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    Bad Laws, Rules and Verdicts

    Wind Blows Car Door Shut with Baby Inside. Mom Calls 911 for Help, is Ticketed for Child Abuse

    June 17, 2017

    Omaha, Nebraska: A woman taking her niece out of the SUV on Tuesday afternoon was shocked when the wind blew…

    Bad Laws, Rules and Verdicts

    How We Have Criminalized Walking

    June 16, 2017

    This comes to us from law professor and transportation activist Michael Lewyn, who recently published “The Criminalization of Walking” in…

    Predator with a Popsicle? Our Crazy Fear of The Ice Cream Man

    June 15, 2017

    As I wrote in this month’s Reason Magazine: We All Scream for the Ice Cream Man’s Head The idea that…

    It Is Really Easy to Let Your Kids Walk, Play and Bike Outside — The SECOND Time

    June 13, 2017

    Melissa James is a 38-year-old copywriter in Yorktown, VA, wife of a Department of Defense analyst and mother of two…

    “Children of Any Age Should Not Go Into Public Restrooms Alone”

    June 12, 2017

    These tips from HealthyChildren.org for when a child can go to a public restroom are not just hilarious and ridiculous,…

    The Luke Heimlich Case: Should We Brand Juvenile Sex Offenders Forever?

    June 11, 2017

    This piece originally appeared at the National Association for Rational Sex Offense Laws site. What Luke Heimlich did was wrong…

    Mom Lets Baby Wait in Car THREE MINUTES and Is Charged with “Contributing to the Delinquency of a Child”

    June 9, 2017

    This persecution of parents who love their kids and make the rational decision to let their them wait in the…

    “School’s Out for Summer” — What’s Wrong with This Ad?

    June 8, 2017

    Nothing wrong with playing, chatting and creating online. But still — anyone else appalled by this ad? (And yes, we…

    Less Than A Year After “MUST DO” Baby Sleep Guidelines, The American Academy of Pediatrics Pulls a Switcheroo

    June 7, 2017

    Just try to figure out what the American Academy of Pediatrics and this spokeswoman are saying in this Good Morning…

    Maryland’s “Free-Range Mom” Danielle Meitiv Throws Her Hat into the Ring

    June 6, 2017

    You know the old saying: When life hands you a CPS investigation (or two), make lemonade. That’s what Danielle Meitiv…

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