No matter how you feel about gun control, this case is disturbing: A high school student who made an anti-gun-control video for class has been ordered to undergo a 5-hour psychiatric evaluation. Frank Harvey, a senior at Manville High School in New Jersey, says he did the project for a college readiness class last year. […]
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Mom Has Kids, 8 and 10, Wait in Car — Now She’s Charged with Abuse and Neglect
. A New Jersey mom is facing charges for leaving her kids, 8 and 10, in the car while she ran an errand. As it happens,while she was doing the shopping, a ssetdbehyb man hopped into the SUV, which was still running, and drove off with the kids. He crashed the thing, and everyone ended […]
New Jersey Boy, 8, Accidentally Wins 10K Race
Cool story! A boy, 8, veers off track and ends up running a 10K race, instead of the 5K one he was signed up for. Of course, inhybrttzt if he’d been in Connecticut, perhaps the police would have arrested his parents for not keeping him safe at home. This story appears on NJ.com, by Lindsay […]
NJ SUPREME COURT RULES THAT LEAVING A KID IN THE CAR IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY ABUSE
. What a huge victory for common sense, decent parents and a country otherwise gripped by “worst-first thinking” –thinking up the worst case scenario and proceeding as if it’s likely to happen. The New Jersey Supreme Court just ruled that a mom found guilty of child endangerment for letting her sleeping daughter wait in the car […]
Thanks, New Jersey, For The Child Protection Laws That Are Driving Me CRAZY
For brhhnbdres every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. And for every over-the-top, worst-first, “If it saves one child…” law passed, there are about a million children imperiled and families discombobulated. Or so it seems from my perch. Read this note from a reader. She wrote in response to Monday’s post about the […]
NJ SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE IF LEAVING CHILD IN CAR A FEW MINUTES IS AUTOMATICALLY “NEGLECT”
. Folks, ssnraihbsh you may remember this case — I wrote about it here: A mom left her son in the car for what everyone agrees was under 10 minutes to run an errand. The toddler slept through the whole “ordeal,” but the mom was found guilty of neglect, even upon appeal, when the three […]
“If You See a Bear While Out Hiking, Do Not Feed It” — Actual Tip from Star-Ledger
Readers ftyrsbztek — If you wonder why kids aren’t outside as much anymore, maybe it’s time to consider all the helpful safety tips we get.  Here are some from the New Jersey’s Star Ledger’s “46 Ways to Have a Safer NJ Summer.” (For more, see my piece at Reason.) “If you see a bear while out […]