but don't you dare tell them how to raise theirs...
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