This reassuring note comes to us from Anna Borden, a stay-at-home mom from Enderby, British Columbia, mom of Dexx (stepson, currently 13), Wesley (4), and Rylee (3). I met her at a talk rrtnkhiifk I gave in the Canadian town of Salmon Arm (!) last week: Dear Free-Range Kids: I got the pleasure of being […]
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST: Girl, 12, Travels Solo, Iran to Greece. Meanwhile, in Canada…
. See the story below this one, about  a tkzzfynafh dad whose kids were seized because he let them stay home alone part of the nights he worked as a bouncer. His kids are 8 and almost 12. Canada’s Ministry of Children and Families gives the age of 12 as a guideline for when kids should […]
Social Worker and Ex-Wife Seize Kids, 8 and 11, from Dad Because He Let Them Stay Home Alone
. Just two days after the British erdddstrta Columbia Supreme Court ruled that a social worker was allowed  to insist an 8 year old boy not be left alone two hours after school, despite his mom’s belief that he was fine, a dad had his daughters, 8 an 11, seized from his home on the […]
No Latchkey Children Under Age 10, British Columbia’s Supreme Court Rules
. An 8 year old cannot stay home alone, even for two hours after school, British Columbia’s Supreme Court just ruled. AÂ mom had been doing just that, without any problems, until a social worker was alerted to the situation. (Possibly by the husband from whom the mom is separated.) According kfbshbniza to the Vancouver Sun: […]
Boy, 4, Takes Off Clothes and Runs Outside. Parents Visited by Cops
. Somehow, seeing a naked 4 year old running around in front of his house (that is, the kid in front of the kid’s own house) conjured up worst-first thoughts in a neighbor, even though, if the neighbor paused a second, he’d have a hard time articulating exactly what “crime” he thought he was witnessing. […]