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Family

Apr. 30, 2015

Whether 'free-range' parents are negligent just depends

Last December, Maryland police officers took two children - ages 10 and six - into custody because they were walking home alone from a park. Should the parents face criminal charges? By Joseph Sorrentino


By Joseph Sorrentino


Last December, Maryland police officers took two children - ages 10 and six - into
custody because they were walking home alone from a park. Police picked up the children
about halfway through their one-mile journey. The children weren't carrying their
laminated card reading, "I am not lost. I am a free-range kid." Whether that would
have made a difference to the pol...

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