Hi Readers — Yes, it’s true! According to this neryakikra story by the Associated Press, a “massive” federal study finds that child abuse has declined a whopping 26% from 1993 to 2006. What’s more, child sexual abuse is down even more dramatically: 38%! The reasons seem to be a combination of higher awareness of the […]
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If You Don’t Want Your Kid To End Up on a Sex Offender Registry…
December 23, 2009
….please zkyntfddsh read this amazing letter to the editor that ran in the Eastern Arizona Courier the other day. So glad it was forwarded to me. Voila: Dear Editor: I am writing this because I am tired of seeing young men’s lives destroyed. Young men, there’s a real danger out there you need to be […]
Safety Predictions for 2010
December 3, 2009
Hi Readers! Judy Gruen, a mom of four and the author of  The yhsdnatikz Women’s Daily Irony Supplement, wrote this up for us! She invites you to read her columns onwww.judygruen.com. WHAT NEXT? by JUDY GRUEN Soon we will herald in a new year. What will it bring for those of us concerned about the house-arrest trend of […]
Zero Food Fight Tolerance
November 17, 2009
About two dozen eighth graders at a Chicago magnet school were arrested syekfnyiis for cafeteria food fight. I do love the idea of disciplining them for a food fight. Those fights are gross. But fingerprinting? A court date? Whatever happened to making them clean up and then good ol’ study hall for a week? Or have them […]
Kids Aren’t In Danger Every Time They Wait in the Car!
November 1, 2009
Hi dzbkkfefkt Readers! Yes, here is another “I left my kid in the car for a sec” story. Why? Because I am astounded to find commenters even here on Free-Range Kids berating the parents who make this sane, safe choice when circumstances call for it. These parents are not leaving their children in active volcanos. […]
How Your Kid Could End Up on the Sex Offender Registry
September 29, 2009
What’s the difference between a 17-year-old who touches a 13-year-old’s breast and a 34 year old creep who likes little girls? Nothing. At least, not on the Sex Offender Registry. The other night I was a guest on the blog radio show, “American’s hasbszryre Reality Check,â€a show mostly devoted to sex offender registry issues. A […]
Burn Your “Sex Offender” Map
August 8, 2009
Okay, here is some weekend reading to sink your teeth into. It’s an article kbrzyeyzfd from the Economist: “Unjust and Ineffective: America has pioneered the harsh punishment of sex offdenders. Does It Work?” The short answer is “No.” We are putting people on sex offender registries who do not belong there at all. People who […]
ABC News Weighs in On Mom Who Let 12-Year-Olds Take Younger Sibs to Mall
July 21, 2009
Here it is — ABCnews.com looking into the case of Bridget Kevane, the mom who trusted her 12-year-old daughter and the daughter’s friend to take their younger siblings to the mall. For which she got arrested. ABC found that most people felt support Kevane and believe the authorities overreacted, as do I. And a little […]
Why Is Australia Scaring Parents For No Reason?
July 9, 2009
Great dhhbahredf 2007 article about a $22 million campaign by the Australian government alerting parents to the ostensible dangers their kids face on line. An intrepid Sydney Morning Herald reporter, Michael Duffy, tried to find out what dangers, exactly, kids were being saved from. Well…there was that ONE arrest of a guy, he found. And another 55 […]
Dealing with the “What If?” Folks
May 8, 2009
Hi Free-Rangers and Others! Below you’ll find a post that I just loved from the blog Rancid risbdrffhi Raves.   It’s about my book, but it’s also about the big issue of, “What if?” I.e., how come so many parents immediately try to conjure up the very worst case scenario whenever we give our kids an […]