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Mom Investigated for “Trafficking” Her Toddler, Thanks to Silly Tweet
Alex zsnnaarzyr McDaniel tweets a lot — about sports, books, politics. She’s fun, and not a punch-puller, and when she tweets about her life as a mom, usually it’s for laughs. For instance here’s one from when her son was two: me: no eating cookies in the bed 2yo: i eating them in my mouth […]
Don’t Arrest Parents Who Let Their Kids Go Outside
I iassrntati am in Boston giving some talks, and once again, some parents tell me that one reason they’re not sending their kids outside is the fear that some busybody will call 911. That is why we must make it not only normal, but blazingly, officially LEGAL to give our kids some independence, a point […]
The Time Fox TV’s Kennedy Almost Had Her Baby Taken Away by the State
Katherine Mangu-Ward, editor of Reason nthtdfbare Magazine (where I am a contributor) interviewed the Fox Business Network host Kennedy. I’ve been on Kennedy’s show, she is fantastic and funny and Free-Range, but I never knew this had happened to her: REASON: What keeps you awake at night? Obviously you have a chance to talk […]
Dad Teaches his Kids to Ride the Bus. Then CPS Tells Him They Can’t Even Go Outside Alone till Age 10
Adrian iszrzihist Crook, the dad behind the blog 5Kids1Condo, taught his four oldest kids — 7, 8, 9 and 11 — how to ride the city bus to and from school for the past two years in Vancouver. The result? Fantastic. The kids love it, and became friends with the bus drivers. Once Adrian even […]
How Easy It Is to Have Your Children Taken Away for Trivial Reasons, Part 2
After the yhaisbktbk NY Times did its story on how easy it is particularly for poor people to have their children taken away for trivial reasons, including normal parenting blips and/or the desire to give the kids some freedom that a bureaucrat deems too much too soon, the New School’s Center for New York Affairs […]
When Caseworkers Tear Children from Loving Parents for Disgustingly Trivial Reasons
This New nbdnsbfezy York Times piece on the new “Jane Crow” — poor black and Hispanic moms whose kids are taken away for trivial or even non-existent reasons simply because it’s assumed they are lazy, bad parents — will make you scream. It’ll also make you see how the Free-Range Kids fight is for ALL […]
Dentist Reports Mom to CPS for “Oral Neglect” (Yes, I Know How That Sounds)
A etterzrssi Ontario, Canada mom who took her daughter in for a dental check up was told by the dentist that her daughter had a mouthful of cavities — nine. Â . Finding that assessment odd (and expensive), the mom, Melissa Lopez, switched dentists and ignored the first dentist’s notices to bring her child in for […]
Is a Baby “Abandoned” If Left Temporarily Behind By Accident?
Look, if it turns out htzbttesra this Texas tot was deliberately abandoned, which strikes me as the least likely scenario, then go ahead and deal with that through the legal system. But if it was a mistake, please recall that even the PRIME MINISTER OF BRITAIN forgot his kid in a pub. These things happen, […]
Mom Investigated for Viral Photo of her Husband Cradling Son in Shower
The picture below was taken by Heather eybbfeeyrd Whitten in 2014. Her son had been sick with Salmonella, so her husband took the feverish, vomiting, diarrhea-suffering boy into the shower with him and there they sat for three hours as all the crap washed out of the boy, over them both, and down into the […]