United Airlines Lost My Friend's 10 Year Old Daughter And Didn't Care

Re:United Airlines Lost My Friend's 10 Year Old Daughter And... by fleitz on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @04:10AM (#4379900)

I'll second this, in North America everything that is possible to make a child absolutely dependant is done. Parents who try to raise functioning adults are shunned.

There was a national outcry because someone let their 12 year old ride a subway.

You can find most of the roots of helicopter parenting in attachment parenting, the idea that a child should always be touched by their parent until they're about 5.

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Re:United Airlines Lost My Friend's 10 Year Old Daughter And... by fr0sty on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @08:58AM (#4380640)

The child was 9, not 12. http://www.creators.com/opinion/lenore-skenazy/why-i-let-my-...

Futhermore "attachment parenting" is not the antecedent to "helicopter parenting" and certainly does not require constant contact past 1 year of age much less fife.

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Re:United Airlines Lost My Friend's 10 Year Old Daughter And... by pavel_lishin on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @10:39AM (#4381100)

I grew up in Moscow, before I turned ten I would regularly take the subway all the way to school and back. I find it ludicrous and offensive that some of my peers weren't allowed to walk or bike ten blocks to school in a suburban neighborhood.

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Re:United Airlines Lost My Friend's 10 Year Old Daughter And... by fleitz on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @04:25PM (#4382906)

Yeah, there's a strange sense of danger in north america, my father used to play in bomb craters out front of his families' apartment.

Sucks to grow up in a town that makes ball bearings.

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