How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations

Re:How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations by talmand on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:01AM (#13550932)

Rivers of high-speed traffic in the city? Dude, I feel like I can't allow my kids to walk alone to school that's four blocks over in my own neighborhood without some nanny state enabler calling child services on me.

Hell, I don't let them play in the front yard and wonder how long it'll be before I get the knock on the door because I let them play unsupervised in the fenced backyard with a trained full-grown German shepherd on watch.

Things are seriously screwed up.

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Re:How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations by basseq on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:15AM (#13551031)

And then it spitballs. The police / CPS will listen, and we've all heard horror stories about "good people" getting slapped with lawsuits, fines, community service[1], or straight up losing their kids[2] because of a system gone mad.

And the sad part is that we've been conditioned to it. The parent that lets their kids roam with that kind of societal norm and social pressure? You start wondering...

[1] http://www.salon.com/2014/06/03/the_day_i_left_my_son_in_the... [2] http://www.sunherald.com/news/special-reports/dhs/article950...

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Re:How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations by talmand on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:58AM (#13560167)

From the second article: "... adding that forging a document to take away a child is almost as severe an allegation as kidnapping."

Holy shit, that is fucking kidnapping. But somehow because a government worker does it somehow it's not the same thing?

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